Many have predicted 2008 to be the year where internet identity management would finally take off. Based upon what has happened so far, it it very likely that this prediction will be fulfilled. In February Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and Verisign all demonstrated their support of OpenID by joining the board of the OpenID Foundation. In [...]

… is much more difficult than learning and doing things right in the first place. One of my aspirations for 2008 is to promote the unlearning of bad habits in the area of digital identity. The missing identity layer of the internet has led people to a digital behaviour completely different from the physical world. Even [...]

What could be a better occasion for starting a new blog on user centric identity than last weeks IIW 2007b unconference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View? 150 participants representing companies of all sizes from prospective startups to Yahoo, Microsoft and Google witnessed the official release of new protocol specifications for XRI, OpenID and [...]