Internet Identity Workshop - Day 2

I just got back to my hotel after day 2 of the Internet Identity Workshop wrapped up. This has really been one of the best events that I have been to in a long time. I continue to be blown away by the open space methodology. Then there's the at home feeling I get being in Silicon Valley, in a room filled with almost all techie guys mapping out technology and companies and how things work together. It's really an amazing kind of mindset that can only be found here (because the people are here).

Today was busy. I hit up sessions on:

• The Me Contract
• Mapping Projects & Technologies
• Tag Commons
• Privacy and Anon
• Best Practices for implementing Open-ID
• The T word (Trust)
• Reputation and Gossip

and then I had to run to a meeting. All in all today was fabulous. Here's my growing set on Flickr of the overall event.

My biggest take away is that it's a sargasso sea to try to figure out everything associated with online identity. Reputation. Opinion vs fact. The tools, the protocols, the tokens and the systems. There's been a lot of work done on the technology, but very little on user experience, user expectation and use cases. Tomorrow I am running a discussion session on User Identity (on and off line).

I have several more detailed posts to write on my thoughts about reputation, identity, who owns what data, identity agents, control, verification along with a lot of companies I can't wait to explore in depth.

Tomorrow is the final day. I'll head home to LAnd after everything wraps up. Apologies to my friends in the Bay Area, whom I haven't been able to connect face to face with. I have been busy non-stop. I promise to visit Silicon Valley soon and throw one of my famous happy hours.

On a final note. PPT Karaoke tonight went pretty well. Bob, Time and Phi, Brad, Doc and a final un named guy stepped up to the plate. It was met with mixed reviews. (I didn't have any of Danny O'Brien's funny presentations with me, so we used the ones from BarcampLA). I did however do a karaoke version of Total Eclipse of the Heart. That is such an awesome song.