Sxip on citizen-centric identity: IT Conversations podcast

19 November, 2007 - 12:57pm

Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt recently had an in-depth discussion with Jon Udell of IT Conversations' Interviews with Innovators covering a host of digital identity issues including: the BC government's citizen-centric identity initiative, PKI, trust, privacy, biometrics, RFID, and more... Download this informative 45 minute technical overview of the Identity 2.0 vision and discover how phones will become the identity agents of the future.

Yahoo videocast on user-centric identity, Perl & Sxip

14 November, 2007 - 12:54pm

This 15 minute videocast with Sxip's founder and CEO and Yahoo Developer Network's Jeremy Zawodny at Defrag covers a lot of ground from Dick's open source roots to advocacy of user-centric identity. They discuss Dick's innovations over the past decade from leading the port of Perl to Windows in the mid-1990s with Microsoft, to being the first to build on the Mozilla platform with the Komodo IDE at ActiveState, to the creation of Identity 2.0 at Sxip. They concur on the state of user-centric identity being very much like the early days of the web (at the edge) with consumers just starting to become educated about the digital identity problem and solutions such as OpenID and CardSpace.

Defragging Identity 2.0

6 November, 2007 - 5:39pm

Our founder & CEO's latest Identity 2.0 keynote has generated some great comments regarding identity, trust, accountability and user-control on the web. Phil Windley of IT Conversations states, "much of what's he's saying is right in line with the reputation work my students and I have been working on. He makes a critical link to identity: identifiers bind personas together to increase trust." Dan Farber of CNET remarked, "His main thesis is that solutions, like OpenID, are necessary to “defrag” identity and bind it to past behaviors to create a world that is accountable, trustworthy and safe, and with users in control in a granular way of their online presence. Dick said the video would be available in a few weeks. Don't miss it." You bet! We'll post it as quickly as possible...

Identity 2.0 & Microsoft Developers

9 October, 2007 - 5:29pm

Join Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt for a 30 minute podcast interview on digital identity with Microsoft's John Bristowe on the MSDN Developer Connection. Learn how user-centric identity enables developers in building Web 2.0 apps, improving conversions, limiting spam, and more! They also discuss the benefits of Identity 2.0 technologies such as OpenID, CardSpace, and Sxipper.

CBC TV on BC government, citizen-centric ID & Sxip

27 September, 2007 - 4:13pm

CBC TV reported yesterday that the BC government will early next year test virtual identity cards enabling citizens to more safely and easily connect with the government's online services. Ian Bailey, director of application architecture for the province's Office of the Chief Information Officer, notes that "it will give us better privacy protection for individuals." He also stated that it would be done in accordance with the Seven Laws of Identity by Microsoft's identity architect Kim Cameron. The CBC concludes that the project includes identity companies CA, Microsoft and Sxip.

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Brilliant Identity 2.0 Media

19 September, 2007 - 12:40pm

This identity video remix is just absolutely brilliant, kudos to Dominic Sayers and of course Bob Dylan! (If you haven't seen the original video, check it out on our Identity 2.0 blog.) Other great recent posts on user-centric identity include this thoughtful examination by Sam Curry at CA "The Significance of Identity 2.0" and this detailed summary by Brian Schmitt "Research Post on Identity 2.0".

NY Times on OpenID, Phishing & ID Theft

11 September, 2007 - 4:18pm

Melissa Lafsky in her New York Times blog, recently queried whether OpenID is the solution to online identity theft. She suggests that many internet giants like AOL, Microsoft and VeriSign have announced support and cites Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt's perspective that OpenID is the next generation of managing ID on the web. She also, however, expresses some concern with possible phishing issues. We agree there are some security issues, which is why Sxip has worked with others in the community on phishing-resistant technologies for OpenID such as Pape and Sxipper. Check them out and tell us what you think!

Gartner: Identity 2.0 On the Rise

13 August, 2007 - 3:50pm

Gartner's 2007 Hype Cycle Report on Identity & Access Management Technologies published earlier this summer positions user-centric, Identity 2.0 technologies such as OpenID, CardSpace and Higgins as "technology triggers" that are "on the rise", though two to five years away from mainstream adoption. They recommend that consumer facing organizations monitor the evolution of these "Personal Identity Frameworks".

