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IIW Date Shift – May 17-19
It turns out Google I/O is the week of IIW. We found out to late to shift weeks but early enough to shift days to only conflict 1 day (the 19th). Please mark your calendars accordingly.
Early Bird Registraiton is in effect for another Month. Sponsorships and “big tickets” (for those who can expense a [...]
RSA Dinner for the Identity Community
There are a few events on the yearly calendar where a corum of identity folks come together – RSA is one of them.
We are organizing an informal community Dinner on Tuesday evening at 7pm.
Everyone is WELCOME! just RSVP here on eventbrite. It will be no-host but not that expensive. We are looking at Indian places [...]
ID-Legal – Mapping the Gap – Bridging Commumities
Next month we are hosting a gathering called Map the Gaps. It came out of a session I ran several IIW’s ago asking the question what if there was a “Legal-IIW” the intent was always to cross communities and connect activities already in this area. The intent from the beginning was to connect with and [...]
Chris Messina at Google – Good for him, Google & The Identity/Social Web Community.
I was one of the first people to congratulate Chris Messina on his blog when he announced he was going to Google. It was a personal congratulations. I wasn’t sure if it was good overall for the open web vision or the community as a whole. In the end after thinking about it for a [...]
The Age of Privacy is Over????
ReadWriteWeb has coverage of Zuckerberg’s talk with Arrington at the Crunchies. According to him, the age of Privacy is Over. This is the quote that is just STUNNING:
..we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it.
When I first heard it in the interview in the video I did [...]
IIW is NOT an advocacy group – sigh “the media”
Facebook’s Online Identity War quotes me and labels IIW an advocacy group. IT IS AN INDUSTRY FORUM. