Dear Marketing: An Open Letter From Your Customer
by Chris Maher of Fosforus
Opening:
Over the years, I have had an uneasy relationship with you. I’ve not cared one bit for being your prospect. And, as it seems that being your customer is just an extension of a permanent, unrelenting and ever-more-intrusive marketing campaign, I’m not nuts about [...]
There is and Identity Workshop Birds of a Feather meeting at the Open Source Convention next week on Wednesday August 3rd from 7:30pm to 8:30pm.
Marc Canter had a great week at Always On. The Identity Hub took a step forward with the announcement of the GoingOn Network.
(I didn’t make it because I was hanging out with the Spiritual Activists in a different part of the Bay Area looking for clients for Integrative Activism.)
I got to hang out [...]
This article was slashdotted today.
TSA had promised it would only use the limited information about passengers that it had obtained from airlines. Instead, the agency and its contractors compiled files on people using data from commercial brokers and then compared those files with the lists.
The GAO reported that about 100 million records were collected.
The 1974 [...]
July Planetwork FOCUS on DIGITAL IDENTITY TOOLS
Thursady, July 28th doors at 6, program at 7
CIIS, Namaste Hall,3rd Floor
1453 Mission St. San Francisco (2 blocks from Civic Center BART)
With my emerging persona as Identity Woman curated this line up that provides a great opportunity to learn more about some of the latest tools for [...]
First of all thanks to Cordance, Opinity and ooTao who supported me in representing them and the whole ecology of folks around Identity Commons. It was a great week with lots of fruitful networking.
Jamie you are the calmest conference organizer I have ever met. Your staff was together and very helpful. Thanks!
Here are [...]
This article was Slashdotted…
Tourists visiting Disney theme parks in Central Florida must now provide their index and middle fingers to be scanned before entering the front gates.
The scans were formerly for season pass holders but now everyone must provide their fingers, Local 6 News reported. They have reportedly been phased in for all ticket holders [...]
Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference was great for several reasons. One of them included the fact they actually had a BOF (Birds of a Feather) session for Canadians.
Last time I was in Seattle over at Kim Cameron and Adel’s house enjoying a glass of wine before dinner with Paul Trevithick, Drummond myself. Drummond was the [...]
One of the most interesting things here at Catalyst has been the expression taoist quotes related to the identity.
Today’s Opening Slide
The Tao of Identity
Though thirty spokes may form a wheel,
it is the hole within the hub
which gives the wheel utility.
It is not the clay the potter throws,
which gives the pot its usefulness,
but the space within [...]
This is a summary of Bob Blakley’s talk at Burton Catalyst:
Opening – Sermon on Laws
Laws of Planetary Motion
Kim’s Laws what happens to Identity if you make stupid or subtle mistakes
Newtons Law – gravity
Why things happen
Introduction – Looking Back Digital Signatures
A while back we decided we needed non-repudiation and did digital signatures by issuing certificates.
We forgot [...]
Dick – had a 580 slide deck done Lessig Style
This is a summary of his talk:
We found out about Dick’s Identity
We learned a about what Identity is
What I say about me
What other say about me (others trust this)
So,
identity=reputaiton
What others say about you
We learned about Identity Transactions:
Verbal in person (with visual cues)
Talk on phone (loss [...]
So one of the things the folks building the i-name services will be building in with global launch is reputation services provided by Opinity (http://www.opinity.com) for messaging (e-mail, IM, phone calls etc.). The goal is to build in feedback to prevent bad behavior.
One of the instigators of the Berkeley Breakfast Cabal Ben Gross is [...]
Jamie Lewis is giving a great talk here at his conference on User-Centrism Meets Polycentrism: Creating Identity Infrastructure for the Internet. One of the things that he mentioned was Identity Commons and my representation of that ecology here at the conference.
He also highlighted the fact that reputation systems have a role to play. [...]
On Monday I was at Advocacy Dev II. I got to meet Steve Anderson who has just joined ONE/NorthWest an network of 300+ environmental groups in the Cascadia – Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
I thought I would post his introduction to give you enterprise guys who read this blog a sense of what the IT [...]
Phil Windley has some great posts covering the Identity Gang meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
This is drawn from David Temoshok’s Talk. He is the Director of Identity Policy and Management GSA Office of Government Policy
Homeland security directive 12
“Policy for Common Identification Standard For Federal Employees and Contractors” – August 2004
HSPD 12 Requirements
1. Secure and reliable forms of personal identification that are:
Based on sound criteria to verify an individual employee’s [...]
This week the cover of Business week is Embracing Illegals. The frame is about how businesses see the 11 million+ ‘illegal immigrants’ as a great market opportunity. To function economically in western capitalism you need identity documents to be part of the ‘representation system‘ that enables trusted value generation and exchange.
It dives into detail [...]
Sun is doing a “Crazy Ivan” (from the Hunt for Red October)
They are releasing OpenSSO- under CDDL license (they same one they did under Solaris dirived from Mozilla.)
Assertions made in talk: Sun the number two contributer to open source on the planet only behind Cal Berkeley. Mmm. ok.
One of the most interesting things Scott mentioned today was the proposed Leahy-Spector Bill in congress that would regulate identity brokers and come into effect in June 2005.
