http://therealmccrea.com/2008/07/16/my-prediction-for-2008-a-mid-year-check-in/ John McCrea on the emerging Social Web Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:23:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://therealmccrea.com/2008/07/16/my-prediction-for-2008-a-mid-year-check-in/#comment-1497 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:51:18 +0000 http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-1497 [...] Historically, we’ve seen similar attempts at providing a universal login account. Microsoft even got the name right with “Passport”, but screwed up the network model. Any identity system, if it’s going to succeed on the open web, needs to be designed with user choice at its core, in order to facilitate marketplace competition. A single-origin federated identity network will always fail on the internet (as Joseph Smarr and John McCrea like to say of Facebook Connect: We’ve seen this movie before). [...]

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