Office 2.0 begins

I was at the Office 2.0 pre-conference reception this evening…another very .com experience… EVERYONE was given an 2G ipod nano. It was sort of unbelievable (I thought initially I just got one because I am a speaker). I already have one (I bought it the first week they were out a year ago). I was thinking since I lost my camera at DIDW and I am really missing it (A Cannon Elph SD600) that I would trade the nano with someone who had a digital camera (perhaps if they are upgrading to something else). Just e-mail me if you are up for it.
From an OpenID/iname perspective people really liked to hear that there was an SSO solution. Ramana Rao who is on one of the closing panels said they were musing about the what where the things that if they didn’t happen would mean that this office 2.0 stuff would not succeed…Single-Sign-On was one of the things they had already thought of.
I met Robert Mao from UUZone a Social Network site in China with 6 million users. He is going to be giving them all OpenID’s and has convinced the ‘flickr of china’ to also adopt OpenID. They will both accept and issue OpenID’s. He also tole me about about OpenID.cn (they have a fun logo). I encouraged him to let people know about the Internet Identity Workshop in December – so who knows maybe we will have some more people from Asia there.
It was fun to see Mark Finnern along with his wife Marie and their baby Nina..yes a baby at a cocktail party it was really nice to see.