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The Most Compelling Reason to Install Firefox as Your Primary Browser

19 July, 2007 - 10:56am

We've been continuing with Sxipper's improvements and greatly appreciate the extensive input from beta testers and their semantic mapping contributions to the community. Some of the comments we've recently received, Dave Kearns of Network World, "for me, it's the most compelling reason to install Firefox as your primary browser" and "I’d be severely impacted if it were no longer available to me. It’s really the best, if not the first, user-centric identity tool." Tod Maffin's first todbits.tv podcast (go to episode one, 18-28 minutes in) says that he likes Sxipper's password management and web form fill functionality, "Sxipper automatically fills that kind of stuff out for me, which is very clever indeed." Check out the latest release (including OpenID anti-phishing, disposable email addresses, and more) for yourself and tell us what you think!

How Companies Swiftly Deploy Apps

18 July, 2007 - 12:45pm

CIO Insight recently wrote an in-depth article on why businesses are turning to software-as-a-service citing "fast software implementation with reduced upfront investment and minimal IT staff resources". They examine a number of SaaS uses cases such as Optimus Solutions, who needed a new CRM system that was a short ramp to implementation and simple to use for employees. They selected Salesforce along with several integrated applications, including Sxip Access, for its authentication and ability to synchronize IDs and passwords from their corporate Active Directory. Optimus' satisfaction has lead them to look at "the SaaS market to see if there is an appropriate solution each time we open the books on a new business challenge".

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eWeek on the IdM advantages of Sxip Access for Google Apps

12 June, 2007 - 1:57pm

eWeek Labs published a great product review by Cameron Sturdevant today of using Sxip Access for SAML-based single sign-on to Google Apps. Cameron states, "There are a number of advantages to using an identity management system such as Sxip Identity with an on-demand service such as Google Apps. For one, with user authorizations piped through our in-house directory, we felt more certain about who was and wasn't using Google Apps than we did when we used the Google Apps administrative console as our sole authentication gatekeeper." Read more on ease of Active Directory integration, enabling access control to Google Apps without having to maintain a separate authentication store.

Manage Your Identity With Sxipper: New Videocast

30 May, 2007 - 2:30pm

Our recent demo of Sxipper at the Internet Identity Workshop, was described by ZDNet's Phil Windley in his blog as "I've come to use Sxipper since the last IIW and have come to rely on it," and on ZDNet as "tools like Sxipper do a good job at solving that [SSO] problem". A great video was captured at IIW of Sxipper that demonstrates why having control of your online identity is important and how Sxipper enables this.

CBC TV on the Quest for Identity 2.0

16 May, 2007 - 1:39pm

CBC Television recently covered the problems associated with web identity in a story last week at the WWW 2007 Conference in Banff. They discuss with Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt, the problem of who controls your online identity and state that the quest now is for Identity 2.0. They describe Identity 2.0 as a secure login which works anywhere on the net, with no need to remember scores of passwords. Download the video and see what else they say about CardSpace, OpenID, user control, privacy and online commerce.

IDC on how Employers Direct & Salesforce.com use Sxip for Identity Access

27 April, 2007 - 11:59am

IDC has just published a report examining how salesforce.com and its customer, Employers Direct, utilized Sxip Access identity management technology to provision/ deprovision new employees and to provide secure single sign-on (SSO) for the insurance company. Sally Hudson, research director for Identity and Access Management at IDC states, "For small and medium-sized companies, or for divisions of larger companies, software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and IAM-focused appliances are proving effective from both a security and a cost-effective perspective. Companies such as Sxip and salesforce.com are demonstrating that IAM technologies can be adopted and utilized for standards-based Web interactions and services."

