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Identity Futures Dinner in South Bay Tonight

Sorry for this late notice on the blog but I just figured out where we are eating.
At the Internet Identity Workshop 2 weeks ago one of the session was about the Identity Futures work that we started last fall. We went over the events that we developed – see here.
John Kelly my collaborator [...]

Identity Talk at Net Squared Year Three

Here are the relevant links from my talk on Identity at Net Squared.
US, Our Organizations and The Web: Leveraging Identity Tools for Collaboration

Why is user-centric Digital Identity Important?
Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next Generation Internet 2003, Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, Steven Foster.
OpenID
OpenID
Data Linking
Standards
XRI Wikipedia at OASIS
XDI Wikipedia at [...]

Data Sharing Summit Notes

The Second Data Sharing Summit was a great success here are all the notes summarized along with the links to the wiki. If you were in a session feel free to add more content to the wiki. We are sending out a survey in the next day and are currently planning on moving ahead [...]

Chris & Chris on Data Portability

Chris Mesina has a great post up about data portability.
1) It dives into the semantic meaning of the phrase and issues it raises about the actual nature of what needs to be built – is it data a physical thing that is ported around? or is it a digital thing that can be copied [...]

Comparing the “Openness” Announcements

I just saw this image of a chart.
it has the name of the company down the side

Yahoo! – not sure what it was called
Google – Open Social + next week social connector
MSFT – Mesh
AOL – OpenID, AIM portability
Facebook – Connect
MySpace – Data Avalability

Smaller co’s/platforms

People Aggregator
Ning
LinkedIn
White Lable Social Networking App X.
Drupal
WordPress
etc…

Then across the top is [...]

PARTY!!! after IIW / before DSS Party hosted by Chi.mp

So this year after the Internet Identity Workshop there is going to be the Data Sharing Summit – in between is going to be the Chi.mp Happy Hour – in honor of Decentralized User-Centric Identity.
It is FREE (if you RSVP) from 6pm to 8pm Wednesday May 14th at Temptations, 288 Castro Street, Mountain [...]

IIW and DSS retweeter set up on Twitter: follow IIW6

I have a ‘retweeter’ for the week of events set up at Group Tweet. My thought is we should just use one for both events – to help information flow between them. (if people really want a different one for both we can do that but lets discuss)
So how does this work.
First get a [...]

More to talk about at the Data Sharing Summit

Clearly there is lots to talk about next week at the Data Sharing Summit Thursday May 15th at the Computer History Museum with the MySpace Data Avaliability initiative.