See More Dick
March 21, 2006 | 17 Comments
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.
He talks about a pile of technologies like OpenID and Passport explaining with great graphics how many of these work, and then basically tries to sell us on sxore. I’ve yet to dig deeply an truly try sxore out, but intend on doing so within the week. For now, I setup my account there and have installed the Wordpress plugin. Check back for more on that later.
Update/Warning: If you are running a recent version of bsuite with database driven tags (currently in private alpha release), do not install sxore. Something is incompatible in the installer and will cause all your tags to be deleted.
Tags: bsuite, Dick Hardt, identity, identity management, identity20, openid, passport, sxip, sxore, wordpress
Identity is Reputation?
February 11, 2006 | 1 Comment
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.
Hardt posted this yesterday in Identity=Reputation:
I take a broad view of what I mean by reputation. It is what any third party says about me. I see this as identity, since this is how that third party is identifying me. It may also be useful to other parties, if they trust that third party. If it is useful to other people, then it is valuable for me to be able to move that identity data around.
I don’t have anything direct to quote from Casey (yet) but this is starting to feel right to me.
Tags: Dick Hardt, hardt, identity, identity 2.0, identity management, identity20, reputation
Identity 2.0
October 25, 2005 | 7 Comments
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
Tags: Dick Hardt, identity, identity 2.0, identity management, Kim Cameron, planetwork,2idi, sxip,presentation, web 2.0