Talking Identity

Where Social Networking meets Enterprise Applications

By Nishant Kaushik on June 13, 2008 1:04 PM

You may have heard the term Enterprise 2.0 thrown around a lot recently. The term (allegedly) refers to the idea of bringing all the concepts (and associated hype) seen in the booming social networking arena to bear on how Enterprises...

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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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Interesting News from the World of Identity

By Nishant Kaushik on January 13, 2008 1:23 AM

OpenID Busting OutThe news this week that Google, IBM and Verisign are looking to join the OpenID foundation could prove to be the last piece of the puzzle in the push to make OpenID mainstream. Reaction to the news has...

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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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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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The first Internet Identity Provider for Social Networks?

By Nishant Kaushik on June 7, 2007 12:36 PM

I received this newswire story about a new company called safeTspace that claims to provide the kind of identity and age verification service that I blogged about a few weeks ago. Aimed at social-networking sites like MySpace, it combines an...

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