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Another large adopter. Curiously, they only host identities, but do not accept third-party-hosted identities. I wonder why. (I can think of many reasons, but I wonder which ones apply here.) Here is the WordPress OpenID FAQ.

I’m very happy to hear this from Kim Cameron at Microsoft today: We don’t live in a one-size-fits-all world. Identity involves different – and even contradictory – use cases. Rather than some monolithic answer, we need a metasystem in which the cost (in complexity or money) of using identity is proportional to the value of…

Came across this credit on the about page of the VeriSign Personal Identity Provider website: Thank you!

If you have not read Time Magazine‘s recent "Person of the Year: You" piece, I urge you to get it. It uses Big Words, Bigger Words than I have heard in a long time about anything, technology or otherwise. It is about the fundamental change in the fabric of our society that is caused by…

This story is ROTFL kind of funny. I’m having a hard time trying to stop laughing. … During the run-up to their launch, the schedule slipped significantly, and the CEO (overall a great guy) made the classic engineering management mistake of adding many more developers to the late project in hopes of speeding its completion.…