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A Critical View of OpenID

Jason Levitt (Amalgamated Shoulderpads), Simon Willison (Self employed), Chris Messina (OpenID Foundation), Scott Kveton (Vidoop), Allen Tom (Yahoo! Inc. ) Moderated by: Jason Levitt
2:35pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Web Applications
 Location: Portland 252

OpenID (openid.net), a community-driven standard for decentralized online identity, has become widely deployed throughout 2007 and 2008. This panel pulls together OpenID experts to take a critical look at OpenID’s many deployments. How did OpenID succeed and where does it still need to evolve? How has OpenID penetrated the “end user market” and what are the user experience advances over the past two years? What are the security concerns around OpenID and how do they compare to related technologies? All in all, this should be an interactive panel to answer your questions about OpenID.

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Jason Levitt

Amalgamated Shoulderpads

Web developer, entrepreneur, author, etc

Simon Willison

Self employed

Visionary!

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Chris Messina

OpenID Foundation

Chris Messina arrived in San Francisco in 2004 as a volunteer for the Mozilla Foundation, leading the Spread Firefox community marketing project in raising over $220,000 in microdonations to launch Firefox to a worldwide audience with an ad in the New York Times.

He went on to co-found the Flock web browser and helped to organize the first-ever BarCamp in Palo Alto in 2005. Later, he co-founded Citizen Agency with Tara Hunt, opening a shared work environment called Citizen Space, giving rise to the coworking movement.

Chris now works on DiSo, an effort that he co-founded with Steve Ivy, to facilitate the development of building blocks for the open, social web. He is also a board member of the OpenID Foundation and works part-time for Vidoop, a Portland-based provider of secure internet identity technologies.

He has spoken at numerous conferences around the world and has been quoted in national publications such as The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, MIT Technology Review and Wired. Chris is well-known in the Web 2.0, open source, and startup worlds for his community advocacy and work on open standards initiatives like microformats, OpenID, OAuth and Activity Streams.

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Scott Kveton

Vidoop

Scott Kveton is a digital identity promoter and open source advocate. Scott has worked at Amazon, RuleSpace.com and JanRain as well as founded the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University. Working closely with projects like Mozilla, Linux, Drupal and Apache led Scott down the identity path and to JanRain in mid-2006. Scott was named to Red Herring’s list of ‘25 Titans in waiting’ in early 2007. Scott speaks publicly about identity and open source, is an avid gardener and is also Internet-ordained performing weddings for family and friends.

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Allen Tom

Yahoo! Inc.

Allen Tom is the architect for Yahoo’s Membership team, and is responsible for Yahoo’s Authentication services, including OpenID, OAuth, BBAuth, and SAML.

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