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• No ‘user-centric’ or ‘enterprise-centric’ identity

  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 [...] Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:15 AM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Higgins, Digital Identity, Selectors

• Is Information Card a “Microsoft” Technology?

  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 [...] Read More... Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 4:18 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Higgins, Digital Identity, Selectors

• 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

• The squeaky wheels are oiled for now…

  Whenever things are this quiet, you can be sure that there is a lot of work going on beneath the surface. Just in case you don’t believe me, check out the latest version of the Bandit DigitalMe Selector: I *love* the yellow band that displays the hostname of the Relying Party [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:42 AM from Adventures of an Eternal Optimist | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Selectors, MS/AD/InfoCards/CardSpace, 60183

• 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

• 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

• The need for a “Selector Selector”

  If you start with the premise that people should be able to choose whatever Identity Selector they’d like to use on their favorite computers and devices, and look at the state of selectors that are available or in the works, you realize that, as they say in Maine, you can’t get there from here. Today, lacking [...] Read More... Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 9:54 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Selectors