This morning at WITI Cindy Solomon gave a keynote on courage – what it is and how to bring it into your work and life. It was quite introspective not a typical talk at any of the tech conferences I go to.
At lunch we had a talk about climate change [...]
Robin Raskin ‘the internet mom’ has a site called Raising Digital Kids and blogs for Yahoo! Tech. She lead the ‘What is web 2.0?’ panel. She did a great job of helping orient the mostly ‘I work in large corporate IT’ folks. The woman who worked for Microsoft highlighted that it was [...]
I am not sure what Craig Burton intends by pointing to this video and saying it is ‘identity man’ charging towards the identity big bang. perhaps he can explain more.
Cathy Siera is a great presenter because every time I see her I learn something (I am not just entertained).
Her latest post talks about where to start when you are doing a presentation. I think this is a great set of things to think about when trying to communicate about identity topics. Maybe we [...]
Users matter. They matter a lot when it comes to user-centric identity. I think we as a community have a lot to work on in the UX (user-experience) department to figure out how to make all these protocols actually work for people (clearly the underlying architecture is there to do some cool stuff – [...]
Cathy Sierra is a great presenter because every time I see her I learn something (I am not just entertained).
Her latest post talks about where to start when you are doing a presentation. Good advice we can all use when thinking about how to communicate about identity.
I just read a link to this on Slashdot. I am quite concerned about what it says.
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, [...]
I met Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch at Office 2.0. He just let me know about their Open Garden Germinate contest. They want to great ideas about features.
This comment was posted by Vivek Puri at the bottom of Ramana’s post (quoted above).
OpenID is great idea, but adds another layer of complexity for early adopters. This might not go down well with the startups who can end up loosing important initial users. Also bigger companies like Google will offer Single Sign-on only for [...]
Ramana Rao was on the closing panel at Office 2.0 and put forward this question:
I asked a few vendors if they would support OpenID for login if say 25 other Office 2.0 vendors would, and I generally got a pause, and then what appeared to be qualified nodding. Well, frankly if this simple matter can’t [...]
So it seems slashdot is full of interesting identity related stories this week.
We have the ’spying into laptops when you cross the boarder’ story from the NYTimes. (any container is searchable this means your hard disk on your lap top [I suppose avoiding this search is one of the advantages to storing information in the [...]
About two weeks ago Aldo interviewed Eugene and I about Identity Commons. It was just posted this morning. So enjoy.
Yesturday was a rich day for identity related stories.
Feds Start Small on Smart IDs talks about the start of the roll out of
The use of personal identity verification, or PIV, cards for verifying the identities of all federal workers and contractors was mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12. The unfunded HSPD-12 mandate specified [...]
Here are some of the great quotes about OpenID this week –
Tom in Austin says:
I’m a big fan of OpenID and I think it’s on the edge of greatness.
Norman Walsh:
Next time you build a web application that needs a login, consider OpenID.
btbytes:
Perhaps in future, sign-up fatigue will keep people away from signing up [...]
Technorati announced support for OpenID blog claiming. And it got tech crunched!!!!
For all you tech crunchers coming to visit me. I want to invite you to the Internet Identity Workshop December 4-6 in Mountainview . It is going to be super fantastic and you can get to participate in the OpenID and [...]
Craig Burton points people to a list of links from MSDN for those who want to know more about CardSpace.
Thomas Hawk writes “One of the most interesting things to come out of Yahoo’s earnings call with analysts yesterday was a statement by Yahoo’s COO, Daniel L. Rosenweig on Yahoo’s plans to ‘monetize’ their various social network properties. Flickr was mentioned five times on the conference call and their de.lic.io.us property was as well, after [...]
Google is extending and integrating DodgeBall with its other services. Chris Mesina writes about it. Why should people be forced into integrating their accounts because one of the big silo’s buys them. People really don’t want to do that. Perhaps their DodgeBall persona is really different then their one for sharing spreadsheets with [...]
I wrote in my post about DreamForce conference about SalesForce.com that I met.
Khadijah from MassCOSH (the Massachusets Coalition for Ocupational Saftey and Health). She had a great story of frustration that speaks to the reality…she went with Drupal and and was optimistic about the potential of the platform but was totally disappointed by the tool [...]
The Identity Commons wiki was upgraded to moinmoin 1.5.5a and it looks beautiful. We also have our first Stewards Council meeting today. Things are looking good.
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). [...]
Yesturday I went to DreamForce the Salesforce.com conference..the thing is that it is a meta-conference… a sales conference about sales.
The Nonprofit Track: It was great to see my nonprofit tech buddies, Steve who runs the Sales Force Foundation, Katrin who is the leader of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, Leda from Dot Organize, a new [...]
For those of you who don’t know I happened to have a Minor in Demography. When you think about it – Demography is sort of the opposite of individual ‘identity’ it does aggregate measures of people across whole populations.
This story peaked my interest not because it highlights the total US population count but the [...]
My friend Allison Fine finally got her book published – Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age. On her blog she writes about engaging with the digital world. Her perspective is great because she is relatively normal. Living outside New York with her husband and three sons. She understands the power of [...]
I thought you could clarify how you think SAML will help with this.
While multiple screen names can be tracked at home, the company is working on a tool to associate different screen names across school and home to notify parents.
Isn’t the whole point of the Laws of Identity that people should not have there [...]
They are talking about us over there but … we can’t see what they are saying. I know because they linked out to me.
I was just send this link to a post and its 6 updates that describe the fate of uncovering an cable company astroturf blog. The guy who founded the astroturf blog used his real name originally and then changed it. It was relatively easy for the sleuth to figure it out who was [...]
I went to Cal today (for those of you not in the know that is the University of California at Berkeley – the first school in the UC system so it is “California”). It was homecoming weekend but I really went because there was a Men’s Water Polo Game – vs Stanford. I played [...]
This is going to be a fun week. I was up at Iovation the last week of September. They invited Placial and JanRain over to talk Identity at the end of my day with them. They are integrating OpenID into one of the products they are showing at DreamForce. This inspired me [...]
Leafar pinged me this we to point me over to his map of the Virtual Identity 0.2 = Personal Universe = my (omega)
It is a neat little graph with two axes Private <–> Public and Main Activities <–> Entertainment.
In the Private Main Activities is Real Virtual Life ‘What I virtually do’.
Moving across the top there [...]
I just went to Tech Crunch and saw this post on IMSafer that fliters kids IM messages and shares questionable ones with parents. It looks like a reasoned approach that kids and parents can live with. I know that if I was a kid out there on the wild open web this would make [...]