“I’ve had an OpenID for nearly 2 months now, and I have to say I’m really enjoying the ease and simplicity it offers.”

Extensive list of tips to avoid identity theft, financial loss and other crimes.

Everyone’s questions from Vidoop are answered by Amy, awesome post, thanks!

“Anybody following Identity/Privacy today is rooting for OpenID. They look like the good guys and they have momentum. However the purchase of Credentica by Microsoft in March was below most people’s radar screens. You would need a keen interest in Identity/Privacy and Cryptography to have taken notice…”

· Study of 13,300 consumers showed 59% did not trust their mobile device to provide secure transactions.

· Consumers most reluctant to using a mobile device for this are: France (86%), the UK (79%), Australia (78%), Belgium and Italy (both 77%) and the US (71%).

· Only 9% said they currently use mobile devices to conduct financial transactions like credit cards payments, money transfers and deposits.

· 21% of Germans said they already use their mobile phones for this purpose, the highest percentage of any country in the survey.

· UK respondents had the lowest percentage of people already using their mobile phones, at 1%.

This presentation gives a basic overview of OpenID and the issues involved with using it to manage username/password combinations and profiles for social websites.

Harvard Business School Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) had its annual conference in Anaheim, CA yesterday. Among the presentations, the two that I enjoyed the most were ‘Ten Trends in Technology’ by Dave Berkus, and ‘Marketing in a Web 2.0 World’ by panelists Michael Parker, Brian Dunn, Chris Messina, Patrick Chanezon, with moderator David Bailey.

Sean Ammirati of mSpoke, Chris Messina of Vidoop, Dave Morin of Facebook, Adam Nash of LinkedIn, David Recordon of Six Apart, and Kevin Chou of Watercool on stage at GSP East 2008.

· A Colorado man has been ordered to pay $6 million in damages and legal fees for spamming thousands of MySpace users.

· Scott Richter has been accused of sending out up to more than 100 million spam messages per day during a certain time period.

· He must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in legal fees.

· At the time these spam messages were sent they only had two relatively junior staff employees to deal with the issues.

· The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and phone company KDDI Corp said they have received a license to set up an online bank that would target busy people with 24-hour service.

· The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ is Japan’s largest bank and KDDI Corp is the number two phone company in Japan.

· Most banks in Japan do not offer 24-hour ATM services or take cash cards from oversee lenders.

· The bank, called Jibun Bank, will allow bank holders to make online payments through their mobile phones or PCs when it opens in mid-July.

· The bank plans to later provide foreign-currency-based accounts, loans, credit card services and insurance.

· The new bank is targeting 2.4 million accounts.

“In a press announcement that sent ripples throughout the business community yesterday, Edelman, one of the largest PR firms in the world, proclaimed that the agency was doing a complete about-face radically shifting direction. The firm has staked “its claim in ‘Authentic Communications.’” ….

Good FAQ from Yahoo! regarding their OpenID provider, practices, and available resources.