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Monday, April 22, 2002CNET: Gov't mulls Microsoft, others for ID system. "The U.S government is considering using online ID systems from Microsoft, Entrust, RSA, and VeriSign among others to track the identity of visitors to a dozen new federal Web sites launching later this year, a federal official said Friday."
Posted to identity @ 12:50:57 PM ( comments)
Digital Identity: News and features on identity web services. Posted to identity @ 12:14:41 PM ( comments)
Rael Dornfest: Identity. "The holy grail is a unified, decentralized, simple yet extensible user-centric identity, membership, and preferences fabric for the Internet."
Two years from now. Privacy, security and scalability concerns are addressed. What else do we need? I would like to have different authentication for different levels: view-only, transactional and administrative. I would like to have multilevel authentication. How about delegation? I want to give access to my information, but don't want to give away my authentication information. How about web services integration? Again, I would like to use my identity, but different authentication mechanisms. Posted to identity @ 12:13:44 PM ( comments)
Tim O'Reilly: Inventing the Future. "Why would a company that has a large and valuable data store open it up in this way? Revenue. Branding. Platform lock in. Goodwill."
"Weblogs aren't just the next generation of personal home pages, representing a return to text over design and, lightweight content management systems. They are also a platform for experimentation with the way the Web works: collective bookmarking, virtual communities, tools for syndication, referral, and Web services." [Tim O'Reilly] Posted @ 11:28:41 AM ( comments)
PayPal: Not What It Used to Be: "PayPal was started by some young partners, inexperienced with the realities of credit card processing and too arrogant to listen to their customers. First they thought they could get away with stating that charge backs would not be allowed. When that didn't work, they came up with a buyer/seller protection plan that set up some ground rules to prevent abuse. When that didn't work, they decided to just pretend that it did and hope that no one would notice."
Name Your Own Price on PayPal: "Armed with nothing more than a text editor and a Web browser, a crafty fraud artist can, for example, change prices of items at hundreds of e-shops that use PayPal." Posted to payments @ 9:52:31 AM ( comments)
USA Today: MasterCard to stop third-party transactions: "A new rule by MasterCard could crimp online commerce by stopping merchants from accepting credit card payments through third parties, such as the popular PayPal, USA TODAY has learned."
USA Today: PayPal works to keep MasterCard business: "Shares of online payment system PayPal fell 2% Friday on news that MasterCard would no longer work with third-party credit card payment systems." [Scott Loftesness] Posted to payments @ 9:42:39 AM ( comments)
Updated 8/22/2002; 5:23:42 PM
