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  • WordPress does OpenID

    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.

  • Kim: No one-fits-all in identity

    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…

  • Thanks, VeriSign

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

  • Big Words: Time Magazine on the Person of the Year — 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…

  • Of Books and Myths

    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.…