Talking Identity

A little more on OpenID adoption

By Nishant Kaushik on August 25, 2008 5:42 PM

In response to my post about the lag in OpenID RP adoption, Mark Workel asked the following questions: 1. What are the strategic advantages of becoming an IdP? 2. As a consumer or RP, how do I know if an...

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Johannes talks about the OpenID RP "Problem"

By Nishant Kaushik on July 30, 2008 3:37 PM

Johannes Ernst has responded to my post on what I view as a problem for OpenID - the proliferation of OpenID Providers without the emergence of Relying Parties that use them. First of all, let me state for the record...

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OpenIDs problems don't seem to be going away

By Nishant Kaushik on July 21, 2008 5:52 PM

I got news today that MySpace is joining the OpenID revolution. This supposedly brings the number of OpenID-enabled accounts to over half a billion. Maybe it looks like good news for OpenID, but isn't this actually a problem? Isn't...

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Information Cards gets its own Foundation

By Nishant Kaushik on July 4, 2008 7:13 PM

One of the big announcements at Catalyst that I twittered about was the formation of the Information Card Foundation (take that, OpenID). The purpose of the non-profit foundation is to promote the use of information cards as a secure way...

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OpenID and Identity Services

By Nishant Kaushik on May 5, 2008 2:28 PM

In response to my previous blog post about identity services, I received the following question from Billy:"isn't this what OpenID aims to do? If not, how not?"OpenID can be a small (but key) part of the identity services story. The...

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Big News for OpenID

By Nishant Kaushik on February 8, 2008 12:06 PM

In further evidence that OpenID is about to go mainstream in a big way, the big players in the consumer identity space - Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Verisign (along with IBM) - have joined the OpenID foundation, and are even...

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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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Digital ID World recap: Identity Services is Next

By Nishant Kaushik on October 1, 2007 11:28 PM

It took me a while to recover from last weeks Digital ID World conference. And it wasn't just because of the mad scramble I went through at the last minute to update all my slides for my talk. That was...

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Can Project Concordia guide us out of the morass?

By Nishant Kaushik on June 19, 2007 12:49 PM

On Lost, one of my favorite shows on TV, the lead character is fond of saying "Live Together, Die Alone". So much so that on one of the more recent episodes, one of the other characters told him "If you...

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