Identity 2.0
// October 25th, 2005 // Technology Bits
After reading about Web 2.0 for the last few weeks, I started to imagine how these principles would apply to the identity management concerns I’m facing daily, and often blogging about. I imagined a world where identity was driven by users in a centralized manner. No more reproduction of identity information across hundreds of seperate sites. This seemed like a great idea.
Then I realized I was a few years late in my thinking. A drive toward Identity 2.0 has already begun. Leaading this charge are guys like Kim Cameron and Dick Hardt. Hardt is the CEO of Sxip which seems to have a reasonable solution for this problem that thankfully could be a solution all the way down the long tail.
Today I watched one of the greatest presentations of my life (discovered here). Hardt has been giving variations of an Identity 2.0 presentation all over the place. This presentation should definitively answer the “Why do I care?” question which often slows down discussions of any emerging technology. Generally I’m a fan of very few slides, lots of engaging speech, this is a fantastic exception.
Go watch it now, you won’t regret it.
Trust me.
Go now…
Some other Identity 2.0 Resources:
O’ReillyNet: Identity 2.0 Gathering: Getting to the Promised Land
Planetwork: ID Commons
2idi: Global i-Name
2012 
Dick Hardt is my new hero. Holy balls what a good presentation (both on the subject matter and the presentation method).
While the presentation was innovative, it didn’t really add anything to what he was saying. I finished it thinking “Wow, that bright man with ADD sure has a lot of clip-art he likes to show off”. I’m glad he mentioned OpenID, which is the only thing other then Passport and .NET that I had heard of before seeing this. All and all, I found the presentation very informative, I just wish he had done something more informative and less-like a typical TV commercial with his slides.
[...] I said “identity management is the next big thing? back in September. That was before I’d seen Sxip founder Dick Hardt’s presentation on Identity 2.0. Zach peeped me the link and told me I wouldn’t regret watching the presentation. He was right. Everybody, especially the people who don’t yet care about identity management, should take a look. [...]
I think your analogy of this to a television commercial is pretty accurate. I think that is sort of the point. You watch the presentation and assuming you aren’t real familiar with the subject matter, think, I need to know more about that. That was interesting.
Presentations often spend a lot of time getting into nitty gritty detail with tons of information. This is good, but the point is different than that of getting people interested or curious about something. Hardt definitely wants you to go learn more.
I highly recommend following the link above and reading some of Kim Cameron’s work, or even the stuff out at PlaNetwork. That’s where the meat is, this is just fantastic frosting.
[...] Casey has been talking a lot about how identity is made up of reputation. We’ve had a lot of discussion about this and I’m still not entirely sure I buy into it in it’s entirely. We first started discussing this in these terms after watching Dick Hardt’s Identity 2.0 presentation. [...]
[...] Dick Hardt recently published a video of his newest presentation titled “Who is the Dick on your site?” This video is from his talk at ETech and was apparently the first time he gave it. Therefore, it lacked a lot of the polish of his previous talk on Identity 2.0. [...]
I am a communications major and am required to give speeches on a weekly basis. After seening Mr. Hardt’s presentation, I was encouraged to make better use of my time and resources. Furthermore, the Identity 2.0 topic is engaging and considerate of the technological revolution happening all around us. I only hope that I can perform on his level in the professional world.