Comments on: Universal Online Identities soon?

By: Bill Johnston

Bill Johnston — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:10:04 +0000

Good point Mukund. The dream / nightmare scenario I am describing would link all “profiles” I create, both actively and passively, plus preferences associated with those profiles. Ideally, I would have a central place to manage what data I expose to whom… for instance, I could give Tivo and Amazon full access, but limit technorati to my tags and blogs.

By: Mukund Mohan

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:45:59 +0000

Bill
I have been seeing the mybloglog widget appear in several websites, and I thought it was cool, but there is another part of me that is looking at this going do I really want everyone else to know which blogs I read. Not from a privacy perspective, but just not wanting too much limelight.

The online universal identity begs the same question, now there is ONE place that knows all the blogs / communites you have been too. Again, I can see the benefit of it from the user, but I can also see why I may not sign up for it as an early adopter.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:44:40 +0000

Looks like Microsoft has weighed in – they’ve announced they will support OpenID.

“Bill Gates announced the plan for Windows to support OpenID to an audience of security experts at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.”

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/302830_msftopenid08.html