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