Talking Identity

Looking Forward to 2008

By Nishant Kaushik on January 29, 2008 1:40 PM

This is the time of year when everyone rolls out their start-of-the-year predictions. You can see a couple of those here and here. I especially loved Anshu Sharma's take on this popular beginning-of-the-year routine.Predictions are risky business, especially in the...

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We need a strong Internet Identity Framework, NOW!

By Nishant Kaushik on November 28, 2007 4:43 PM

This is a little bit of a rant, but read this article in the New York Times and you may understand why. It is difficult to get past the feelings of disbelief, outrage and anger that the tragic story of...

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Facebook and the Social Graph

By Nishant Kaushik on October 18, 2007 9:49 AM

Last week I commented on Dan Nye's apparent lack of understanding about the need for a social graph for the web. This week, I read the following comment by Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of Facebook, on how he...

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The LinkedIn Relationship Silo

By Nishant Kaushik on October 12, 2007 5:39 PM

Seems like all of a sudden the New York Times is a font of knowledge about identity management topics.In an interview that he gave to Saul Hansell for the BITS blog of the NYT, Dan Nye, the chief executive of...

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The Need for Personae in Social Networking

By Nishant Kaushik on August 14, 2007 1:23 PM

Facebook is attracting a lot of attention from the identity community, with many of us signing up on the site. And the blog entries regarding the experience make for some interesting reading.Pamela Dingle blogged about the basic dilemma that most...

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Why Social Websites are really Faux-Social

By Nishant Kaushik on August 6, 2007 2:25 PM

Wired contributor Scott Gilbertson recently ranted about how social networks are adding to the ubiquitous walled gardens on the web (Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up). He talked about something that we are all...

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How Facebook is changing the world of identity

By Nishant Kaushik on July 9, 2007 3:24 PM

Okay, so the days of questioning the impact of social networking websites on our digital lives is long gone. But the nature of the impact is still being understood, and this is producing some interesting findings. While the world of...

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