Sxip Chosen One of Canada's Top 25 Up & Coming IT Companies

26 April, 2007 - 8:53am

Sxip has been selected amongst this year's Top 25 Up and Comers by the Branham Group, who they believe could be the next who's who in Canadian technology. Their selection criteria was determined by the following: established after December 31, 2002, and show great promise within the IT industry based on creativity and innovation whether it be in a new technology area or optimizing existing technology in an innovative manner. See the full list in the current issue of Backbone Magazine.

A Post Password World

17 April, 2007 - 11:42am

Are we transitioning to a post password world? You bet! Sxipper is enabling this by managing your online identity, passwords, and usernames. Plus a whole lot more. Thomas from The Command Line describes our free Firefox plugin last week in his podcast with Sxip's founder and CEO Dick Hardt as "a great extension. I use it daily and enjoy it very much." They discuss this as well as a number of other Identity 2.0 topics such as OpenID, better privacy through the granularity of claims, current and future identity services, and how e-government could help drive adoption.

A Post Shared Secrets World

5 April, 2007 - 2:29pm

Wouldn't it be great to have a programmatic way to present data online? To have digital credentials to prove something about yourself, akin to a digital drivers licence? To not fear identity theft due to the compromise of your personal information such as your mother's maiden name, your social security number, or other "shared secrets"? Sxip's founder and CEO Dick Hardt discusses these and other Identity 2.0 issues in the first of a two part podcast on the Command Line. In this 20 minute segment, Dick explains how he moved from programming tools to identity services, he defines some terms, and he starts discussing how these new tools interact with and enhance privacy online.

Vancouver firm major force in OpenID collaboration

13 February, 2007 - 8:36am

There's been a lot of great press coverage of the OpenID / Microsoft CardSpace announcement last week. The Vancouver Sun wrote a piece today stating, "The problem of having multiple Internet identities -- being forced to employ user names and passwords for every website that requires a sign-in -- may become a lot easier to handle. And that's thanks, in part, to Vancouver-based Sxip Identity." Another excellent article from last week's ITPRO said of the collaboration, "two of the most prominent technologies come together to deliver a phish-proof internet."

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Sxipper - Man's Best Friend for 2007

19 January, 2007 - 3:04pm

A new beta release of Sxipper, our identity manager for the web, is available. Sxipper is more accurate with thousands of more maps completed and enables you to do more semantic mapping (if you so choose!) You can now edit the map, Sxip the form or reload the map by right clicking in a text field, and forms not recognized by Sxipper can be mapped and reported. Read what others have to say in some great posts: such as "Sxipper - Man's Best Friend for 2007" Chuck writes, "pushing the envelope with their theories on “identity 2.0, but now they are putting it to good use. I downloaded Sxipper today and it doesn’t disappoint." And "Firefox plugin the gap that Microsoft fails to fill", Sam writes "a great new add-on from Sxip which provides “federated” OpenID login credentials to participating websites."

User-Centric Identity: The Holy Grail to E-Commerce?

8 January, 2007 - 4:02pm

Sxip's Founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, was featured today on the front page of the new Entrepreneur section of the National Post. The article, A Massive Opportunity, notes that for "companies, governments and virtually anyone who uses the Internet for business, how you prove who you are is turning into one of the biggest hurdles yet to be solved. It's the holy grail of e-commerce". We couldn't agree more and are engaged in the search! Stay tuned for more Identity 2.0 development coming soon...

A New Sxipper User Every Two Minutes!

7 December, 2006 - 7:55am

Wow! We're delighted with the interest shown by the Firefox community in Sxipper, our free new plugin that saves you time on the web by keeping track of all of your user IDs, passwords, and personal data. The beta was released at IIW on Tuesday and within 24 hours we were averaging a new user every two minutes.

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Busting Silos with User-Centric Identity

3 December, 2006 - 1:12pm

Doc Searls' Linux Journal article, "Let's go bust some silos" does an excellent job of highlighting the issues of identity on the web and the need for identity services that are centered on individuals rather than organizations.

