$200 Billion Broadband Scandal was posted to a list I am on today.
New investigative ebook offers micro-history of Verizon, SBC, Qwest, and BellSouth’s (the Bell companies) fiber optic broadband promises and the consequence harms to America’s economic growth because they never delivered and kept most of the money, about $200 billion.
New York: This is one [...]
Scoble just did this long… post on conferences and the issues around creating them. Adding to Jeff Jarvis’ post here.
I left this comment….
Hey Scoble,
We in the identity community are trying to figure out the venue thing too. 1st key is a place that lets you bring in outside catoring.
We are also doing 75% open [...]
Today I have had two analogue-digital clashes. Or perhaps digital loops that had to pass through an analogue phase
I went to the bank to get a print out of all the transactions on my account recently – so I could notify them of the fraudulent ones. You would think that i could tell a [...]
This really happened believe it or not. It is not ElastaGirl pretending to be me or someone named Identity Chick emerging on the scene. I had my one bank/credit card counterfited used for transactions and draining my bank account to well below zero.
I knew something was wrong when on friday I got a [...]
This is from the SD Forum on Interoperability January 31, 2006.
Prateek Mishra – Oracle
What is the identity problem?
It is stuck in a few places at employwer, bank and you want to
how does your identity get from your identity provider – the places were you have defined your identity to all these business processes and services.
We [...]
This morning getting to the SD Forum I had an adventure getting there. I was going to take the train but missed it. Got to the light rail but missed the train that was in the station…then got the next one. Got of one stop to late – Great American instead of Old Ironsides. [...]
I managed to make it to make it to the SD Forum at TechMart this morning.
I caught the end of Anne Thomas Manes’ talk. Her was her last slide –
Interoperability is the goal
Standards are the solution
Standardization takes time
Vendors typically do the standardization
Venders always pursue their own agenda
Dana Boyde is working on her PhD at at UC Berkeley. She is about to move to LA to do field research with youth. I read her blog regularly and a lot of what is happening is that youth, there use of technology and exploration of identity. I wanted to share this [...]
Ajay did a great job presenting Celibrate yesterday at etel the XRI/XDI based service from Amsoft. It generated a lot of good buzz.
Rick Ringel (yes this is his real name) presented this Declaration of Network Independence at etel that will resonate deeply with the user-centric identity community.
Declaration of Network Independence
that among these are
Identity -> Existence -> Life
Mobility -> Movement -> Passage -> Freedom -> LIberty
And the pursuit of Innovation
Unalienable Right to Identity – Independent of [...]
Mobile Jones …
Jazz, an application that provides audio messaging to yet another circle of friends. More invites….more buddy lists….
There were so many identity silos at the etel.
Each phone handset has one for address books –
Motorola,
Nokia
Telecom Incumbents
Orange(france telecom),
British Telecom
Cool “apps”
YackPack
Jazz
The Incumbent internet players
ebay/Paypal/skype [PESk]
Yahoo!
Google (using Jabber)
Microsoft
So Brad Templeton brought his portable phone.
More pictures here…with it on the cart with folks actually making calls….
(go on and look…they are worth it for the chuckle)
[I would post them in my blog ...can't drag and drop into ecto and get it to actually publish though - sorry]
This is a post IDs: where do they lead … ? by Bill Anderson that is great.
Bill and I were introduced by Jerry Michalski – (sociate) and have had quite a few great conversations over the past year. He did this post in early December that I just found. I though you would [...]
Norman Lewis from Fance Telecome just presented made a bold statment that ‘the web 2.0 business model’ as monopoly capitalism. Getting investments and then being bought by the big guys.
I just found out about this Firefox extension by Ted Rheingold of Dogster Fame called who is that person.
I posted my first Firefox extension. It’s called ‘Whois This Person’ and it’s a simple little right-click menu item which will query any name you’ve highlighted against LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Technorati, GoogleNews, Yahoo Person Search, TailRank as well [...]
Johannes and I put together the Identity Speed Geeking BOF at O’Reilly Emerging Telephony. It was a great success we had about 20 folks and 5 demonstrations.
The Digital Living Network Alliance is working on standards for cross platform interoperability. They are focused on delivering an interoperability framework of design guidelines based on open industry standards to complete the cross-industry digital convergence.
I saw it actually work today at lunch. Here is the photo from lunch.
This is the link to their site Spark Fun.
I am Etel today (and for the next two days) and watching this great DIY presentation by Brian Capouch from Saint Joseph’s College. He is giving us all the tricks and tips to get rural wireless networks going for farmers.
The biggest challenges – racoons who turn the switch on the box on [...]
This is the message that I got today when I logged into a new collaborative atlas site Platial.
Thank you, we have sent you an email to confirm you are you. After you confirm who you are, you may log in.
All sending you an e-mail and clicking on a link does is prove that you [...]
Last weekend I was hanging out in a cabin with ‘no’ internet. There is internet about a mile down the road…Liz and made pilgramage there and described it as ‘going to the internet’. This way of framing the outing is interesting because the metaphor we use to describe it…a place worthy of protection of freedom [...]
This movie is very similar to the Googlezon ‘future documentary’. It is set 10 years in the future (2015) and shares a narrative of the unfolding of new finical market structures. AmazonBay is competing with GoogleCorp in this one though. Worth viewing here.
This was the big identity event that I missed while I was away. The good thing about podcasting is that you get to listen to it after it is recorded. There was a question that Doc asked John Clippinger about where he really got involved with the identity conversation…he really was a bit stumped [...]
At the Syndicate Conference Seth Goldstein and Steve Gilmore were on screen talking about Attention Trust (via Isight). Seth started talking about how delicious sold for x-million dollars and that meant that Yahoo paid them between $30 and $100 for a persons links in the system. Seth said that as users start of figure [...]
I am excited to read about this effort Democracy 2.0. I know a lot of folks that have been working hard on innovative upgrades to our current democracy among them Tom Attlee and the National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation. This year there was also the release of Extreme Democracy.
I am hoping that [...]
I have been listening to Aldo’s Identity Podcasts a lot this week to prepare for my first interview with Jim Fournier tomorrow. Mark was the last guy he interviewed from Sun and he mentioned the Identity Map in his blog after his son got “100 things we love about David.” Now I get [...]
I came across this article and it highlights wikipedia’s approach to Identity.
Wikipedia tracks unregistered users’ IP addresses — which, with a court order, can usually be traced back to a real-world identity — because it has no other way of telling if a slew of trash articles are coming from a single source. Wikipedia [...]
I abstained from Christmas for the second year in a row. It was fun to watch it all go buy and not participate. I had a few flashed of positivity that made me think next year I could get into the season again. I had papers in hand for the first time in 4 [...]
We had a huge turnout for the Drupal meetup around 36 people came at it peak. Pictures here. I posted the overall notes for the meeting here. There were two break out specific sets of notes Media and Community. It was fun to facilitate the meeting. about 1/3 of the folks [...]
So the meetup will be tomorrow. Looks like we will have a good crowd in attendance
Here is the link to the wiki with the new address.
Jo Twist wrote this article declaring 2005 the year of the Digital Citizen.