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• VRM Workshop

  I’m very glad I’ve come to Doc’s VRM workshop at the Berkman center this week Among other things, I’ve met some wonderful new fellow travelers in this promising new space. I was particularly interested in the discussions centered on defining the value proposition for the “v” in VRM–the merchants, manufacturers, and so on that [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:53 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Higgins, Digital Identity, Selectors, VRM08

• Announcing xrds.nett

  After a discussion this afternoon in Second Life and Skype with the dataportability folks, I decided to register a domain name called xrds.net The idea was to create a community-neutral URIspace (registry) for URIs used as XRDS Service Type values.... Read More... Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:35 PM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, opensocial, XRI, OAuth, Digital Identity, dataportability, XRI + i-names, xrds, xrds-simple

• IIW2008a and BONUS: Datasharing Summit

  Two can't-miss events are coming up May 12-15 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California: The Internet Identity Workshop 2008a (http://www.windley.com/events/iiw2008a/) The DataSharingSummit (http://datasharingsummit.com) This is where things happen, so you don't want to miss it. Both events... Read More... Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:29 PM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, opensocial, OAuth, Digital Identity, IIW, XRI + i-names, Web/Tech, iiw2008a, datasharing, datasharingsummit

• Bandit and Higgins win an Award at EIC

  They said: The second special prize goes to open source projects Higgins and Bandit, which we consider the most important open source initiatives in the field of Identity Management. Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:53 AM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Higgins, Digital Identity, Selectors

• RSA 2008 User-Centric Interop

  I’ll be demonstrating: Higgins Firefox-embedded Selector (with hosted i-card service) An experimental Higgins Adobe AIR selector (with hosted i-card service) An experimental Higgins Selector Selector (IE or Firefox or a local mapping demo app can all call the HSS which in turn can launch either Microsoft CardSpace or the Higgins AIR selector) …along with 33 companies and 23 other [...] Read More... Posted Sunday, April 06, 2008 2:02 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Higgins, Digital Identity, Selectors

• Memo to API Service Providers

  This is a followup and expansion to a blog entry I wrote in October 2007, titled "Memo to OAuth Service Providers". Recently, I've been working with a host of companies with open APIs built specifically for 3rd parties to build... Read More... Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 3:03 AM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, social networks, opensocial, OAuth, Digital Identity, facebook, XRI + i-names, api, platform, Web/Tech

• XRDS-Simple 1.0 Draft 1

  Eran Hammer-Lahav announces the first draft of XRDS-Simple 1.0, which is the attempt to make a simplified profile of the XRDS/XRD XML document that is the core of XRI Resolution. Drummond Reed and I, along with other members of the... Read More... Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 1:01 AM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, opensocial, XRI, OAuth, Digital Identity, inames, XRI + i-names, xrds

• New OECD Paper on Personhood and Digital Identity

  The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) this week released At a Crossroads: Personhood and Digital Identity in the Information Society, by Berkman Fellow Mary Rundle and co-authors Bob Blakley, Jeff Broberg, Anthony Nadalin, Dale Olds, Mary Ruddy, Marcelo Thompson Mello Guimarães, and me. The paper describes user-centric “properties of identity” that can guide [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:04 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Digital Identity

• Congratulations to Stefan, Gregg and Christian!

  Stefan and his team are rock stars in privacy-enhancing crypto. Today their technology and patents were acquired by Microsoft as you can read here, here and here. I want to congratulate Stefan personally. Here’s a fellow entrepreneur, and someone I’m honored to call a friend who’s done it all. Developed a deep technology, created a [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:38 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Digital Identity

• Higgins 1.0.0 released!

  Here’s the press release from Eclipse. We’ve been getting lots of congratulations from friends. Which feels great. Thanks to all of you. The next trick will be building awareness and adoption. When you consider that 0% of all websites (or enterprise apps) accept i-cards or OpenID, and 0% of sites issue cards, it’s small wonder [...] Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:12 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: social networks, Higgins, Digital Identity, Selectors

• OpenID + Information Cards…

  Congratulations to my friends at the OpenID Foundation on the news that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board. I’ve been in lots of meetings in the past week and the buzz is everywhere. This happy event has jogged me into writing a few thoughts about OpenID technology and how it fits nicely [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:31 AM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Higgins, Digital Identity, Selectors

• Yahoo OpenID Announcement and IPR Policy

  Yahoo! announced planned support for OpenID (as a OpenID provider) today. Thats thrilling news - congratulations to everyone at Yahoo! for taking the plunge. The timing, however, is not much of a surprise to me... If anyone doubts the importance... Read More... Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:47 PM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Digital Identity, open standards, Intellectual Property, ipr

• Plaxo Implementing I-Names for OpenID

  Its good to see that Joseph Smarr of Plaxo got i-name support (in OpenID 2.0) up and working. I'm pleased to see folks in the OpenID, community but outside of the i-name/xri communities, implementing i-name features. Its a well-appreciated sign... Read More... Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 8:08 PM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, XRI, Digital Identity, i-names, XRI + i-names, plaxo

• XRDS Ancestry

  Just for fun, and because I couldn't make it to OpenIDDevCamp, I thought I'd go back and recount history of the XRDS/XRD schema/concept. The use of the XRD/XRDS for stuff outside XRI was proposed at the IIW 2005 in Berkeley... Read More... Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:07 AM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, XRI, OAuth, Digital Identity, inames, Yadis, XRI + i-names, xrds

• Getting rid of bad habits …

  … 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 [...] Read More... Posted Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:22 AM from Henrik Biering | 0 Comments Filed under: Identity, privacy, identity theft, Digital Identity, Information, community, personal information, Services