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Flickr SUCKS

They are forcing us to merge our identities. I thought they decided not to do this. They let us keep our old way of logging in.
I joined FLICKR not YAHOO.
I really don’t care that they got bought. I do care that my login is being merged.
Does anyone know a good alternative to Flickr/Yahoo that uses [...]

Supermarket 2.0

This is a great video up on Deb’s Blog. Very Funny. Sort of makes you think about all the social things we do online and how silly they are when you translate them back into the real world.

INVITATION: Internet Identity Workshop & IOS

Here is the invitation to the IIW that I will be sending out via e-mail over the next week. Please pass it along to others who might be interested in attending.

Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) May 14-16, 2007
Computer History Museum, Mountainview CA.
In Europe there is a similar event that I am facilitating [...]

Looking at Identity

Andre has a great post that frames the identity zeitgeist.
Ancient History

PKI
Firewalls
My stack vs. your stack
Mooooaaannn

Mould

Strong Authentication
Federation & SSO
blah, blah, blah

Old

User-centric
Attribute Sharing
OpenID phishing
yak, yak, yak

Bold

Delegation
Smart clients
Protocol convergence
Identity meets payments
Just do it!

He has been in the business for 6 years. I thought my 3 years was a long time. The irony of it Mould and Old subjects [...]

OpenID Going Mainstream

OpenID made the front page of the Money Section of USA Today – Today.
From the community they quote, David Recordon, Scott Keveton, Brad Fitzpatrick, and Kim Cameron.
SAN FRANCISCO — An emerging technology standard could be the answer to a major headache: It lets consumers use the same user name and password for hundreds of [...]

AOL launches cool OpenID enabled App: Ficlet

Yesturday walking through the exhibit hall at SXSW the AOL Principle Product Managerd Micheal Cummins came up to me and said he had to show me this new OpenID enabled app – Ficlets.
It is a really cool idea – you get to start a story by writing a ficlet and other people get [...]

Designing Experience is relevant to Identity

Stop Designing Products was the name of the presentation by Peter Merholz from Adaptive Path.
I think the content of this talk is really important for us identity folks to think about. This past week I have been thinking about my own reason for being in identity as a field [...]

I hate hotels!!!!

I just got to South by Southwest in Austin and last night at the Hilton Garden Inn the Internet was free. By the time we checked out our bill was $200 for the night. TODAY a block away at the Hilton the conference hotel for an interactive event. The Internet is $10 A DAY [...]

Web 2.0 quotes – overheard at eTel.

Every time you say Web 3.0 another startup dies.

A Relationship with My School? Maybe if I make enough money.

For those of you who don’t know I went to UC Berkeley. I recently got an e-mail from Ms. Elisabeth Scarborough from Simpson Scarborough a marketing firm specializing in higher education. I was invited to participate in a focus group about ow they could connect with alumni. I was really excited….because I LOVE [...]

Bots gone Bad

I am hanging out in Portland today and the AboutUs offices. They are a wiki of the web. Mark Dilly their community manager just shared with me a fun Identity issue they have. Bots go around and scrape things and then Camel Case them – but some times they mess up. [...]

We had fun in Geneva IdMing

I have been on a whirlwind of a month and not really had a tone of time to Blog. Mike Jones just sent some great pictures of our time at the ITU. Someone found the country placards and gave them out to us while we listened to Lee of Connection Commons give a [...]

OpenID in the NYTimes

I just got a note from my friend Jo Lee a woman active in the Nonprofit Tech sector (she developed citizen speak – the MoveOn for ultra local campaigns) that OpenID was in the NYTimes today.
Here is a link to the article where the reference is. (page one) and Page Two where the reference [...]