Identity 2.0: thought-provoking open source con presentation

Dick Hardt, the founder and CEO of Sxip, a digital identity company, gave a barn-burner of a presentation on "Identity 2.0" at the O'Reilly Open Source conference. I've been meaning to watch this for weeks and have only just gotten round to it, and I'm glad I did. I'm pretty skeptical about digital identity, but Dick's presentation made me really reconsider my views. He makes a compelling case for believing that companies can be forced to let their customers own their identity information — Slashdot karma, eBay feedback, Amazon prefs, etc — and that customers have a good reason to want to own all of this. Dick also nicked Larry Lessig's Powerpoint-fu, and as a result, his slides are really compelling and great. I loved this.

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