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This is great news. I met most of the OpenID leaders at the Identity Conference at Harvard. While there are a number of usability and safety issues to address, the adoption rate for OpenID is taking off, slowly but surely. What is it up to now, 100+ million people? Problem is, most people don’t know [...]

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I think Cardspace addresses the multiple-personality issue quite well, from the user-experience perspective. I’ve been playing around with the identity selector in Firefox on my Mac, which actually works some of the time. Easily selecting a persona based on the context of a given situation (game, blog post, adult content access, etc) is as easy [...]

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Jeremiah Owyang on Web Strategy Predictions: Facebook, Identity, Social Networks.
Facebook will launch an Identity widget that I can embed on my blog. This allows only those who have registered to Facebook to leave a comment, many high profile blogs will do this, to avoid nasty anonymous comments, thus reducing the incident of Kathy Sierra type [...]

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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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Right on Fred, you touch on many of the points I address with the social net startups I’m advising, although you’re a little nicer about it than I am because the world is full of people entering the space that should stick with whatever they were doing beforehand, that critical mass will likely evade them.
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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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