The next generation of Identity

I gave a talk on Identity 2.0 at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam. Although the organizers are not professional conference organizers, it was pretty wll run, and they were great hosts! The attendees where the tuned in digirati from around Europe and the presenter lineup was pretty good. My talk on identity was well received and referenced by a number of the other speakers. There seemed to be general consensus that identity is an important part of the future of the web, and the OpenID is the thought leading technology.

Presentations from emerging companies was part of the conference. Like any of these event, there was a broad spectrum of quality. The presenting companies were ranked by a couple of grumpy old men off to the side: Marc Cantor being the more grumpy of the two. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch was supposed to be there, but did not make it.

At the end of the conference, just prior to a crazy party at the Odeon, the Next Web awards were announced. We had entered Sxipper into the highly competitive beta category (Joost won). OpenID won the disruptors category, displacing Joost, Netvibes.