via Craig Bellamy, I came across Dick Hardt’s presentation on Identity 2.0, which has a pretty interesting presentation by Hardt (2005) about his concept of identity 2.0 for his company Sxip. You should watch it. He’s onto something.
Hardt notes that verbal identity is “what I say about me” and “what others say about me.” Then, we moved to a modern identity, which has a “separation between acquisition and presentation of credentials as well as the identification process and the authorization process, and it provides extreme scale and privacy that I control (most of the time).” (I think I got that quote right.) Digital identity, where you enter a username and password (Identity 1.0) is much like verbal identity: “I am who I say I am.” But how can we get something like modern identity online (Identity 2.0) where there is an issuer of credentials that a user can user and move between sites? An interesting idea.
I hope you put this on our 4C’s notes page. Isn’t this partly where we are going? Who are you? Who you say you are or who I say you are?
Cool.
Too weird – you’re using SNAP, which my brain associates with Dick Hardt because I first saw it mentioned on his blog and it sounds kind of like SXIP and then you post on Hardt himself.
When this video hit the Internets it was everywhere I went. I think four people sent me the link directly, like that same day. But despite all of that talking, I couldn’t find hardly anyone talking about the content, which I thought was pretty interesting. Everyone was going on and on about the presentation style – which sure, was pretty interesting too.
I’m glad that you’re thinking about looking more deeply at what this idea of identity, which comes out of the context of creating a profitable service to manage online identity, might mean in a broader scope.
I don’t think the “sequel” talk -(what’s it called? “who’s that dick on my site?”) is as effective – in form or in content – I’m not sure why.
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In some ways Dick was way ahead of his time with that presentation. Its taken a full 2 years since he did that for it to really take hold. In fact, it was his ideas that helped seed the OpenID movement that was originally started at Six Apart.
User-centric identity will be a big part of 2007 as we’ll start to see lots of sites begin to support OpenID. One username and one password is more than just making life easier for users. It has far reaching ramifications that will really start to put some substance in Web 2.0.
But then again, I’m biased. 🙂
Great to see a fellow Beaver blogging on this stuff! 🙂