Mike Arrington outlines the details of the suite against FaceBook for $25 million in Statutory Damages
He has his own brand:
I am a very important person. Forbes recently named me No. 2 on their list of web celebrities, for example, and Business Week says I’m one of the 25 most influential people on the web.
His image [...]
I worked on this diagram of Identity Commons for a few hours last night. I hope it does a good job of getting across our loose distributed yet connected nature. Please let me know if you have ideas to improve it.
Someone already mentioned that “standards” is perhaps a challenging word – maybe it [...]
So Auren Hoffman e-mailed me regarding a blog post he just did about men and women and social networking. This subsequently pointed to his ‘research data’ which he does not disclose the way it was acquired.
There are three names for this company (more details can be seen in this post). One of them [...]
TechCrunch just did a post about OpenID asked if it was being exploited by the large internet players that are participating in the community and adopting it.
I recall the first Internet Identity Workshop when the small crowd of ‘light weight’ ‘open’ ‘distributed’ SSO efforts came together and started their conversation about how they shared [...]
OSIS Interoperability Demonstrations
TUESDAY April 8th 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Moscone South, Mezzanine Level Purple Room 220
To be able to see this you need to get an expo pass. See below on how to get one.
OSIS User centric identity network interoperability between identity providers, card selectors, browsers and websites demonstrates how users can ‘click-in’ to [...]
Sir Tim said he did not want his ISP to track which websites he visited.
Link to the Data Sharing Workshop and Summit.
There is a lot of energy right now around different ideas on how to share data across social media sites. Based on current discussions on the dataportabiltity.org lists and other places, it is clear that a range of potential standards and approaches are emerging.
The energy feels [...]
Beth Kanter one of my favorite nonprofit tech friends Twittered this article The Cute Cat Theory Talk at eTech.
It puts forward an interesting hypothesis:
Based on my Tripod experience, I’d offer the hypothesis that any sufficiently advanced read/write technology will get used for two purposes: pornography and activism. Porn is a weak test for the [...]
There is lots of coverage of the inventor of Dungeons and Dragon Mr. Gygax. I have spent a few days working with material about reputation and the difference between human knowing reputation and computational reputation. I have been thinking about how geeks and those coding social software and how for me as a community organizer [...]
This is in the NYTimes:
To get one reading of this, I asked four Web giants – AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo – a simple question: can they show you an advertisement with your name in it?
My friend Phil Wolff over at Skype Journal has been thinking about Social Network Stack – He had a great diagram there and describes it this way:
We need a new stack to sort out social media’s plumbing.
Introducing the Social Stack’s Six Zones of Interoperability.
* ID (Account lifecycles, Login)
[...]
If user-centric identity, the identity meta-system, identity commons and all this stuff is confusing.
You are wading through all this content on these blogs and wikis and going “AHHH! I just want someone to explain it.”
Well we have the group for you!
Newbies 4 Newbies formed not to be “experts” explaining it to new folks but [...]
Lessig is on to corruption this is quoted from a recent interview he gave on the subject:
One of the biggest targets of reform that we should be thinking about is how to blow up the FCC. The FCC was set up to protect business and to protect the dominant industries of communication at the time, [...]
I saw Zitrain give a piece of this talk in SF before Christmas. It was quite good. This post has a great summary of a talk about it. I highly recommend it (the post and the book).
This was on Slashdot today…and in the Telegraph:
For the first time at any airport, the biometric checks will apply to all domestic passengers leaving the terminal, which will handle all British Airways flights to and from Heathrow.
The controversial security measure is also set to be introduced at Gatwick, Manchester and Heathrow’s Terminal 1, and many [...]
In my home town paper the headline was Disconnect 1st Amendment from Internet hatemongers. The LA times version was Douse the Online Flamers: Faceless Internet sadists who ruin reputations don’t deserve full free-speech protection. Written by Andrew Keen the Cult of the Amateur guy – who wrote the book to get attention and blogs [...]
I have been thinking a lot about how the different communities working on different aspects of open standards innovation for the web can understand how they are working together with each other – in relationship.
Community Diplomacy is the name I propose for a set of patterns and practices that already happens. By naming it and [...]
Mary Hodder has a post up titled: Trashing Our Social Relationships (with Porn) to Get Your Numbers Up. It is quite insightful about the issues that aries when investment is based on ‘numbers’ rather then qualities of relationship.
This situation expresses clearly the social ‘issues’ that arise with the ‘open identity layer’ or ’social layer’ or [...]
The purpose of Identity Commons is:
The purpose of Identity Commons is to support, facilitate, and promote the creation of an open identity layer for the Internet — one that maximizes control, convenience, and privacy for the individual while encouraging the development of healthy, interoperable communities.
This one sentence jams a lot into it – we tried [...]
Here are some question asked in a recent conversation on the dataportability.org lists about IC along with my responses.
Maybe the Identity commons should be trying to set boundaries as being purely about identity?
An “open identity layer” that touches so much and there needs to be a “common space” to nash through the vastness of [...]
I have like many working for years on different aspects of building an identity meta-system where users have control. have been listening to and in some cases contributing to the conversations at dataportability.org for a few months.
There seems to me to be two different but interrelated energetic focuses in the DP group
* one [...]
About a week ago I posted about the choice landscape we have for these events. No one seemed to have an opinion so we went with both and are having one event leaning more towards ‘the technical’ and another leaning more towards vendors with products and potential buyers.
The Data Sharing Workshop, April 18 – [...]
The Internet Identity Workshop is coming up May 12-4 … this will be 6th event. Phil has an announcement up – where you can find the gif to post on your blog
If you want to sponsor please contact Phil.
If you would like to help with the design – figuring out what [...]
Finally someone is not just hyping about portability without also considering the flip side.
(3) Privacy is just as important as openness. Where does my data end and yours begin? If you believe that users of Web 2.0 services have some inherent “right” to control their own data but that this data is in inexorably [...]
Two weeks ago when I was in NYC we had an identity gathering. It was one of those ‘open space’ kind of days – who ever comes are the right people turns out it was 4 of us Me, Ryan, Tony and Ken Jordan. The person who instigated the meeting Ryan Jenssen because he [...]
From Slashdot:
According to MSNBC, thousands of U.S. citizens have wrongfully been declared dead, due to an average of 35 data input errors per day by the Social Security Administration (SSA). Many other agencies rely on the data provided by the SSA, such as the IRS. People who have been wrongfully declared dead face many problems, [...]