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'."

Eric further states that identity is a key enabler of Web 2.0 and that Sxip's blog reputation and comment mechanism, sxore, illustrates why identity is needed in Web 2.0. Sxore is our free identity and reputation system for blog authors, readers and commenters that enables authentic conversations in the blogosphere.

Interestingly, Dion actually said something similar to this in an article earlier this year on "How We Can Best Make the Writeable Web a Responsible Place". He discussed the problems social software on the Web is facing such as the Washington Post having to shut down comments on it's blog due to inappropriate content. He believes that Identity 2.0 makes the two-way Web safe and scalable suggesting that "controlling anarchy on the writetable Web might be as simple asking that folks flash their Identity 2.0 credential right before they change something on the Internet."