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The Relationship Paper

Bob’s Relationship Paper is now available. If you haven’t read it yet – you should. It articulates a key point about the challenge regarding the current frame of social networks – relationships are just lines on a graph rather then being nodes that hold information about the nature and parameters of the relationship.

London this week

Things are coming together for heading to London – I can’t believe I leave tomorrow. The plan is to get up early tomorrow and then sleep on the plane. I have found accommodations for the whole time. I will be in Oxford from the 2-6 and then in london from the 6-11.
The schedule has got [...]

Getting OpenID to work – when oh when?

Joseph Boyle who came to our identity panel at sxsw and then joined us for lunch has been sharing with me some of his OpenID challenges. These happen all the time – ALL THE TIME. Thing is – he is a tech guy and he still can’t get any of this to work. I asked [...]

Women I admire

Today is Ada Lovelace Day – over at She’s Geeky we blogged about the pledge for today succeeding a few months ago.
Mary Hodder is a good friend and someone I admire a lot for her courage in doing a video startup Dabble as a lone woman founder. She has taught me a lot about technology [...]

Congradulations Pam!

Pam has officially announced launching her new company – Bonsai Identity.
I remember when I first met Pam at the very end of the first DIDW that I went to in the fall of 2004. I really got to know her when we were attending the Burton Group catalyst conference in 2005.
She has been a great [...]

Everything is Amazing and No One is Happy

A friend shared this link with me today. It is a guy on Connan O’Brien.
“The video can’t be embedded apparently so you have to click over to it (I am already “unhappy” about that)” – ok inside joke related to the video.

Newspapers Dying – but we told you so…

Someone sent me this link from SF Gate this morning:

In the wake of the hugely depressing shutdown of the Rocky and the Seattle P.I., and with recent death threats to the SF Chronicle and what looks to be a savage year indeed for print newspapers everywhere, these big guns have all stepped away from their [...]

April – London – Open Scheduling

So, I am going to be traveling to the UK for the Oxford Internet Institute meeting on April 2-3 about legal issues. I am “representing the user” at least this is what my position paper will be on.
I decided it was worth it to spend week longer in London until the 11th and meet people, [...]

SXSW – Hula Hut edition of Social Web TV

Lots has happened here at SXSW – The previous post is what i put up on my blog was what we posted on the screen during the OpenID – Oauth and the Enterprise session. hash tag #sxswid
The next session that afternoon in the same room on Open Spec development was very entertaining and I will [...]

ID Panel at SXSW

TWITTER HASH TAG FOR THIS PANEL
#sxswid
our handles
@identitywoman
@bobblakley
@etelos
@jsmarr
Panel Outline
1) Brief Intro
2) CONTEXT – 15 min
5m – looking back – enterprise IdM 101 – Bob Blakley
5m – SaaS is happening – Danny Kolke
5m – OpenID and Oauth
3) Discussion – 15-20min
4) Questions
LUNCH AFTERWARDS
we are heading over to Austin Iron Works to continue the conversation
http://idsxsw.eventbrite.com/
The next community [...]

Am I to “old” to get Facebook? – or do they not get it?

I am at SXSW this morning. I just came from the session “Is Privacy Dead or Just Very Confused?” about the difference between private and public spheres and how they are contextual and social contract dependent. They talked about how strange facebook was for merging all ones contexts together (this is my own critique [...]

Congratulations Drummond & ICF

Today it was announced that Drummond Reed is the new Interim Executive Director of the Information Card Fouundation. I have known Drummond since I first met him with the other “identity guys” at the Planetwork Conference in 2004. I think it is a great role for Drummond and a great move for [...]

Identity Panel & Lunch at SXSW

I am really excited to be heading to Austin tomorrow for SXSW Interactive. After attending for 2 years in a row I didn’t attend last year and watched as all the tweets went by – wishing I was there.
I am facilitating a panel on Sunday morning 11:30 – it should be a lively [...]

Google Doc’s “Privacy Blunder”

his is from Tech Crunch today …it only affects .05% of documents…
…and as they say it is a
privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services,
At least it didn’t open all documents up to everyone…
According to the notice, this sharing was limited to people “with whom you, or a collaborator [...]

Peeling back the twitter layers

So, I am going to have to unfollow about 1000 people from twitter. This pains me to no end but I gotta do it.
I want to “know” the people I follow and all this week I have not turned on a twitter client cause my existing followers make to much noise. Having said [...]

Internet Identity Workshop May 18-20

We have opened registration for the 8th Internet Identity Workshop! May 18-20th in Mountain View California.
There are a few things that are different this time around….
We have a shinny new website/blog!
Thanks to Mary Ruddy, Stas Zubalevich and Pam Dingle for helping make it happen.
We are using eventbrite to do registration – and [...]

She’s Geeky #4 is happening in Northern Virginia (DC Area)

I am really pleased to announce that She’s Geeky #4 is happening in Northern Virginia (DC Area) Saturday April 18th. Registration is Open.
It is at LMI’s facilities in McLean (they donated the space). There is one drawback – it isn’t on a metro We have a wiki up to [...]

Long Trip & Three Identity Dinners

On Wednesday I got home from a 20 day road trip that included hosting three identity dinners along the way.
In Boston, Doc Searls, Mary Ruddy, Paul Trevithick and I called a dinner on February 8th and about 12 folks came out. It was great to connect and some new people joined us. We [...]