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• Facebook Connect update

  I have heard a number of great things about Dave Morin at Facebook and have been wanting to chat with him about his views on identity for a while, and yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with him and Josh Elman. For those that don’t know Dave, he is one of the driving [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:56 AM from Identity 2.0 | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Identity Tech

• Passport vs OpenID vs Facebook Connect

  My post yesterday on Facebook Connect raised a few eyebrows. I had a few discussions with people and a comparison of consumer identity solutions past and present may provide some context. (I have excluded InfoCards as I see them as a strong, enterprise grade solution that is currently too heavy for general consumer use.) Passport Microsoft rolled [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:04 PM from Identity 2.0 | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Identity Tech

• Facebook Connect - fatal blow for OpenID?

  At F8 today, Facebook rolled out their Friend Connect platform. With a small amount of code, other sites can integrate the Facebook identity system into their site. The keynote reminded me of early days of Microsoft as they rallied developers to build on their platform by explaining how the platform can help them and being [...] Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:13 PM from Identity 2.0 | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Identity Tech

• Industry Giants join OpenID Foundation Board

  Today Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, VeriSign, and Google have joined the OpenID Foundation as corporate board members. This big news for OpenID. With Yahoo and Google becoming OpenID Providers earlier this year, this is really shaping up to be the year of OpenID. First coverage I see of the announcement is at CNN Money. That’s funny. Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:16 AM from Identity 2.0 | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Identity Tech, Media

• 2008: The year of OpenID?

  This year is starting off with a roll of thunder for OpenID with coverage today from TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Wired and PC World and OpenID positioned as a foundational technology of the DataPortability Workgroup and at the upcoming Social Graph Foo Camp. With the finalization late last year of the OpenID 2.0 specs (included Attribute Exchange); [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:20 AM from Identity 2.0 | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Identity Tech

• Identity 2.0 is insecure?

  Petko D. Petkov a.k.a. pdp wrote a provocative post entitled "Identity 2.0: How Attackers Break into Identity-centric Services". As you can imagine, I was intrigued by such a title. In the post, pdp talks about how the real world is decentralized and then claims that Identity 2.0 is centralized. An Identity 2.0 architecture is similarly decentralized. [...] Read More... Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 5:42 PM from Identity 2.0 | 0 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Identity Tech, Identity Gang