"Networked entities face three major challenges today. Theft of or unauthorized access to confidential data is a constant concern. The inability to share data over a network without an increased security risk limits the ability of organizations to conduct business in the most efficient way. And the lack of a viable single sign-on framework is inhibiting the growth of electronic commerce and networked operations.

The Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) addresses these challenges with standard, open technology that is available to all. OATH is taking an all-encompassing approach, delivering solutions that allow for strong authentication of all users on all devices, across all networks.

OATH's vision is of the network of the future: a network where consumers feel secure entering personal information online, where business partners can safely collaborate and share data across domains, and where devices constitute secure threads in a tightly-woven network fabric. We envision a network held together with standard protocols. With foresight and planning, OATH's vision is turning the dream of a secure, universal network into reality."

"CAS provides enterprise single sign-on service:

An open and well-documented protocol
An open-source Java server component
A library of clients for Java, .Net, PHP, Perl, Apache, uPortal, and others
Integrates with uPortal, BlueSocket, TikiWiki, Mule, Liferay, Moodle and others
Community documentation and implementation support
An extensive community of adopters" via Shree

"Here's the scenario: You want to build a secure means of some untrusted site opening a window, which loads content at a trusted site. Then you want the untrusted dude to be able to pass in parameters. Then you want the trusted code to do any amount of stuff, and return a response.

This kinda thing is what lots of services on the web do, services like BrowserID."

OStatus is an open standard for distributed status updates. Our goal is a specification that allows different messaging hubs to route status updates between users in near-real-time

nice examples of how the look and feel of f8 came to be

"Not long ago I took my daughters to the Portland Children’s Museum – wonderful place – and I couldn’t help but notice this quote written on the wall above the clay making room. To me it so effectively distilled the essence of social media that so I wanted to share it. The quote reads: When I make my art about a flower it is not showing you who the flower is, but to tell you about me. From the mouth of babes! There are several powerful thoughts here communicated in one simple and authentic statement. Here’s what I see that relates to the practice of social media: 1. People reveal themselves through their interests, concerns and interaction. 2. We must listen to what we’re being told about the speaker, not just to what he or she is saying. (More on corporate listening here.) 3. We should respond in a way that lets the speaker know we see them, not just what they said."

"I believe that it is essential that we are able to reconceive OpenID as the brand for decentralized digital identity. OpenID need not be thought of as merely an identity algorithm, but as a means for representing and conducting oneself online and across digital environments. Thus as the identity landscape undulates, the OpenID Foundation is in the position to articulate solutions that are not protocol-bound, but responsive to needs of the time, and able to adapt to and weather the shifting winds of technological progress."

"Service data. Service data is the data you need to give to a social networking site in order to use it. It might include your legal name, your age, and your credit card number. Disclosed data. This is what you post on your own pages: blog entries, photographs, messages, comments, and so on. Entrusted data. This is what you post on other people's pages. It's basically the same stuff as disclosed data, but the difference is that you don't have control over the data -- someone else does. Incidental data. Incidental data is data the other people post about you. Again, it's basically same same stuff as disclosed data, but the difference is that 1) you don't have control over it, and 2) you didn't create it in the first place. Behavioral data. This is data that the site collects about your habits by recording what you do and who you do it with."

"a Firefox extension that combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual. Simply navigate to the profile page or a blog of an individual you are interested in and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i."

"educators see the lessons as grooming children to be better citizens and leaders by making them think twice before engaging in the name-calling, gossip and other forms of social humiliation that usually go unpunished. “As a school, we’ve done a lot of work with human rights,” said Michael McDermott, the middle school principal. “But you can’t have kids saving Darfur and isolating a peer in the lunchroom. It all has to go together.”"

