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Digital Identity

A collection of 16 issues

Welcoming Facebook to the OpenID Foundation

The day after Facebook's 5th birthday, I join David Recordon and the rest of the board of the OpenID Foundation in welcoming Facebook as our newest member, in rapid succession to Paypal just a few weeks ago. The significance of both of these companies investing in and becoming

Inaugural Jelly! Talk this Friday: OpenID vs Facebook Connect

This Friday, I'll be joined by Dave Morin (my good friend from Facebook) at the first ever Jelly! Talk at Joe and Brian's loft in San Francisco.If you're not familiar with Jelly, you should be. I call it the "gateway drug to

What PayPal's member in the OpenID Foundation could mean

Brian Kissel announced this morning that PayPal has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation as our sixth corporate member, with Andrew Nash, Sr., Director of Information Risk Management and a longstanding advocate for OpenID, as their representative.That PayPal has joined is certainly good news, and helps to diversify

Perception and reality in the land of OpenID

A couple related posts caught my attention recently about OpenID. As I'm now a board member of the OpenID Foundation, I feel some responsibility for helping to inform folks about OpenID: what it is, how it's used, why I believe that it has so much potential

Twitter and the Password Anti-Pattern

I've written about the password anti-pattern before, and have, with regards to Twitter, advocated for the adoption of some form of delegated authentication solution for some while.It's not as if Twitter or lead developer Alex Payne aren't aware of the need for such

The results of the OpenID Board election are in!

I received an SMS from Michael Richardson this morning (around 8am here in Hawaii) congratulating me on my election to the board of the OpenID Foundation. It seems fitting that I should receive first word from him, since, as the Karl Rove of my campaign, he came up with the