Ross Mayfield posits at barcamp there could be a phenomena called location theft.
When talking about this and he shared that this would apparently this already happens with DodgeBall in NYC. The founders of the company would do that so that they would not get swarmed
Poking around I found reference to it but with a different [...]
I often think my country of origin would do things like the following from the Winsor Star:
The federal cabinet will review new legislation this fall that would give police and security agencies vast powers to begin surveillance of the Internet without court authority.
The new measures would allow law-enforcement agents to intercept personal e-mails, text messages [...]
I listened to this podcast last night and was surprised to learn that national science foundation is funding the building of a really cool DataWeb. Enjoy…Noshir Contractor at MeshForum 2005
Dr. Contractor presents a multi-theoretical multilevel model of using technologies to understand knowledge and social network organization through the discussion of real-world examples. From the ‘Lovegety’ [...]
From Marc Canter
Doc and I are doing a panel on the ‘OpenWeb’ so I hope folks come or at least tune-in via webcast or IRC. But the AO conference WILL be propogated by VCs and rich people – and I prefer hanging out with normal people the best.
That’s why I love Gnomedex. I sure hope [...]
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DESPITE FIERCE CRITICISM from Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, ICANN has decided to go ahead and create a new TLD (Top Level Domain) aimed at mobile phones and other mobile devices.
.tel
ICANN hasn’t posted it on their website yet, but according to one of their board members, the .tel top-level domain was approved.” notellmo.tel [...]
Like I said before I am going through the backlog of snipits in my blog posting tool and finding some cool stuff. Here are two great posts on the Future Salon site that are worth thinking about in terms of identity.
They point to an issue in business week, a book by a nobel prize winner [...]
I went to BlogHer, didn’t blog a whole lot about it. Mary Hodder was of course an inspiration with new ideas for us to consider. She has started thespeakers wiki so we can find new and interesting people to talk and particularly highlighting cool women doing cool work in technology. (I am still trying [...]
This week I joined Attention Trust. Steve Gilmore is the president and Mary Hodder is the Chair of the advisory board. It seems like a great application for the Identity systems we are working on.
What Matters?
What does matter is a pool of attention metadata owned by the users. This open cloud of reputational presence [...]
One of the things that I have always been inspired by since first going to Planetwork’s first conference in 2000 is the potential of these tools do do good. Johannes posted this on the Empowered citizen after the London Bombings and is a great reminder to consider why digital identity is important to continue building. [...]
Eugene just did a great post about Free Identity as a recommendation of what should fill out Jimmy Wale’s post from wikimania of 10 things that need to be free.
Here is a sumary of the top 10 so far
1. Free the Encyclopedia!
2. Free the Dictionary!
3. Free the Curriculum!
4. Free the Music!
5. Free the Art!
6. Free [...]
I had a really busy two weeks. It ended finally on Friday with the NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network) Conference on Emerging Technology. I got to hang with some of my favorite folks from the NonProfit Tech world but more on that later. One of the good things was we keynote talk [...]
There was a great panel on Women in Open Source at OSCON. It raised some very interesting issues including the open question of why there is 10x fewer women in Open Source then in the regular tech industry (as programmers and technical roles). Worth thinking about more and I hope that O’Reilly and others [...]
Stowe Boyde and Drummond are going back and forth about tagging
Post 1 by Stowe
Post 2 by Stowe
Post 3 by Drummond
Post 4 by Stowe
Post 5 by Drummond
Sorry we shifted it again the other way the Internet Identity Workshop will be October 26-27th.
We only announced it yesterday and found out that one of the key players in the ecology could not make the dates we set so we have adapted and shifted to the 24th and 25th of October. This new date reality will soon be reflected on the announcement page.
The first day of OSCON05 was great.
I had a meeting with a potential client for Integrative Activism in the morning went to downtown and picked up more business cards and headed to the Airport.
I had an identity ‘incident’ after making it through security. I went to add minutes to my phone and some how got [...]
DizzyD presented on Passel and The Identity Gang is in the HOUSE! Johanes, Doc, Phil, Mary and Mary – wow three identity women.
He also didn’t really approach it right he didn’t get all the different systems and how they worked and we were all in the audience correcting him. It really highlighted the [...]
Ok in the treasure trove of yet to be posted posts is this gem from OSCON. R0ml gave an amazing (part II) of his talk that he did not complete last year. He will likely give part three the conclusion next year. The audience will be eagerly anticipating it. Here is the [...]
Drummond just posted a fantastic articulation how on might use XRI to do open tagging. Some of you may not be following the emergence of Tagging in the blogoshpere but it is really real with many services now empowering their members to tag. It has exploded so much that they have begun he [...]
This is the first of what we hope to be an annual event about Digital
Identity and Human Rights covering social issues, policy and
legislation in this arena.
The goal is to foster international cooperation on virtual rights
through high quality dialogue and deliberation between legislators,
researchers, service providers, and citizens.
The symposium will begin in September with interaction online both
synchronous [...]
I recently got an e-mail with this at the bottom – a low tech way to assert privacy and ownership. This email is: [ ] blogable [ ] ask first [X] private
There’s been considerable conversation around identity on the Internet, or what some would call grassroots identity. Providing identity services between people, websites, and organizations that may or may not have any kind of formalized relationship is a different problem than providing authentication and authorization services within a single organization. Many have argued that the lack [...]
danah boyd talked briefly about this new initiative at BlogHer yesterday. FUSE is the name of the new initiative that Jeff Weiner from Yahoo outlined at SuperNova.
I had fun at BlogHer I did my first podcast there with Halley (you can see the picture over on Marc’s site) It was about 10 [...]
Jerry Michalskiis going to be doing an experiment tomorrow – Monday night at the Hillside club.
At this Fireside Meeting, Jerry will blend a performance piece that involves the audience and a piece of concept-mapping software called TheBrain with a thesis he’s developing that will either have you grinning enthusiastically or throwing spoiled vegetables. It’s an [...]