Identity is part of Firefox 2.0 plan as described by Dan Farber of ZDNet in Firefox accelerating development cycle.
Beard also said that the Mozilla team is exploring presence and identity. “We are in the exploratory phase. Increasingly your life and data are on the Web. We have made an initial survey across the industry–Microsoft [Infocards), Sxip and Ping–but we haven’t made any design or architectural decisions,” Beard said. “We are still looking at it, doing the classic ‘do we buy, build or partner’ or build hooks into different approaches. The whole space is pretty new and it remains to be seen how it will evolve.”
Glad to hear they’re looking into it. Last thing we need is something like Flock, a whole new browser just for managing your identity.
I really hope that Firefox will include some Identity 2.0 and some more Web 2.0 features, kind of like in Flock, but more extensible and more flexible
me too! (nice photo)
It is hard to make architectural decisions in such ill-defined times. I think the platform the Mozilla team is building on will allow them to react quickly as the marketplace starts to sample and select from among all the identity 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 ideas sparklin’ about the jumble.
I don’t think that Firefox icon is quite large enough here. =)
I hadn’t heard much of the roadmap beyond 1.5 – interesting.