Identity Companies
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Little Companies
These are all startup's that have a major focus on identity technologies that have planed a significant role in moving the technology forward.
Cordance
Cordance originally developed XRI/XDI (as XNS) and assigned the patents to XDI.org. It currently manages the top-level of the iNames registry.
- Website: http://www.cordance.net,
- Key person: Drummond Reed.
- Date began in Identity:
JanRain
Runs myOpenID.com (OpenID provider), created Pibb (communications and reputation platform), and has created a number of widely-used OpenID libraries.
- Website: http://janrain.com/
- Key person: Larry Drebes
- Date began in Identity:
NetMesh
Netmesh's Infogrid enables people to manage their information flow through a strong sense of identity.
- Website: http://netmesh.us
- Key Person: Johannes Ernst
- Date began in Identity:
ooTao
The enterprise guys who have built the systems that many iBrokers use. They have also developed Wingaa, a set of identity aggregation services for Registrars.
- Website:http://ootao.com/
- Key Person: Andy Dale
- Date began in Identity:
Parity
Pariity's founders lead the Higgins project. Pariity is creating hosted tools to help relying parties and claim providers implement Higgins with a minimal amount of work.
- Website: http://www.pariity.com
- Key People: Paul Trevithick, Mary Ruddy, Drummond Reed
- Date began in Identity:
Ping
Delivers secure Internet single sign-on software and services for over 150 customers worldwide and is a market leader in enterprise federated identity management.
- Website: http://www.pingidentity.com
- Key People: Andre Durand
- Date began in Identity:
Sxip
Sxip is an early company in the identity space. Their current project is Sxipper, a Firefox plugin that accurately fills in forms, manages passwords and safely logs you in.
- Website: http://www.sxip.com/
- Key People: Dick Hardt
- Date began in Identity:
Vidoop
- Website: http://www.vidoop.com
- Key People: Luke Sontang
- Date began in Identity:
Big Companies
These companies began participating in the Idnetity Gang and contributing to projects around user centric identity. Their participation is described
