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Facebook joins OpenID foundation

Eric Norlin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:28:06 -0500

The identirati are all abuzz about Facebook joining the OpenID board.

PayPal joins the OpenID Foundation

Eric Norlin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:40:26 -0500

The OpenID Foundation announced today that PayPal has joined their board. At first blush, this may not

Microsoft adds to their identity ranks

Eric Norlin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:04:00 -0500

It seems that everywhere you turn these days, all you hear about is lay-offs. Heck, even Microsoft is laying off people.

Identity for identity's sake?

Eric Norlin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:34:58 -0500

I had an interesting early morning conversation today with Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity (full disclosure: Andre's a close friend and was my boss for a time.

Digital ID World 2009

Eric Norlin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:41:44 -0500

In response to Axel's blog post - Digital ID World is on for 2009!

Digital ID World
September 14-16, 2009
Vegas (baby!)

Symplified is a startup to watch

Eric Norlin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:17:59 -0500

Network World has released its annual "10 startups to watch" list, and identity management vendor,

SPML, SaaS and identity in a services world

Eric Norlin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:12:33 -0500

Ian Glazer's posting about the idea of federated provisioning over on the Burton Group blog, and

The Election

Eric Norlin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:10:42 -0500

Big News: there was an important election at the end of 2008. No, I'm not talking about the presidential election.

Microsoft hires Dick Hardt

Eric Norlin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:55:46 -0500

The "big" piece of news as of late in the world of identity has nothing to do with deployments, protocol battles, or product launches.

Send me your identity ideas for DIDW09

Eric Norlin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:51:42 -0500

Believe it or not, I'm digging in for Digital ID World 2009 (september in Vegas, baby!). And I need your help.