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I did a google search for meta-identity and found several interesting articles and blogs on Identity 2.0:

• Identity 2.0


• sxore


• sxip


• technorati:identity20

I find that there are several services and companies all positioning themselves to try to be a hub of identity. Mostly there is talk of authentication, trust and reputation in the enterprise and corporate realm. People are using terms like Identity 1.0, which is kind of silly. I'm sick of all this 1.0 vs 2.0 BS. I have also found that there appears to be some concensus on the ethics of identity. This stuff is all very embreonic and promissing, yet I have doubts as to the ability of enterprise or government-style solutions to be effective in this realm. It seems that bloggers are the early adopters, trying to keep comment spam out of their blogs and such. I don't think the bloggers can drive something like this into the mainstream. For example, how many real people have a technorati profile? Nobody in the real world cares about technorati autthority. What about the 42 million MySpace users? How will the newest generation of web users accept the idea of an identity that is based on the usage patterns of regular bloggers? IMHO, The mainstream will drive the identity platform that ends up getting adopted. Companies like MySpace will have a disproportionatly large say in the equation, as they already manage millions of user identities and relationships.

How can trust be inferred from MySpace? What could MySpace do to become an identity hub? They could, but would they? Why should we listen to O'Reilly and gang when Murdoch already has the index he needs to build a massive (yet crappy) reputation system with MySpace at the center?