Upon2020 (archive)
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Nico Popp: The Business of Identity
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…
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Congratulations, Higgins!
The little mouse is growing up. The Higgins project today announced the first official release, V1.0. Congratulations to Paul, Mary, and the entire Higgins team!
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Identity Joke
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’.
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Speaking at EComm 2008
Lee Dryburgh is putting together what appears to become an awsome conference on the future of the telecommunications industry called eComm2008. It is modestly subtitled "the trillion dollar re-think" — but that’s exactly what it looks like that it will be. It takes place March 12-14 at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. I’ll…
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Should the UK’s Identity Scheme Adopt OpenID Instead?
William Heath writes: Suppliers abandon the NIS and smart money heads to OpenID [The NIS being the National Identity Scheme in the UK.] If that came to pass, what’s next for OpenID? World revolution?