Upon2020 (archive)
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Speaking at Berkman’s Identity Mashup Conference
From June 19 through 21, 2006, Harvard University’s Berkman Center is going to host the Identity Mashup Conference, which has this to say: The goal of the conference is to explore the role of identity systems (tools that let users and merchants know whom to trust on the web) in furthering or inhibiting privacy, civil…
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Identity and Reputation
Phil Windley has a very succinct definition for these two related terms: Identity is my story about me. Reputation is your story about me. I hope I’m quoting this right (from memory of a slide that he showed at IIW yesterday.) I really like this definition.
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What I want to discuss at IIW
Somebody asked me yesterday what I want to discuss at IIW. The trouble is, there are too many things I really think we — the community — need to wrap our heads around and sort out. Here’s a list that’s by no means complete: Open-Source InfoCard (first public discussion later today at IIW of a…
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News! Non-Microsoft “InfoCard” Running Inside The Browser!
Just before I met Chuck Mortimore for the first time (and some time after he had left SXIP), I was told by somebody I’m not supposed to identify that he’s one of the smarter guys around (to make this an understatement). If that conjecture needed any proof, here it is: late last night, he released…
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Mike Bijon Proposes “TrustBacks”
In an analogy to Pingbacks, Mike Bijon (aka Moogle1) proposes to create a higher-level specification by which bloggers can express trust in other bloggers. Actually, I think it is about people with a URL expressing trust in each other, closely related to URL-based identity. Certainly he says that it would require an identity system and…