Information cards for consumers, take two

OpenID does a much better job at explaining itself (e.g. http://openid.net/about.bml). The whole Information Card space looks to be in the early stages and not really consumer ready. Kim mentioned that Windows Live ID will adopt information cards later this summer. I bet that will spawn a bunch of copywriting around what an information card is and how to use it.

I wouldn't put sole ownership of writing consumer material on Microsoft though. As you notied the information card infrastructure is bigger than MS. That being said, they are one of the better funded companies running with it at the moment. Too bad Wikipedia is too technical to reference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Card).

Worth noting - InformationCard.net is owned by Microsoft. :)

Rest assured we'll be readying consumer-ready content and resources for CardSpace and information cards over the next 12 months.

Just commented on this subject on my blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/richardt/archive/2007/06/20/the-chicken-and-the-egg.aspx