Let's avoid the word "credential". It has so many meanings as to be confusing

Microsoft has released a beta of its most important developer tool to date

I found the samples very clear, and uncluttered with a lot of "sample decoration"

Kim Cameron and I recorded a podcast on digital identity for MySuccessGateway this week at the invitation of Jim Peake of SpeechRep Consulting. Jim was a gracious, informed, and enthusiastic host during our conversation, which covered a wide range of digital identity topics including identity theft, shared secrets, privacy, Information Cards and the Information [...]

Last week IDology demonstrated a first that many of us see great possibilities for: an Information Card making a verified age claim. I’m excited at this first step towards the goal of enabling people to routinely use interoperable verified claims about themselves via Information Cards. Obtaining my age-verified card online was easy. I submitted my name, address, and birth date (via a self-issued card) to IDology’s verification process. Next they asked me a few additional questions to confirm that

User-centric doesn't mean 'The Dictatorship of the Users'

Metadirectories (directories of directories) provide the glue for stitching up administrative continents so digital objects can be managed and co-ordinated within them.

This is not cryptographic rocket science.

I recently encountered Ryan Janssen’s insightful series entitled “The History of Tomorrow’s Internet” and immediately read the whole thing in one sitting. Among other gems, I found in it the clearest explanation of the value and promise of XRI/XDI that I’ve ever read. Great stuff! The most recent installment detailed his experiences of “how [...]

If anyone wants to bet against the future of databases and integration of identity information into them, drop me a note.