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Employer's Direct SSO to Salesforce with Sxip Access

30 October, 2006 - 11:49am

Employer's Direct CIO Greg Schueman recently spoke at the Dreamforce conference along with Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt on why his company uses Sxip Access for single sign-on to Salesforce. He emphasized that because they use multiple ASPs they require SSO across their core applications as well as need access to be easy and secure. With Sxip they can accomplish employee SSO to external applications now. And in the future they intend to leverage Identity 2.0 technologies for customer SSO from their extranets to ASPs and partner SSO to their partner extranet applications. See his portion of the presentation online on the Salesforce blog.

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Why 79% of enterprises will need delegated authentication

26 October, 2006 - 10:53am

According to IDC, enterprises are increasing investments in SaaS solutions more than 20% annually. They expect SaaS to be a $10 billion market within three years and say that 79% of enterprises are currently purchasing or reviewing SaaS solutions. Erin Traudt, IDC's SaaS Research Analyst, notes that security concerns are continuely cited when they conduct their surveys. However, Sxip believes the security issues surrounding on-demand applications can be lessened through the use of delegated authentication.

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Sxip the Passwords & Use Delegated Authentication

18 October, 2006 - 9:12am

At last week's Dreamforce conference we demonstrated how easy and safe it is to use delegated authentication for Salesforce login. ITPro covered this in their article today on Sxip the passwords, get an identity, noting that with delegated authentication Salesforce users can login with their standard account system thus not requiring yet another set of accounts and passwords to manage and store in case users forget them. Thus the option to use your existing tools will be welcome to larger companies.

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How Software-as-a-Service Makes Identity Management a Challenge

19 September, 2006 - 3:54pm

Computerworld's Paul Gillin recently interviewed Sxip's CEO Dick Hardt for a frank 15 minute podcast on the importance of identity and access management in an outsourced world. They also dicussed trends in the digital identity space and compared the user-centric model of Identity 2.0 technologies like Microsoft InfoCard and why they will be successful versus former attempts at web single sign-on and digital identity such as Microsoft Passport failed.

My Federation? On user-centrism, federation & identity

13 August, 2006 - 9:43am

For the past few months there's been a heated dialogue amongst members of the ID Gang about the definitions of user-centrism and federation. The conversation started in earnest at the Burton Group Catalyst conference, continued at the Identity Open Space meeting, and many have weighed in on the issue since then. Why is a seemingly mundane discussion of semantics important? Issues of the user's role in identity exchanges, trust, freedom, and choice have significant implications for how the emerging identity architectures such as OpenID and InfoCard are designed. And correspondingly affects matters of privacy, liability, and scalability on the Web. The following is a brief overview of some of the key points:

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Gartner Finds Identity 2.0 Not Ready for Mainstream Until 2008: We disagree

10 August, 2006 - 2:54am

Gartner Research's new report "Identity 2.0 is Too Ill-Defined for Imminent Deployment" is correct in stating that the different technical approaches will hinder adoption until standards are adopted. However, we believe there are a number of recent factors leading to widespread usage soon, including: current activity underway in the identity community for interoperability between protocols (including discussions with the Liberty Alliance); Sxip's involvement with OpenID along with a host of other companies; the OpenID bounty program; Wikipedia's intention of adopting OpenID; and the efforts being made by us and others over the past year for a user-centric standard; all of which are indicators to the start of an Identity 2.0 tipping point.

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Identity 2.0 & the future of cyberspace on the Global Geek Podcast Network

7 August, 2006 - 5:11pm

The Global Geek Podcast has just posted their 30 minute interview with Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt. The Q&A session covers a range of issues concerning Identity 2.0 such as: the importance of open standards, open source and open data; enabling the creation of an "online concierge"; the beginning of a tipping point with OpenID and InfoCard, which will mean massive changes for identity on the Web within the year; how there are parallels with William Gibson's and Neal Stephenson's visions of a future cyberspace that is a real virtual world; and much more... Of note, the interview segment starts 21 minutes after the beginning of the show.

Identity 2.0 & Google, Not!

6 July, 2006 - 11:16am

Google has been under the identity gun ever since they announced an Account Authentication system that looks an awful lot like Passport, whereby instead of Microsoft, all your identity info in effect belongs to Google. Sxip's founder and CEO, Dick Hardt was the first to note the problems with this approach on his Identity 2.0 blog, and since then CNN, the Guardian, ZDNet, Microsoft's Identity guru Kim Cameron, and others have commented how problematic this approach to digital identity is.

