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As I add support for information cards to Pluralsight, I'm rather surprised that I'm having trouble finding official landing pages for consumers. For example, on our logon page, there will be a button to click to log in using an information card, kind of like what you see on Kim's login page. For people who don't know what an information card is, this might be confusing, so of course we'll want a link that points to some documentation. But right now it seems as though everyone is creating their own descriptions for this. Here's Kim's what is an information card page, for example.

It seems as though it would help adoption if there were some centralized descriptions of this stuff. Do these pages exist and I'm just missing them? Or is it that Microsoft only wants to talk about CardSpace, which is their implementation of the selector? I note that when Kim wants to tell you how to install an identity selector, he points to a WordPress blog called the Pamela Project, which doesn't seem too helpful, but might be interesting for someone wanting to add support for information cards to their WordPress blog.

It seems to me that if the industry really wants consumers to start adopting information cards, somebody's going to have to explain this stuff in terms my mother can understand, and it would help to have a common place where those explanations live.


Posted Jun 05 2007, 05:48 AM by keith-brown
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Vittorio wrote re: Information cards for consumers
on 06-05-2007 9:15 AM
Keith, we do have such a description: see http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2007/06/05/end-user-friendly-description-of-cardspace-for-your-website.aspx
Vibro.NET wrote End user friendly description of CardSpace for your website
on 06-05-2007 11:13 AM
Keith mentions he cannot find a good end user description of CardSpace that can be used for introducing
Security Briefs wrote Information cards for consumers, take two
on 06-05-2007 2:20 PM
Richard Turner wrote re: Information cards for consumers
on 06-11-2007 2:45 PM
Hey Keith.

Alas, we're in a chicken-and-egg holding pattern right now. Until there are prominent consumer-oriented sites which support informaiton cards, and until organizations start issuing managed cards, there's little point educating general users about CardSpace. It'd be like issuing drivers licenses before cards and roads are built.
Security Briefs wrote The chicken and the egg
on 06-11-2007 5:03 PM