Upon 2020

Category: Digital Identity

  • The Open Stack or Mere Plumbing?

    So what exactly are we all building here? OpenID? OpenID plus OAuth plus Yadis/XRD(S) plus Portable Contacts plus OpenSocial plus activity streams? That’s a handful, so some have been calling it the “Open Stack“. Is that what we are building? But what about RSS (and syndication in general), iCal feeds, widgets, mash-ups and so forth?…

  • Burton Group: Evaluate Identity Services Now

    Bob Blakley at the Burton Group just published a report on “The Business of Identity Services”. He focuses on services at the identity provider side and outlines possible identity services businesses on the identity provider side in some detail. It seems he is more optimistic about new identity services business opportunities than I am at…

  • On Identity Business Models or Lack Thereof

    Martin Kuppinger, leading analyst of all things digital identity, based in Munich, Germany, called earlier this week for a conversation about business models for identity product and service companies. A good reason to ponder what we’ve learned in the past year or so about those business models or, more correctly, lack thereof. Here are my…

  • Information Cards Have the NASCAR Problem, Too

    Paul Trevithick notes that most users don’t know what the purple information card logo might mean on a website and thus have no incentive to click on it to attempt to log in. That observation is of course correct, and identical to the observation about the OpenID logo: most users don’t know what that means…

  • Phriend Phishing in the Wild

    [Additions in red in response to Bavo’s comments.] Should have guessed that Phriend Phishing was first going to happen to somebody famous. Now, how could that have been prevented? What if: Twitter adopted OpenID as the only way of authenticating. Twitter showed the authenticated OpenID identifier instead of a (possibly made up) user handle on…