On vanity urls, why they're not on Facebook, why they may never be, and how names are important to identity and discourse on the internet

"Three of the circumvention tools — DynaWeb FreeGate, GPass, and FirePhoenix — used most widely to get around China’s Great Firewall are tracking and selling the individual web browsing histories of their users. Data about aggregate usage of users of the tools is published freely. You can see, for example, that the three sites most visited by users of these circumvention tools are live.com, google.com, and secretchina.com. Aggregate data like this is a terrific resource for those of us interested in researching circumvention tool usage, and not much of a privacy risk for the circumventing users if it is only stored (as well as displayed) in the aggregate."

1st hand account of traveling without an id. excellent points about why requiring id isn't protecting anyone.

"The many lives of Frédéric Bourdin." fascinating story

Some adults may object to naming a kid like you were searching for a domain name, (or a brand), but our kids are delighted about this uniqueness and international sensibility.

"Publishing content into a third party proprietary application is nothing more than sharecropping. You don’t truly own what you are doing, and you are not the primary beneficiary of your actions."

commentary on sumo wrestling that touches on interesting aspects of Japanese cultural identity and globalization

allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers

someone is addressing openid usability issues (finally!)

module lets Google Apps instances authenticate against your drupal user database

"connections being discoverable will drive the next wave of adoption of connection creation tools, just like content being discoverable is driving the current wave of adoption of content creation tools. "

Information is going to be like money. And we’re going to move it around like money. [We already are.] Institutions that hold information are going to be like banks.

The point of the research was to demonstrate how little information is required to de-anonymize information in the Netflix dataset.

on the problems of biometrics used as security

It’s not just the passport that’s government property, but the particular form of identity it instantiates.

it will be far better to invest in smart people watching the social aspects of the system at launch than in smart algorithms guiding those aspects.

The cards contain two authentication keys, and a unique personal email address which is designed to be valid for life. It is used to forward communications to an individual’s ‘real’ email accounts.

The leaders of Silicon Valley begrudgingly gave up their view of us as couch potatoes, now they think of us as generators of content they can put ads on (and pay us nothing). We still need to work on that respect thing.

Vendor Relationship Management, is the reciprocal of CRM or Customer Relationship Management. It provides customers with tools for engaging with vendors in ways that work for both parties.

helps you to remove your name and personal information from thousands of marketing lists, data brokers and other organizations that send you unsolicited mail.

"Why exactly do I need Facebook to get in between me and my address book?"

Howto for running your own OpenID server using phpMyID

Your lists of friends and connections on the social websites that you use, sometimes called your social graph, belongs to you.

Lee and Hoadley offer a case study of a five-week course in which fourteen middle-school-age students participated in two massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) as a way to explore issues of diversity and technology design. Students assumed alternate

instead of giving you a fixed set of terms to label your data with (such as HTML’s elements or a microformat’s class names), RDF provides you with a framework in which you can mix-and-match terms from existing vocabularies—or invent your own—in wh

hCard is a simple, open, distributed format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places, using a 1:1 representation of vCard (RFC 2426) properties and values in semantic XHTML.

Online, he is treated as an equal among his peers. "Not disabled," he says. "Not in a wheelchair. In virtual worlds, everyone is on common ground."

and hanging out with my friends, and we actually ended up sleeping together that night... And then the next day, she came over again, and ended up meeting the girl who she ended up becoming long-term girlfriends with.

"how the architecture that frames social life is changing and what it means for a generation growing up knowing that this shift is here to stay"

Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla / Netscape and Mozilla Thunderbird which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by GnuPG

literally love of place. It is a term used to describe the strong sense of place or identity among certain peoples.

address four key life stages that i think are relevant to folks interested in social media: 1) Identity formation and role-seeking (aka youth) 2) Integration and coupling (aka 20somethings) 3) Societal contribution (aka "adults") 4) Reflection and

OpenID service from Verisign

phpMyID is a standalone, single user, OpenID Identity Provider.

lets you verifiably extend your identity across social networks and blogs… essentially creating an ad-hoc social network out of everything you join.