Ariel Gordon, in charge of everything identity at France Telecom / Orange, tells me that Orange.fr, their portal, is now OpenID-enabled. This must be one of the largest OpenID Relying Parties so far. Congratulations, Ariel!

Since the beginning of the year, Marc Canter has been churning out a stream of amazing visionary pieces. Today’s installment finally went to far ;-) and I have to blog it. If you want to understand how the internet will become personal over the next decade, you could do a lot worse than reading his…

Scary, scary. From McAfee’s Avert Labs Blog.

Nico Popp at VeriSign has an excellent post titled "The Business of Identity". It might be the best public summary of possible business models that I have seen so far for internet identity, and for OpenID in particular. He enumerates the following distinct models: The IDM Software Business Model: enterprise software The Service Aggregator Business…

Courtesy of Paul Madsen: Two CIOs go into a bar. The first guy says to the second ‘How’s it going?’. Second guy says ‘Sso-sso’.