Comments on: Dave Winer: we need an open identity system http://www.wordyard.com/2007/07/23/open-identity/ Technology, politics, culture Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:09:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dean Collins http://www.wordyard.com/2007/07/23/open-identity/#comment-884 Dean Collins Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:47:29 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1346#comment-884 Whats wrong with OpenID? The problem with identity is 'splintering', everyone thinks they have a better mousetrap q.e.d. No critical mass. Regards, Dean Collins www.Cognation.net Whats wrong with OpenID?

The problem with identity is ’splintering’, everyone thinks they have a better mousetrap q.e.d. No critical mass.

Regards,
Dean Collins
http://www.Cognation.net

]]> By: apotheon http://www.wordyard.com/2007/07/23/open-identity/#comment-886 apotheon Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:43:15 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1346#comment-886 <blockquote>If, as several speakers at Wordcamp argued, the stuff we’re writing today –even the most ephemeral stuff — is going to provide a window onto our era for future generations, what can we do to insure that it will survive, in a world where file formats and physical media have a short shelf-life?</blockquote> That's easy: just stop asserting copyright to prevent others from copying, distributing, and archiving what you have to say.

If, as several speakers at Wordcamp argued, the stuff we’re writing today –even the most ephemeral stuff — is going to provide a window onto our era for future generations, what can we do to insure that it will survive, in a world where file formats and physical media have a short shelf-life?

That’s easy: just stop asserting copyright to prevent others from copying, distributing, and archiving what you have to say.

]]> By: Krish http://www.wordyard.com/2007/07/23/open-identity/#comment-883 Krish Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:21:57 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1346#comment-883 Very true. We need to accelerate our efforts towards an open standards, open identity system. Microformats and OpenID are good steps in this direction. But we need to work hard to ensure a critical mass in support of these efforts, much like how it was done in the early days of open source software. My take on the open identity and open standards based social networking system can be found <a href="http://www.krishworld.com/blog/social-platform/a-decentralized-social-networking-platform/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Very true. We need to accelerate our efforts towards an open standards, open identity system. Microformats and OpenID are good steps in this direction. But we need to work hard to ensure a critical mass in support of these efforts, much like how it was done in the early days of open source software.

My take on the open identity and open standards based social networking system can be found here.

]]> By: Subjectivity » Felix Culpa http://www.wordyard.com/2007/07/23/open-identity/#comment-885 Subjectivity » Felix Culpa Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:00:32 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1346#comment-885 [...] Rosenberg speculates that the hoped-for “identity layer” may come about as the happy by-product of a [...] [...] Rosenberg speculates that the hoped-for “identity layer” may come about as the happy by-product of a [...]

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