Passport vs OpenID vs Facebook Connect

My post yesterday on Facebook Connect raised a few eyebrows. I had a few discussions with people and a comparison of consumer identity solutions past and present may provide some context. (I have excluded InfoCards as I see them as a strong, enterprise grade solution that is currently too heavy for general consumer use.) Passport Microsoft rolled [...]

Facebook Connect - fatal blow for OpenID?

At F8 today, Facebook rolled out their Friend Connect platform. With a small amount of code, other sites can integrate the Facebook identity system into their site. The keynote reminded me of early days of Microsoft as they rallied developers to build on their platform by explaining how the platform can help them and being [...]

Big Boys and OpenID

TechCrunch wrote an article asking if the Big Boys were exploiting OpenID. The crux of the argument was that they are providing OpenIDs, but are not accepting them. In other words, they are an OpenID Provider, but not a Relying Party.  John McCrea echos what Michael said, and Jason Kolb and David Recordon also wrote posts [...]

Industry Giants join OpenID Foundation Board

Today Microsoft, Yahoo,  IBM, VeriSign, and Google have joined the OpenID Foundation as corporate board members. This big news for OpenID. With Yahoo and Google becoming OpenID Providers earlier this year, this is really shaping up to be the year of OpenID. First coverage I see of the announcement is at CNN Money. That’s funny. Updated 6:57AM Mike [...]

2008: The year of OpenID?

This year is starting off with a roll of thunder for OpenID with coverage today from TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Wired and PC World and OpenID positioned as a foundational technology of the DataPortability Workgroup and at the upcoming Social Graph Foo Camp. With the finalization late last year of the OpenID 2.0 specs (included Attribute Exchange); [...]

Podcast on

Jon Udell recently interviewed me about the BC Government Identity Management project. Podcast provides some thoughts on that, and then we wonder into general discussion on user-centric identity.

OpenID at Next Web

I gave a talk on Identity 2.0 at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam. Although the organizers are not professional conference organizers, it was pretty wll run, and they were great hosts! The attendees where the tuned in digirati from around Europe and the presenter lineup was pretty good. My talk on identity was well [...]