I think my summer will be extraordinarily laid back compared with the frenetic schedule of the Identity Woman. It sounds like Kaliya will have her mind full of interesting ideas all summer long. We look forward to hearing about all of them.

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John Panzer of AOL included a link to an interesting presentation about User Centric Identity on his blog. I only wish I could have heard what he said for each slide.

Thanks to Eric Norlin for pointing this out.

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In his insightful article today, Eric Norlin states, “the big conundrum facing the Internet’s largest players is how to deal with the silos of identity … All of Google’s efforts are aimed at aggregating more and more bits of people’s identity. Same goes for eBay, Yahoo, MySpace, etc — their value lies in the protected silo of personal identity.”

Each of the big dogs on the Internet are building “walled gardens,” where Identities are portable within each virtual garden, but incompatible with Identities in other gardens. Sounds more like a collection of prickly cactus gardens in Arizona than a friendly set of Gardens of Eden.

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I have begun to receive email invitations to attend hospitality suites at next week’s Burton Group Catalyst Conference in San Francisco. A sure sign the conference is on it’s way!

Last year, I declared Bridgestream’s Random Shakesperean Insults the best vendor giveaway I received. I wonder who will receive the prize this year!

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