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CEO Secrets: Dick Hardt and Other Mavericks on Succeeding

1 June, 2006 - 10:42am

The main story of this month's BC Business Magazine profiles some of BC's most accomplished entrepreneurs and explores the characteristics needed to build a successful business. Featured on the cover, Sxip's Founder and CEO Dick Hardt, is described by reporter Corinne Friesen as "a local tech genius who exemplifies what these entrepreneurs have lots of: self-reliance and intution". Other common traits she notes are "crazy-passion about their work, quick to praise, stubborn as hell, a strong vision, loads of confidence and a desire to make a difference". Read more in "Tips from the Top".

User-Centric Digital Identity Story - Podcast Part Two

24 May, 2006 - 5:26pm

Aldo Castañeda interviews Netmesh's Johannes Ernst, Sxip's founder and CEO Dick Hardt and Nokia's John Kemp in the second half of this 30 minute user-centric identity podcast on: whether government should be involved, how the protocols compare, and if we're at a turning point of interoperable momentum.

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Why Web 2.0 Needs Identity

23 May, 2006 - 2:01pm

ZDNet's Eric Norlin recently posted an excellent article commenting on a series of stories by Dion Hinchcliff on Web 2.0. Eric identifies the problem with this in that, "applications are creating data stores of identity information and attributes. And, by default, those applications are not interoperable with other Web 2.0 applications. Thus, we are 'silo'ing' even more identity data as we build out Web 2.0." He correctly identifies Identity 2.0 as the solution, noting that to do otherwise we are "still locking up identity data — in essence, keeping that section of its architecture 'web 1.0'."

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User-Centric Digital Identity Story - Podcast Part One

22 May, 2006 - 2:56pm

Aldo Castañeda interviews Netmesh's Johannes Ernst, Sxip's founder and CEO Dick Hardt and Nokia's John Kemp in this 30 minute podcast on: what user-centrism means, what they foresee for digital identity in 20 years, and their reflections on the recent Internet Identity Workshop.

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InfoWorld Chooses Sxip Among 15 Tech Startups to Watch

15 May, 2006 - 1:56pm

InfoWorld has selected Sxip Identity as one of 15 Tech Startups to Watch, whose "technology meets tough IT challenges and introduces intriguing new capabilities". InfoWorld's editors based their picks on those companies that address IT problems in a new way, rather than merely refining what has gone before and believe that we have something special to offer enterprise customers. Find out what they have to say about Sxip Access, our IdM solution for ASPs such as salesforce.com, and about SXIP 2.0, our next generation Internet identity solution in Sxip Simplifies Identity Management Across Domains.

Sxip podcast from Internet Identity Workshop

8 May, 2006 - 1:49pm

Our founder and CEO, Dick Hardt, did an in-depth interview last week at IIW with Tom Maddox of Opinity. In this 30 minute comprehensive podcast they discuss: what digital identity management should look like, Sxip's support of Open Source technology, some of the limitations of Microsoft InfoCard, and more.

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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.

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.

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".

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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.

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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.

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User-Centric IdM Why It's Good For Individuals & Business

20 December, 2005 - 3:21pm

Industry analyst Mike Neuenschwander of the Burton Group has just published an in-depth report (unfortunately only available to subscribers) on "User-Centric Identity Management and the Enterprise: Why Empowering Users is Good Business". He notes that the user-centric model views current IdM systems as flawed. We agree and concur with the perspective that the next generation of identity systems must be polycentric (meet the needs of the Internet community and also enterprise administrators).

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User-Centric IdM & The Enterprise -- Burton Group Podcast

15 December, 2005 - 12:49pm

Industry analyst firm, the Burton Group, has now archived an excellent audiocast on User-Centric Identity Management and the Enterprise: Why Empowering Users is Good Business (unfortunately only available to subscribers). Analyst Mike Neuenschwander explores the work to date on this emerging technology, proclaiming it to be possibly the greatest advancement in IdM since LDAP. He also interviews Paul Trevithick of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, for the last half of the telebriefing. They discuss the need for an identity metasystem, privacy issues, how to build trust, and problems in getting there.

