Steve

Google - All your data are belong to us (Download Squad)

Mar 8th 2006 11:24AM The mention of universal personalization and the lighthouse comment point me to suspect a ws_auth system. Orkut is now using your gmail for user authentication and that makes a lot of sense. It would be very much a system like micrsoft started with passport and pulled.

Users need a single trusted site that can federate identity with all other sites. We need such an infrastructure to build identity driven solutions. I am involved with CACert (www.cacert.org) for the same reason. A common trusted personalization service that is community based.