Archives 2006 - Quarter 1

SXIP, OpenID and Microsoft InfoCard Comparison

30 March, 2006 - 5:17am

Sxip's recent presentation at the W3C Security Workshop has resulted in an interesting technical article by Dan Connolly. He compares our protocol with OpenID and Microsoft's InfoCard. He comments "SXIP has the essential architectural features that got me excited about OpenID: single sign-on for people (personas) and relying parties can delegate password management." Read more in A look at emerging Web security architectures from a Semantic Web perspective.

Why SXIP is Good for You

24 March, 2006 - 2:48pm

Find out why SXIP 2.0 is good for webmasters and users alike. In this ETech podcast, Keith Grennan the SXIP Tech Lead discusses how SXIP 2.0 offers single sign-on and much more. Learn how we're different from Microsoft Passport with a decentralized architecture that is open and extensible. Keith also delves into sxore, our free identity and reputation system for the blogosphere, which is currently available as an easy plug-in for WordPress.

Identity 2.0 Video Sequel Now Online

22 March, 2006 - 11:24am

In this follow up to the original Identity 2.0 video at OSCON last year, Dick's ETech keynote provides an informative, entertaining and fast paced examination of how user-centric identity on the Web would work with the new release of SXIP 2.0.

SXIP 2.0 at Internet Identity Workshop

21 March, 2006 - 11:45am

We're participating again in the 2006 Internet Identity Workshop, which is scheduled for May 1-3 in Mountainview, California. The IIW focuses on user-centric identity and will cover technical systems and proposals like SXIP, Infocard and Higgins, as well as the legal and social movements and use cases for emerging markets.

The Story of Digital Identity

20 March, 2006 - 5:29am

Hear the story of digital identity from the Sxip perspective. Aldo Castañeda interviewed our Founder & CEO Dick Hardt in a podcast earlier this month. They discussed the problem that both enterprises and consumers face in moving rich identity data on the Web, noting that presently it's easy to obtain data, but not provide it, and how SXIP's user-centric approach would automate this exchange.

Sxip & Postini on Identity Federation & SAML

14 March, 2006 - 5:43pm

Interested in learning about a new federated identity solution for single sign-on, which uses SAML, that's actually simple to use and deploy? Join Sxip Access Technical Lead, Ian Brown, at Imperatives 2006 Postini Global User Conference in his case study on "Identity Federation / SAML".

Positive Buzz on SXIP 2.0 Release at ETech

9 March, 2006 - 2:42pm

We've been demoing the new features of SXIP 2.0 at the O'Reilly ETech conference all week and are thrilled with the feedback we're receiving. Phil Windley writes "substantive improvements over version 1...an optional plugin for Firefox adds good functionality for logging into SXIP enabled websites." Similarly, Jon Udell writes "Sxip is refactoring its lightweight identity protocol in a way that should help its empowering aspects emerge".

ETech Day One: Why the Attention Economy Needs User Centric IdM

6 March, 2006 - 3:33pm

The three speakers this evening discussed issues that we believe will not succeed unless there's a user-centric Identity 2.0 Web. The issues ranged from Attenuation, to the Architecture of Participation, to the Internet of Things. To reach their full potential all of these require (in Bruce Sterling's words) digital identities that must be uniquely identifiable, and (in our opinion) also under the control of the user.

Identity 2.0 at BCNET

2 March, 2006 - 5:13am

Sxip's founder and CEO, Dick Hardt, is giving an opening plenary on Identity 2.0 at the BCNET Advanced Networks Conference next month in our fabulous hometown, Vancouver. The forum brings together visionaries and leaders with a focus on leading edge technology within the research and education community. Dick will discuss the Identity 2.0 vision of authentic identity exchanges on the Web. Register early and you could win an iPod... Hope to see you there!

sxore a reputation at ETech

28 February, 2006 - 12:13pm

Have a problem with comment or trackback spam on your blog? Is your blogging tool WordPress? Then checkout sxore, our free new identity and reputation system for weblog authors. It's now generally available and has a number of cool new features that we'll be showing off at the ETech conference next week.

IBM & Novell Announce User-Centric IdM System

27 February, 2006 - 5:36am

We are excited to see IBM and Novell join the user-centric identity movement with the announcement of the Higgins Project, "a framework that will enable users and enterprises to integrate identity, profile, and relationship information across multiple systems". Being open source, it will be easy for Sxip to work with the Project to add support for SXIP 2.0, our simple, secure, and open protocol for exchanging identity information online.

Identity 2.0 Design Goals

22 February, 2006 - 6:20am

We've submitted a position paper to the W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication, for improving the security of Web interactions, and thought it a natural fit to delineate the Identity 2.0 design requirements for a user-centric approach to identity management.

Identity & Reputation Needed for Blogs: Spam Blogs and Spings on the Rise

16 February, 2006 - 8:33am

David Sifry's new State of the Blogosphere report finds that the blogosphere is continuing to double approximately every six months, and now numbers 27.2 million blogs. This makes the blogosphere 60 times larger than it was three years ago, with a new weblog being created every second! The downside to the massive growth is the notable increase in spam and fake pings or "spings".

Authentic Internet Identities at ETech with SXIP 2.0

9 February, 2006 - 6:50am

Join Sxip's CTO John Merrells as we take the wraps off our next generation of the Simple eXtensible Identity Protocol at the ETech conference next month. John is speaking on March 8th from 4:20-5:05 pm in the Molly AB room. In addition to diving into the technology, John will give a live demo of SXIP 2.0 working on a number of sites, as well show several cool new projects which we're announcing there. Hope to see you in San Diego!

