Dick Hardt is somewhat of a corporate man, but what a great public speaker! (in a field not famous for it). Check out this talk on Identity 2.0. He’s on to something, although what a pity that most of these innovations emanate from the commercial sphere. There are educational equivalents here in the UK, but these debates need to be linked to discussions of privacy and quickly. (Link).
Also, check out The Augmented Social Network which is a Civil Society proposal that deals with the same issue (link)

Dave Kearns said,
December 13, 2006 @ 2:50 am
Perhaps it’ll sooth your conscience to know that Dick (and Sxip) are full participants in the OpenID project (http://openid.net/) as well as Identity Commons (http://wiki.idcommons.net/).
cbellamy said,
December 13, 2006 @ 8:52 am
Fantastic Dave, i wasn’t aware of this project/s. Thanks for making me aware of it and hats off to Dick Hardt.
A Collage of Citations » identity 2.0 said,
December 31, 2006 @ 12:13 pm
[…] via Craig Bellamy, I came across Dick Hardt’s presentation on Identity 2.0, which has a pretty interesting presentation by Hardt (2005) about his concept of identity 2.0 for his company Sxip. You should watch it. He’s onto something. […]