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Internet IdM & Attention Data Podcast with Sxip & Microsoft

12 December, 2005 - 10:15am

Sxip Identity's Founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, and Microsoft's Chief Identity Architect, Kim Cameron, recently gave an in-depth podcast with Josh Porter and Alex Barnett on Internet identity management in the context of the attention economy and social software. Part one discusses the biggest problems that need to be solved with identity on the Web and part two explores attention data issues for e-commerce sites.

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Identity 2.0 & Personal Digital Archives

22 November, 2005 - 7:46am

I spoke with Peter Van Garderen, a PhD student with the University of Amsterdam, at the recent Web 2.0 User Group meeting regarding SXIP and the interesting applications it will have for his personal digital archive work. His blog discusses the value of SXIP's goals, particularly, our aim to "put the control over the user's online identity and personas in the hands of the individual" and more importantly from his perspective as a digital archivist "the option to store and control this information where I like". Read the full posting at archivemati.ca.

Podcasts with Sxip from Under the Radar & Web 2.0

18 November, 2005 - 10:49am

A recent O'Reilly audio program, "Distributing the Future", on day three of the Web 2.0 conference includes a snipet of Sxip Founder & CEO, Dick Hardt's Identity 2.0 presentation. The segment is about halfway through the audiocast and covers Dick's explanation of how you verify your identity. Sxip is also featured in a podcast from this week's Under the Radar reception on the Eric Rice Show. The interview is about two-thirds of the way through the program with John Merrells, our new CTO, regarding the problem of identity silos on the internet and the need for Sxip's user-centric solution.

Identity 2.0 Audiocast

27 October, 2005 - 3:46pm

Sxip's Founder and CEO, Dick Hardt, gives an in-depth interview to UK-based Paul Miller of Talis Talk on Identity 2.0, and the ways in which personal identity might better be managed in the online environment. Talis Talk covers conversations with thought-leaders at the interface between Web 2.0, Libraries, and the Semantic Web.

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Identity 2.0 at BlogOn -- Original, Compelling, and Hypnotic

24 October, 2005 - 1:52pm

Sxip's Identity 2.0 talk at BlogOn last week received positive reviews and some rather unique comparisons, including that of a "sing-along video" by David Weinberger and likening Dick to the "Stephen Wright of the tech world" by Blogher's Elisa Camahort.

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Web 2.0 -- The Next Generation of Software

3 October, 2005 - 3:41pm

Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media recently published an in-depth article laying out the design patterns and business models of Web 2.0. He gives an interesting perspective on the importance of data, which he likens to "the next Intel Inside". He notes that every significant internet application to date has been backed by a specialized database i.e. Google's web crawl, Amazon's database of products, and eBay's database of products and sellers. He believes however that the race is on to own certain classes of core data such as location, identity, and calendaring of public events. With respect to identity, he points to "startups like Sxip who are exploring the potential of federated identity in quest of a kind of 'distributed 1-click' that will provide a seamless Web 2.0 identity subsystem."

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Digital Identify Defined

29 September, 2005 - 8:50am

Our Identity 2.0 video of Dick's keynote at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference this summer is continuing to pique people's interest. ZDNet's Dan Faber wrote yesterday, "Must watch: I've seen Dick Hardt's presentation on the nature of digital identity evolve over the last several months, and the version available here really captures the complexities of participating in an online world and how identity is at the center of the Web experience."

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Securing On-Demand Access

24 August, 2005 - 8:49am

"A Web 2.0 company with a product that'll appeal to ultra-cautious corporate IT types. How cool is that?" Thanks Phil, we agree! Phil Wainwright with ZDNet discusses the Sxip Network and Sxip Access in his Software as Services column.

