I was one of the first people to congratulate Chris Messina on his blog when he announced he was going to Google. It was a personal congratulations. I wasn’t sure if it was good overall for the...
Facebook’s Online Identity War quotes me and labels IIW an advocacy group. IT IS AN INDUSTRY FORUM. Douglas MacMillan. Sorry but I am still learning “how” to talk to reporters. They don’t...
https://identitywoman.net/iiw-is-not-an-advocacy-group-sigh-the-media/
Jean Russell and I continued our conversation on What are Identifiers this time focusing on the digital context. We cover what user-names are, how they are not portable, what it means to have a p...
https://identitywoman.net/what-are-identifiers-in-the-digital-context/
This is cross posted on Fast Company. The Obama administration open government memorandum called for transparency participation, collaboration and federal agencies have begun to embrace Web 2.0 t...
https://identitywoman.net/fastco-post-on-governemnt-experiments-with-identity-technologies/
This evening I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the joint OpenID and Information Card Foundation dinner. It was fun to connect with everyone and it really meant a lot to me to be ther...
Internet Identity Workshop number 9 is coming up in about 10 weeks. November 3-5 (Tuesday to Thursday) in Mountain View California at the Computer History Museum. We are excited about all the dev...
I was asked by Bill Johnson of Forum One Networks to kick off the discussion on the next Online Community Research Network call this week with the topic Identity for Online Community Managers –...
https://identitywoman.net/identity-for-online-community-managers/
This year there are 2200 panels submitted for 300 slots. It is great they are going with community generated ideas for the conference. It is also hard to tell what will be happening in our fast m...
https://identitywoman.net/its-that-sxsw-picking-time-of-year/
Johanne Ernst is a builder of Identity technologies (and one of the clearest thoughtful thinkers about identity technologies and markets. He just posted a great post about business models in the ...
https://identitywoman.net/id-biz-models-in-the-future-maybe-says-johannes/
Yesterday the Government hosted a workshop in DC: Open Government Identity Management Solutions Privacy Workshop. The OpenID Foundation and the Information Card Foundation are working with the U....