On Star Trek, Walled Gardens, and Identity 2.0

8 February, 2006 - 3:43am

Vin Crosbie wrote an excellent article last week using an analogy of the Cheronians from Star Trek on "Freedom/Registration, Control/Controlled: Identity 2.0 Eliminates Polarity". He extends the comparison to the Internet suggesting that the Cheronian's polar differences towards online anonymity, identity and privacy result in a Web 1.0 world of walled gardens or "identity silos". He recommends Identity 2.0 as the solution for escaping the cheronian madness of absolutism on the Web.

Securing Access to On-Demand Applications at RSA

7 February, 2006 - 4:06am

Are your off-site assets secure? If your organization is moving to software-as-a-service, you can lose control of who is accessing your data. Learn how to secure employee and partner access to your on-demand applications at the RSA Conference next week. Sxip's Chuck Mortimore is speaking on Wed. Feb. 15 from 12:30-1:00 pm in the Technology Showcase. Contact us for a free expo pass. The full abstract is as follows:

Balancing Privacy & Identity: An Identity 2.0 Vision

6 February, 2006 - 7:07am

Interested in learning how our Identity 2.0 vision applies to government and its citizens? Hear our founder and CEO Dick Hardt speak on the "Identity Management: Privacy Enhancing Technologies versus Privacy Invasive Technologies" panel later this week in Victoria, Canada at the Security and Privacy Conference.

SXIP into Drupal at Open Source CMS Summit

2 February, 2006 - 7:01am

Do you like Drupal, the popular open source content management platform for websites? We do too and we've been working with a *bryght* team to add SXIP 2.0 support to Drupal so that users will have single sign-on and more... Join us at the upcoming OSCMS Summit next week in Vancouver, where we'll be demoing the technology for the first time.

Sxore at Moose Camp

31 January, 2006 - 8:01am

Have a problem with comment or trackback spam on your blog? Is your blogging tool WordPress? Then join Keith and Weston of Sxip Identity at Vancouver's first Moose Camp on how to add sxore to your blog. You'll learn how easy it is to use our free new identity and reputation system for weblog authors.

Where Business is a Pleasure: Vancouver #1 Again

30 January, 2006 - 6:10am

Vancouver has been rated the number one city in the world for business travellers by The Economist. The criteria was based on "cost and comfort factors", which helped Vancouver top the list of 127 cities. Those factors include our climate; good, relatively inexpensive hotels; as well as proximity to recreation.

Identity 2.0, Privacy & a Surveillance Society

25 January, 2006 - 12:03pm

David Shenk of the New York Times wrote an interesting article today on technology outpacing the public debate on security versus civil liberties. He notes that "In our post-9/11, protowireless world, democracies and free markets are increasingly saturated with prying eyes from governments, corporations and neighbors. For better and worse, free societies are fast entering the world of total surveillance." This is precisely why we need Identity 2.0 mechanisms, that can provide for privacy, anonymity, and security.

How Identity 2.0 Can Help the Writeable Web

23 January, 2006 - 10:32am

Dion Hinchliffe has an excellent article posted in the Web Services Journal yesterday on the problems facing the two-way nature of social software and how best to address it. Indicative of this, he cites the closure of comments on the Washington Post blog due to inappropriate content and believes that a system is needed that encourages the responsible use of an editable and changeable Web. His solution? Identity 2.0 may be the answer.

Vancouver Again Voted Best City in Canada

17 January, 2006 - 10:05am

For the third consecutive year Vancouver was chosen the best city in Canada to visit in the Travel Weekly Reader's Choice Awards for World's Best in Travel. Travel Weekly is the primary national trade publication for travel industry professionals.

Sxip Is Ready to Rocket

12 January, 2006 - 11:33am

Sxip Identity was recently selected as a "Ready to Rocket" company for 2006. The "Ready to Rocket 25" list names twenty-five private B.C. companies who are best positioned to capitalize on the information technology trends that will contribute to faster growth than the IT sector as a whole.

Identity Gang II Podcast on User-Centric Internet Identity

11 January, 2006 - 1:47pm

The leading experts in user-centric identity were recently conveyed for an in-depth podcast to discus what's been accomplished and their predictions for the coming year. We agree with moderator, Doc Searls', conclusion that significant progress has been made in the identity space with URL/URI based systems. As the blogosphere shows, these locations and pages are a way of representing identity that people are familiar with and are a means to how we get "there" (to widespread deployment) from "here" (developing identity sytems).

Liberty Alliance Joins the Personal Digital Identity Party

10 January, 2006 - 10:10am

The Liberty Alliance recently announced they're coming out with a federated identity management solution for individuals, called People Service. It's great to see the large organizations involved with the Alliance recognizing the value in individual internet usage, and their needs, and in social applications on the Web.

Digital ID World Now This Autumn

6 January, 2006 - 10:17am

It was recently announced that the Digital ID World conference will now be held in its customary fall timeframe instead of this summer as initially planned. The conference focus is managing the decentralization of identity and is scheduled for September 11-13 in Santa Clara. We're glad to see the change and we look forward to being a sponsor again this year.

Web 2.0 & World Peace?

5 January, 2006 - 3:03pm

An excellent overview of what Web 2.0 is, and is not, was published by Peter Wilson of the Vancouver Sun earlier this week in "The Future May Be Now: The Debate Over Whether Web 2.0 is the Next Big Thing in How We Conduct Our Online Lives". The story includes interviews with Sxip's Founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, as well as VC Paul Kedrosky.