The reason Joseph Smarr came to all these identity meetings in recent months was revealed yesterday: Plaxo now does OpenID. This is great news. It’s particularly gratifying for me: Plaxo was one of the very first companies I pitched LID 1.0 (Light-Weight Identity) to, the first URL-based identity scheme, at the end of 2004 —…

OpenID has seen its share of critics who are concerned that their OpenID Provider may collect too much information about them (recent example). In a recent story titled "Which ISPs Are Spying on You?", Wired Magazine now points out a much bigger, and much more immediate privacy problem: privacy policies, or lack thereof, at big…

This is significant. Look at the other winners: Entertainment: YouTube Company: Yahoo! Social: LinkedIn Search: WikiPedia Disruptors: OpenID Web Celeb: Tariq Krim Beta & Stealth: Joost Populizr: TechCrunch That’s great company. Also, "disruptors" seems like the exact right category for it. Time for everybody to figure out how not to be disrupted, or use it…

I have been looking for a real-world example where the following has actually happened: Two or more parties signed a "circle of trust" kind of agreement, where party A performs authentication of some user, and party B relies on the authentication assertion to do something of value. Possible example: a bank outsources web authentication to…

This is the second day of the First European Identity Conference in München, which is taking place at the Forum Deutsches Museum — the granddaddy of all science and technology museums world-wide and still one of the best after more than 100 years. Kuppinger Cole + Partner, the München-based analyst firm, has been doing a…