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Uncovering the Next Web

22 August, 2005 - 11:26am

Seattle VC, Erik Benson, has posted a good summary of the ten steps we've taken to get to the "two-way web", which he starts with AOL in 1985 under "intial online infrastructure and content". Sxip is listed in step 9 "identity management federated web services".

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Sxip Expanding With Web-Based Identity Management

17 August, 2005 - 9:34am

The Vancouver Sun has just published an article on our Vancouver and San Francisco expansion. Business Reporter Fiona Anderson discusses, Sxip Access, our on-demand identity management solution for ASPs, which is unique from other IdM systems. She also reports on our Identity 2.0 vision, which is a "quantum jump" from how we look at identity today.

Identity 2.0 -- It's my information, right?

15 August, 2005 - 10:01am

The recent posting in A Nation By the People and IP Addresses by Wayne Hall provides a good summary of the differences between a silo-centric Identity 1.0 web and our vision of a user-centric Identity 2.0 web. He correctly notes that when consumers gain control of their online identities that vendor identity policies will be forced to adapt, allowing for greater privacy.

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Identity 2.0 -- More than Just Single Sign-On

5 August, 2005 - 8:18am

Not just "another marketing attempt", our keynote on Identity 2.0 at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference has generated a lot of positive feedback.

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One Login to Bind Them All

2 August, 2005 - 9:02am

Looking for one login and password to check news feeds, publish blog posts, manage social networks and swap photos or music online? Your "digital lifestyle aggregator", GoingOn, is coming soon! Available this fall, it will interoperate with the Sxip Network.

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Presentation 2.0

28 July, 2005 - 2:53pm

Not only are are we working on the next generation of digital identity, we're also discussing it in an innovative way. Check out some of the buzz.

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Weighing in on the Conversation: the Sanity of Sxip Access

19 July, 2005 - 5:38pm

Craig Burton, father of the meta-directory, recently commented on the sanity of Sxip's new appliance, Sxip Access. Thanks to Marc Cantor for his defence of us, but we felt we should weigh in on the conversation.

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Identity 2.0 on CNET

24 June, 2005 - 1:39pm

Missed our presentation at Supernova? Learn more about our Identity 2.0 vision. Check out our CEO Dick Hardt's interview on CNET.

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Sxip Chosen as Finalist in BC TIA Technology Impact Awards

20 May, 2005 - 2:18pm

We're delighted to announce that the Sxip Network has been selected as a finalist by the BC Technology Industries Association (BC TIA) in their 12th annual Technology Impact Awards in the Most Promising Pre-Commercial Technology category. The BC TIA is the largest and most influential technology association in BC and is a not-for-profit, member-funded organization that represents the province's technology industry.

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Jamie Lewis on the Future of Identity Management

13 May, 2005 - 12:51pm

The CEO and Research Chair of the Burton Group, Jamie Lewis, spoke at this week's Digital ID World conference on identity management trends, noting that regulatory compliance and automated provisioning are driving IdM adoption. He also discussed user-centric identity, stating that the Internet needs an adaptable identity system to support a wide spectrum of contexts.

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Phishing for identities – how to avoid it hook, line and sinker

23 January, 2005 - 6:22pm

What is necessary to safely secure your online identity in a new distributed identity system?

In the "Sixth Law of Identity" Microsoft identity guru, Kim Cameron, discusses this issue in light of the valid concerns surrounding attacks (and potential attacks) on identity information and identity stores. Sxip developer, Andy Smith, takes an in-depth examination of these fears and how they can be addressed. He notes that the SXIP protocol addresses these problems in two ways: first, by decoupling the authentication method and second, by providing anonymity through an increased granularity of data.

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Credentials, Not Business Cards

14 January, 2005 - 10:25am

On the Internet, how do you solve the problem of trust? How do you prove that someone is in fact who they claim to be?

Phil Windley's article on Lightweight Identity points to this very problem. As Phil notes, it's not an issue to trust somebody about information with little risk involved, like contact information, but there is considerable risk in trusting somebody's word on whether they have a degree or driver's license. Systems like LID don't offer a solution for that problem; SXIP does.

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How we did with our IdM resolutions

9 January, 2005 - 6:27pm