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11 January 2007
It all starts to make sense
Posted by Paul Miller at January 11, 2007 01:27 PM
A year ago, I conducted a podcast interview with the very interesting (and great to watch) Dick Hardt. Dick is CEO of Sxip Identity, one of several companies competing for mindshare in the increasingly important online identity management space.
A week ago, Richard blogged about OpenID;
“an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity”
Today, Sam Sethi blogged about Sxipper;
“One Firefox plugin that came out recently from SxIP called Sxipper brings the whole OpenID capability to life. I simply downloaded it and then entered my existing OpenID details into sxipper and it takes care of the rest working very much like the autofill feature on the Google Toolbar. i.e it pops up when it thinks I needs its help to login to website or fill in forms with my personal details.”
I just downloaded it, and shall be seeing how well it works to help manage the way in which I declare my various (personal, corporate, professional, etc) personas to the Web. I may not like being portrayed as a dog (why, Dick, why?), but the tool certainly looks to have potential.
Although a conversation around the kettle this morning (it's January; “water cooler conversation” migrates to the kettle) makes me wonder how big a market there is for managing diverse identities. As Bill Thompson noted on the BBC site last week, users of sites such as MySpace seem to discard their identities with abandon. Maybe they don't want more than one at a time, and maybe they don't want to invest too much in it?
I may actively want to maintain different facets of myself online, and I may want to manage those relatively painlessly. Am I an edge case, an early adopter of some sort, or one of the masses?
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