This post is a collaborative essay written by Jyri Engström and myself, edited by Brynn Evans and originally posted to the ArcticStartup blog on September 11, 2009. Thanks to Brad Fitzpatrick for his comments on the draft. · · · Around 2003, things began to change. Technology was then the black sheep, having left overnight millionaires destitute [...]
Bob Blakley works for the Burton Group and has been involved in identity for some time. Writing about the recently launched Open Identity initiative with the US Government, he cited a reason why the announcement is big news, with which I strongly agree (from an American perspective, YMMV in other countries): The second reason today’s [...]
Cross-posted to the OpenID blog. Today in collaboration with Vivek Kundra, the nation’s first CIO, we are announcing a pilot program intended to enable individual citizens to login to government websites with their existing accounts — without revealing their password or personally identifying information — using OpenID and InfoCard technologies. This is an important step [...]