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The Progress Bar read by people interested in emerging Internet marketing, technology, social media, reputation, virtual environments, blogs, the Boston Internet scene and much more. If you like what you see you should subscribe to my RSS feed or via email in the sidebar. Thanks for visiting!I think Cardspace addresses the multiple-personality issue quite well, [...]

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Cardspace: Behind The Code is a new internal Microsoft blog I heard about from Kim Cameron. Any news is good news about Cardspace, but it kills me to see, after several years, that all the Cardspace can talk about in their initial posts are SSL certificates and other geekdom. Where is the consumer and business [...]

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This month’s most overused meme is “social graphs.” We’ve been talking about this for years and suddenly it’s all the rage, probably because you can only get so excited about videosharing sites and all the smart people are back from Burning Man.
Johannes Ernst says that Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, are set to release [...]

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Apologies for the 3.0 moniker, but blog readers are brutally selective when searching for interesting headlines.
I’ve been thinking a lot more about  identity, attention and reputation. These reoccurring themes keep popping up in my consulting work and the blogosphere has no shortage of pundits who opine about the role of identity from time to time.
I [...]

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Kim Cameron tells us that Christian Arnold has created a Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox for Windows Cardspace. The ToolBox provides an easy way to use Windows CardSpace in your ASP.NET 2.0 Web-Application to register and validate your users. It´s also possible to use the controls to receive a SAML token and get the decrypted values [...]

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This is great news. I’ve been impatiently waiting for sample code for Movable Type and Wordpress that works with Cardspace, maybe this will speed things up a bit.
Microsoft to Work With the OpenID Community, Collaborating With Sxip, JanRain, and VeriSign
Sxip, JanRain, Microsoft, and VeriSign will collaborate on interoperability between OpenID and Windows CardSpace to make [...]

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Adventures of an Eternal Optimist has a good introduction to the Cardspace Identity System.

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Identity services provider Opinity (a client), has announced that you can now use both OpenID and Microsoft’s CardSpace at Opinity.
This means that if you have established an OpenID–for instance, through Verisign PIP or LiveJournal–you can use that OpenID to log in to Opinity and to control your personal profile. Also, if you have created [...]

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VC and the Attention economy
Interoperability, Open Identity and Identity Brokers
Kim Cameron’s Infocard Tutorial
Root Vaults announces new Data Exchanging Features and Public Display of Attention (PDA).
Scoble on David Berlind and Doc on Intention.

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