Passwords seem perfectly natural "because we’ve been trained to repeat them so much"

Amongst other things, those that attract lots of users.

Sean Nolan explains his approach to user-centric identity

Mike (one of those who need no sleep) blogged about Fun Communication's openid idtheft site and I encourage you to read Mike's post and try your personal idtheft immediately. Back here?! Well, you knew all this already, didn't you? But seeing it in action is another thing, I guess. So where does this lead us? Remember the " openid dogfight " from September 2007? I too think that we need a spectrum of solutions. I agree that openid is for when an RP has "trivial" security requirements, but I think

An amazing array of vendors and organizations

May 12-14 in Mountain View

People don't always first see and experience things in the workplace...

Common identifiers that accrue reputation across social networking and blog sites will knock your socks off.

Users with a Yahoo! account - all 248 million of them - will be able to sign in to any website that supports OpenID 2.0...

This Blogger enhancement doesn't nag and doesn't torment. It gives us a carrot, not stick