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Kim Cameron: OpenID is the Most Widely Adopted System for Reusable Internet Identity
The list of brand-name OpenID adopters speaks for itself, with — by some counts — now more than 1 billion functional OpenIDs on the open internet, but for the internet identity movement this quote from Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s Chief Identity Architect, is rather significant: In the last year, OpenID has without doubt become the most…
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Too many messaging clients on my desktop
There is: e-mail (Mail.app) VoIP (Skype) RSS (NetNewsWire, and Mail.app) Twitter (Tweetie) sometimes IM (iChat, others) sometimes IRC (Colloquy) That’s in addition to websites that also act as messaging clients, like Facebook, I’m sorry, how many feeds am I supposed to monitor in how many pieces of software? What about somebody develop a real nice…
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Is OpenID Still User-Centric?
I’m beginning to have second thoughts. Plenty of people (myself included) got involved in internet identity because of its promise to put all of us as individuals at the center of our interactions on-line. To empower individuals to define and offer and enforce their own terms in their interactions with others. To not merely be…
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We’re Saved Thanks to the ITU … Not!
ComputerWeekly reports somewhat breathlessly: Multiple passwords to access computer networks and services may soon be a thing of the past. ITU-T X.1250 provides the ability to enhance data exchange and trust in the identities used worldwide by users, network access devices and service providers using a certificate-based public key infrastructure (PKI) system. This is similar…
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The “Lack Of User Demand” for Internet Identity
Alexander van Elsas left a comment on my post “On Identity Business Models or Lack Thereof” that I feel I have to respond to. It is not the first time I have heard a comment along these lines, so this is more a response to “everybody”, not specifically just to him. He writes: …The underlying…