- Enact a bevy of new regulations that cover “data brokers,” defined as business or non-profits “in the practice of collecting, transmitting, or otherwise providing personally identifiable information [...]
Simpatico Networks – so far there are no blog posts about them.
They link out to the who’s who of social media on the blogoshpere from their Social Networking 2.0 including ClayShirky, danah boyd, Dave Weinberger, Many-to-Many, Ross Mayfield, Stowe Boyd – my friend Jerry Michalski and Wikipedia.
Seems like their current implementations are focused on different [...]
This was from the Future Salon:
Outer Space (the world around us: science, the natural and built environment, universal systems theory)
Human Space (the human world: our bodies, behavior, minds, human systems theory)
Inner Space (the world below: energy, small tech, computer “bodies”, inner systems theory)
Cyber Space (the virtual world: computer “behavior”, computer “minds”, cyber systems theory)
Hyper Space [...]
So this a reprint… it was on my old blog.
To clarify for those of you confused my comments are indented and in italics. I never did get to publishing part two either. Hopefully this week.
I heard this talk on June 17 at the Cato Institute / The Economist Luncheon LIberty, Technology and Prosperity in [...]
Found in this article about next generation phone apps with interesting identity applications.
Curious about the people around you? Pantopic takes the openness, and, well, ‘browseability’ of an online community into the real world. Once you install pantopic, your phone becomes like a webpage that only people in your immediate area can [...]
Scott Mace has a great interview on Opening Move with Scott Chaise.
I would recommend it to understand the current state of ‘trusted’ e-mail and open standards as they come out.
Finally, the war on spam is shifting to controlling outbound email traffic. This has profound implications for Internet service providers and for their customers. Zombie spambot [...]
If you want an identity as a citizen journalist there are Flickr Photographer Press Passes available here.
This post on the comodifiication of Web 2.0. It is worth reading to begin to understand microforamts and why identity is important to make them even cooler.
A while back there was the DIY RFID that I blogged about. Today there is this story in the Financial Times about exclusive clubs offering their most prestigious patrons embedded chips the size of a rice grain to give them privileged access to their clubs. It has a whole history of this technology.
One [...]
Collaborative Filtering and Identity from John Udell. A use case we should be thinking about.
What if one would create a crawler application that, using all of these sources, could compine a complete “view” of my digital online self?
The problem though, is that “social” internet tools, that effectively visualize this stuff, are not all that common [...]
Doc is an endless source of amazement and wisdom. He has been communicating about this stuff so clearly for so long one wonders why they are not listening. At least the identity gang is.
The Net is a World
Craig Burton:
Think of the Net as a hollow sphere made entirely of people and resources it connects.
- [...]
So this talk at SuperNova got a lot of buzz. I think it worth thinking about more in the context of identity because one of the things we do with identity is assert presence information. We also use multiple identities when CPAing – e-mail, IM handle, login on a website, IRC handle. [...]
Here is a talk by Buzz Bruggeman about the power of blogging. I hope that those in the identity commons network/community can come to understand more about why I think our blogging and presence at key events and conversations is vital to our success. Our success will be determined by the power of our [...]
I just found the Creative Commons Licensed Open Business Guide Via the Fast Company Blog(I heard they are going out of business I hope this is not true because I love them). I think we should take advantage of this forum and share ideas for open standards based identity business models.
This looks really cool….
Against this [...]
Canada has some crazy laws too. I kind of was thinking of Canada where I was born as the ‘friendly’ nation to the north but it seems not to be true .
Before privacy laws or the Charter, there was little if anything to stop police or national security operatives from cajoling or coercing information [...]
Farmers in third world countries leaving the land to ‘farm’ for gold in online games to sell to other avatars (digital identities of a type). The virtual ’sweatshop labour’. I hope the college activists turn there attention to this issue too.
Net heads may think this is cool and those enamored with the over taking [...]
This guest post on Discourse.net is quite interesting – the perspective of young folks working in government moving blindly through the system is an interesting one to remember. The highlighted part seems to highlight what is going on with the US government ( FCC & Commerce Department ) and the ICANN
The O’Connor resignation, [...]
So I wondered reading the below quote if the MS/HP National Identity System followed the Identity Laws that Kim has authored. The frame of this Techsploits column Hot for Data By Annalee Newitz does not make it sound like it does.
I was particularly squicked to hear about a new product from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft [...]
I just found this link to Planet 2.0. Thought you all might like to know about it.
Great News!
is is a great measurable success for organization like Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure whose members, supporters and sympathizers have fought against the insane idea of software patent for more then four years (more info on euro software patents on the organization site).
This whole set of issues around DNS, ICANN and the US Commerce Department that came out at the end of June is relevant for us identity folk do reflect upon given the upcoming discussions about governance of the identity layer.
From ID Corner comes this story about Belgium Identity Cards.
The card provides strong security against traditional outsider attacks, but unfortunately has not been designed with privacy in mind. In fact, it features one of the worst privacy designs imaginable. Two glaring problems:
The citizen certificates on each ID chipcard contain the cardholder’s name and RRN (the [...]
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