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On the third morning of the Internet Identity Workshop, Joseph Smarr and I welcomed Facebook’s Luke Shepard on to a special episode of The Social Web TV to discuss the big news of Facebook becoming an OpenID Relying Party.

The Internet Identity Workshop is such a special event. Heavy hitters from Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Plaxo, and more, all rolling up their sleeves on the most interesting problems of the emergent Social Web!

Here, with little commentary, my images from Day 2 of the event…

Luke Shepard of Facebook and George Fletcher of AOL led a multi-faceted session on the issues of being an OpenID Relying Party:

Session on OpenID RP Lessons Learned

Session on OpenID RP Lessons Learned

Angus Logan of Microsoft led a great session on a more scalable approach to letting developers register for API keys:

Angus Logan of Microsoft

Session on API Sign Ups

Session on API Sign Ups

From a highly productive session on Activity Streams:

Activity Streams

The afternoon demo session:

Demo

Demo

Two towering figures in the space: Joseph Smarr of Plaxo and Luke Shepard of Facebook. These guys are pushing the envelope, fighting the good fight, showing what’s possible with OpenID (as a Relying Party), and helping the whole industry work through the issues.

Joseph Smarr and Luke Shepard

Joseph Smarr and Luke Shepard

Here’s to another great IIW!

The past six months have flown by, and it is once again time for the semi-annual Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). I’ll post impressions and photos here from time to time throughout the day.

The "Real McCrea"

I had the honor of joining David Recordon and Chris Messina for an opening session on main stage, covering OpenID and other technologies of the Social Web. Here’s the presentation we used to structure our chat. It was almost the “Social Web TV” live!

On stage with Chris Messina and David Redordon

Here’s the view from the stage:

View from the stage

The second session was on Information Cards, led by Reed Drummond:

Reed Drummond on Information Cards

The last of the morning sessions is Doc Searls on Vendor Relationship Management (VRM), which turns CRM on its head. Great stuff. You can’t and shouldn’t “own your customer”. Doc asks, “What’s another word for owning a human being?”

Doc Searls on VRM

Doc Searls on VRM

After lunch, we reconvened, this time in a three ring circle. About to begin the scheduling of the “unconference”.

 IIW Opening Circle

 IIW Opening Circle

Here are the key concepts behind the “unconference” model:

Principles of Open Space

Some of the afternoon sessions:

Some of the afternoon sessions

In the thick of it: Sitting with Luke Shepard of Facebook (big news of today, as they became the largest OpenID Relying Party). Folks around us include Angus Logan of Microsoft and Dirk Balfanz and Breno de Medieros from Google.

In the thick of it

Sessions in Rooms E, F, and G:

Breakout rooms E, F, and G

And here’s my post on Day Two.

On this week’ episode of The Social Web TV, Joseph Smarr and I welcomed special guest, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester, for a discussion based his recent report, The Future of the Social Web in Five Eras. I think this is one of our best episodes, putting the Social Web in the context of mainstream adoption and implications for major brands.

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