Eric Norlin in his post Pushing back on Google’s identity silo identifies the biggest barrier to an attention economy.
the fundamental problem at the heart of all of this “identity 2.0″ stuff that I’ve been talking about: the existing silos (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, etc.) have *no* immediate business reason for opening their identity silos (at least, [...]
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The Biggest Barrier to an Attention Economy
July 23rd, 2006 No Comments
Tags: attention · Eric-Norlin · identity
Google as Identity Silo
June 29th, 2006 No Comments
Dick Hardt and Eric Norlin have both commented on the new Account Authentication Proxy from Google. Dick and Eric both clearly see Google as creating a ever growing silo. Eric provides a comparison of Google’s Service to Microsoft’s Passport efforts. Eric points out that Microsoft has moved to make their service interoperable after [...]
Tags: Dick-Hardt · Eric-Norlin · google · identity
Account Authentication Proxy by Google
June 28th, 2006 1 Comment
Google today announced the availability of Account Authentication Proxy for web applications. This is an authentication and authorization service for Google services. It allows third party applications to use Google services on behalf of a Google customer. Google by allowing 3rd parties to create businesses that use their services as a composite part, this [...]
Tags: cognitive-economy · Garett-Rogers · google · identity