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