"The Long View of Identity"

Andy Oram at O'Reilly just published "The Long View of Identity," an in-depth article looking at the ideas behind our latest conference, Identity Mashup.   The goal of the conference was to explore the role of identity systems (tools that let users and merchants know whom to trust on the web) in furthering or inhibiting privacy, civil liberties and new forms of civic participation and commerce.

Oram writes: "The vision driving this article is a fervent belief among a far-flung set of researchers, software vendors, and system administrators: when people bring parts of their identities online, they can use the internet more effectively. Commerce sites can recognize them, participants in forums can accept what they have to say, and people who share their interests can cluster more tightly with them...." Click here to read the full article.

All of Identity Mashup's panels were recorded and are available via AudioBerkman. Click here to listen in.