At the core of everything is people - us - and it's been possible (since the advent of membership accounts of portals) to provide humans with highly customizable, web based interfaces. Most of those portals (I call it the MyYahoo era) provided very little REAL personalization, instead offering up the same list of 50 stock tickers, sports scores or movie listings apps.
That world has evolved into the "web services" world and now the "digital identity" business is coming into it's own. There is now enough "business" in this "space" to justofy Andre Durand and Eric Norlin's PingID company - which is clearly the leader in understanding and exploiting the opportunities.
As Jeremy points out below - the scene will be in Denver - mid-Oct. so all you nascent social software, Home LAN, personal server, digital lifestyle, homebrew whatever the hell it is you're building folks - should come. We'll be representing the consumers - the humans - in a world of enterprise.
There's also another show I'll be speaking at - on Oct. 1st - called the RVC SoftEdge conference - along with Meg, Dan Gillmor, Kevin Werbach, David Isenberg, Reid Hoffman and my old Obie buddy Robert Poor. I'll be on the consumer driven innovation panel - and belive me - I'll be doing some driving.
Here's Jeremy's post on DigitalID World and PingID.....
PingID supports WS-Federation. I heard about this, but was happy to see Marc Canter comment on the fact that PingID is releasing a prototype of WS-Federation. Ping have shown themselves to be a visionary company that is agile in addressing emerging standards. I've looked closely at the Liberty Alliance Phase II specifications and WS-Federation, and they are remarkably similar, which creates a tough choice for customers looking to federated identities between websites. Knowing that there is a software company that will protect your investment by supporting all the standards in a federation gateway is a big plus. I'm headed to DigitalID World in a few weeks in Denver, the center of the universe for digital identity issues. [Jeremy Allaire's Radio]
