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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 an information card through Microsoft’s CardSpace, you can also use it in the same ways.

Congrats to Ted, Doyon, Bill, Dave and the rest of the Opinity team.

The Wall Street Journal has an article about proving online identity. Present and past clients Opinity and Trufina are mentioned.

I got a call from the writer the day before the article went to press. I wish we could have spoken in more detail, otherwise, it was a good MSM (mainstream media) article discussing identifying the new crop of companies building out tools and services to manage our online identities.

Tech Crunch says that eBay is banning Rapleaf, a reputation and feedback management startup that has partnered with Opinity. My pre-coffee thoughts on the subject.