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ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit Announced

The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit announcement is live. I am working on this with them as the facilitator. The event is modeled on the format we use at the Internet Identity Workshop to get a lot done and have real discussions about emerging topics in industry.
ReadWriteWeb has offered high quality coverage of this area for [...]

FastCo Post on Governemnt Experiments with Identity Technologies

This is cross posted on Fast Company.
The Obama administration open government memorandum called for transparency participation, collaboration and federal agencies have begun to embrace Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, surveys, social networks, and video casts. Today there are over 500 government Web sites and about 1/3 of them require a user name and password. Users [...]

Open Identity for Open Government Explained

Today the United States Government with digital identity industry leaders announced the development of a pilot project with NIH and related agencies using two of the open identity technology standards OpenID and Information Cards.
This is, as a friend said to me, a “jump the shark moment” – these technologies are moving out from their technologists [...]

Celebrating with OIDF & ICF

This evening I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the joint OpenID and Information Card Foundation dinner. It was fun to connect with everyone and it really meant a lot to me to be there. It has been a long journey as a community since the first Internet Identity Workshop in Oct [...]

Thomas Friedman on the lesson from Van Jones – “Watch out for the participatory panopticon”

Thomas Friedman of the NYTimes on Meet the Press today talking about several recent incidents including what happened to Van Jones.
When everyone has a cell phone, everyone is a photographer, when everyone has access to YouTube, everyone is a filmmaker, and when everyone is a blogger everyone is a newspaper.
When everyone is a photographer, a [...]

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