The Progress Bar

I’m taking notes while listening to Aldo’s podcast with Fred Stutzman at ClaimID. Aldo knows everyone in the identity space and I was happy to turn him on to ClaimID, which I had learned about just days before Aldo and I did our podcast.

Fred thinks people may pay $5 a year to use ClaimID, or perhaps it will be advertising based.

Let’s be clear, ClaimID is more like a microformat than a service. People will most likely not pay for microformats.

They may pay for a service which aggregates your claimed content let’s you in-line the data into your resume. Somewhat likely.

Monster and other job hunting sites may offer the ability to view ClaimID information to employers or ZoomInfo may want to pull ClaimID data into your profile page. More likely.

LinkedIn and other business networking sites are likely partnership candidates of some sort.

The usefulness of ClaimID is limited until authenticity issues are addressed, until then, people will claim anything and we’ll have claim-spam. We’ll see how ClaimID is received at the Identity Mashup.

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.

Many of the major players in the Identity business all on the same one hour IT Conversations radio show.

Steve Gillmor, contributing editor, ZDNet

Doc Searls, senior editor, Linux Journal

Craig Burton, founding member, Novell; co-founder, The Burton Group

Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s Architect of Identity and Access Systems

Dave Winer, father of RSS and more

Marc Canter, Broadband Mechanics

Bryan Field-Elliot, CTO, Ping Identity Corporation

Phil Windley, Brigham Young University

Drummond Reed, CTO, Cordance

The Gang digs deeper into digital identity with a panel of experts. It begins as a Kumbaya of identity vendors and technologies, but by the second half the gloves come off. Craig points out that everyone has built silos so far because there have been no alternatives. Is the idea of a Microsoft silo “old fashioned thinking,� as Kim suggests, defending the company he joined not all that long ago? He then presents the first five of his seven Laws of Identity—clearly well thought out and vendor independent as all agree…