I spent a lot of today looking through my ‘tech’ feeds (yes I have an RSS reader going again) and found some interesting posts….
You Departed – so you can leave messages for your family after you die from Tech Crunch
Identity Theft targets pedigree poodle from Boing Boing
Why Open Source Software is Social Media from James [...]
Ok. I will give you the IDENTITY highlights first…
I lead a session on OpenID at the unconference on sunday and the two of the four guys who were at the unconference came to the session (none of the women did). They wanted me to explain what it was because they had heard the [...]
I have had a a full week at OSCON for the beginning and BlogHer for the weekend. I was still in Chicago still at the W hotel as I wrote this yesturday.
So I will start-off with Slashdot Headlines:
Terms of Service for Online services can not be changed without notifying users. YEAH!
Hopefully this will create [...]
I picked up a copy of the June 2007 issue of Release 2.0 at OSCON’s Executive Breifing – Lawrence Lessig is interviewed in there and it is SCARY.
What are you most worried bout now? That 9/11 event on the Net …what comes after it. Recently I was talking to a senior government official, someone who [...]
This Horror story is why I don’t trust telco’s AT ALL. ($3000 bill for the iPhone) I am very willing to pay reasonable price for reasonable service. I am not sure why this is hard for them to GRASP but being raked over the coals.
THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE getting into the spectrum auction [...]
I flew to Portland on Monday to attend OSCON. There was a BOF about Women in Open Source that had a goal to folks on the ‘what is next’ as opposed to support for experiences that women have had. A few books were mentioned:
Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology
Unlocking the Clubhouse Women in [...]
I am down here at Mashup Camp that I am facilitating tomorrow and the next day. At the social hour around the pool I ran in to Joseph Smarr and got the scoop.
“We’re releasing full OpenID relying-party support, so you’ll be able to sign up for a Plaxo account using an OpenID and/or attach [...]
From the Stars and Stripes.
Biometric database helps U.S. track Iraqis, Afghans
Commentary by me below the article quotes
Many details of the database are classified, but according to Joint Multinational Readiness Center strategic planner Arnie Geisler, who helps train U.S. troops in Germany, it is being compiled by soldiers using equipment that scans an individual’s retina [...]
This story is interesting for a few reasons. It raises the question about plain old names. I think this is going to become more and more of an issue with google ranks and potentially other social networks mattering so much. More commentary on a tangent below.
A Porn Star Stole My Name:Texas woman claims old [...]
FBI datamining for more then just terrorists:
“Computerworld reports that the FBI is using data mining programs to track more than just terrorists. The program’s original focus was to identify potential terrorists, but additional patterns have been developed for identity theft rings, fraudulent housing transactions, Internet pharmacy fraud, automobile insurance fraud, and health-care-related fraud. From the [...]
The Interop Event last week at Burton Group Catalyst was a huge milestone. The event lived up to its name…
cat·a·lyst [kat-l-ist] -noun
A person or thing that precipitates an event or change.
The energy in the room was really high. Everyone was excited. People said there was interest from enterprises (the attendees at the conference [...]
First thanks to Ted Leung who took this photo last year at Gnomedex when it was Canada Day and we sang Oh Canada.
Canada day is a great Day particularly for all of us in Identity who are Canadian. The list is long and I don’t know everyone who is in the community and is Canadian. [...]
I read The Day the Music Dies in the SF Weekly yesterday. I had heard about this issue but didn’t realize it was so pressing. I am a huge Pandora Listener – I love it because I don’t remember music names and stuff…I don’t have a “music brain” but I like music…so I put [...]
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