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Identity 2.0: The Connecting Fabric

Published October 11, 2006 by cgerrish

This morning it occured to me that identity 2.0 is the solution to this problem of aggregation and integration of Web Apps and Services. It’s like the old Clement Mok story:

Someone: “In the future there will be 5,000 cable TV channels!”

Mok: “In the future, there will be 1 channel. And it will have everything you want to watch on it.”

If a user can self-assert an identity and attach Web apps and services to it, that becomes the connecting fabric. The connection can’t be external to the user. Microsoft, Google or Yahoo can’t own the connection, because the connection literally is the user. Today, the user doesn’t own her own net identity, the system of record does.

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Deep Pockets

Published October 10, 2006 by cgerrish

The acquisition of YouTube by Google creates deep pockets (9.8B). Copyright lawsuits against YouTube used to be simply a matter of principle, the company had no revenue. Now we could be talkin’ real money.

That said, the Network is a new distribution method for video. The traditional distributors will try to maintain their hold through lawsuits. This will work for a while. Google will be bruised in the turbulent transition.

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Google Gadgets

Published October 4, 2006 by cgerrish

The further distribution of the Web. Google has gadgets you can insert into your Web site. It doesn’t matter who’s Web site the content is on, it’s where the content/gadget comes from and what kind of viewership begins to collect around it.

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