Regarding the link to Dick Hardt of sxip, Inc., delivering his introduction to Identity 2.0 and how the concept of digital identity is evolving.
Simple eXtensible Identity Protocol
I mentioned in a previous post here in Module 4 that I have always been trepidatious about putting my personal information on the internet. My facebook page is an exercise in watching what everyone else is doing…not very valuable in terms of getting any information about me. I am not part of the twitter movement so that people won’t know exactly when I am going to Costco 😉 (as mentioned in the comment by Ed on their module 4 ning)
I like Dick Hardt’s analysis that your virtual identity is what a website knows about you. But another website doesn’t have access to that information. So your identity is site centric. This means that you are entering information about yourself to an infinite number of website registry pages. Not an efficient use of time for the user, nor is it an efficient use of your identity information.
So in the end we aren’t really anonymous in terms of our personal information or identity, so why don’t we have a user centric model where my personal information exists and intersects with the various websites that I interact with?
In our world operating under Web 2.0, Identity 2.0 is inevitable. I agree with him.
And I know that after signing up for a series of networking sites in the last month, that a better way of navigating my way through the internet HAS to exist…and people will seek it out.