Jerry asks, "What is going to happen as the internet grows beyond web browsing and e-mail to pervade every aspect of our daily lives?"

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 [...]

Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense written by Randy Stross of the NY Times appeared today. The article starts off well and focuses entirely on the problem of passwords. I particularly like the line: In short, we need a log-on system that relies on cryptography, not mnemonics. Very nice. As for the rest of the article, [...]

I can’t tell you excited I was a few weeks ago to get my hands on a copy of this gem. And I wasn’t disappointed. The title pretty much says how the book is positioned. Being a “working ontologist” focused on the area of identity, this was just the book I needed. I wish I [...]

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 [...]

Beautiful word clouds...

Amongst other things, those that attract lots of users.

Information Cards take a familiar off-line consumer behavior – using a card to prove identity and provide information – and bring it to the online world

How does the tendency of information to aggregate relate to digital identity?