My Panel on the Social Web at DEMO

Last week I was invited to participate on a panel at the most recent DEMO Conference entitled “Social Data Sharing Will Change Lives and Business”.  I had the opportunity to show off some new functionality for the MySpaceID platform that debuted our OpenID/OAuth Hybrid flow in a pop-up as well as our new support for the Activity Streams specification.  It was great to demonstrate how we can build a portable identity platform that both embraces open standards while offering a compelling and elegant user experience.

In addition, other great contributers to the open landscape also presented.  I was joined by Joseph Smarr of Plaxo, Kevin Marks of Google, and Dave Morin from Facebook.  Our discussion on stage was moderated by Eric Eldon from VentureBeat.  It was a lively panel that dealt with the current state of openness, the importance of standards, the balance of privacy with sharing, and how we ensure user security.  You can check out the entire panel in the video below.