Dave Kearns has written a post explaining that, if solutions are architected correctly, there’s no meaningful difference between the two. He writes: We start by defining identity as a group of “personas” (see “Defining identity, persona, role”). Any persona can be made up of a group of personas or roles. Each of those personas can be [...]

It’s a common misconception that Information Card technology is proprietary to Microsoft. In the past there there has been some truth to this, and I realize that most people think it remains true, but it isn’t. Quite the contrary. The design work behind what is now called Information Card technology started about five years ago at [...]

So much for the naïve thought that I’d have time at the Burton Catalyst conference last week to finally blog about two subjects near and dear to my heart that I knew would be covered at the conference. It backfired because they were too topical—all available time was consumed by related conversations. I did manage two [...]

Brett McDowell, executive director of Liberty Alliance, is one of the founding members.

The Pamela Project: a grassroots organization providing community support for web users and administrators who wish to use or deploy information card technologies

The view from Europe: for each category, three outstanding projects and innovations were nominated as finalists.

OpenID provides convenience and power but suffers the problem of all the Single Sign On technologies - the more it succeeds, the more dramatically phishable it will become.

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

Holiday policies to be standardized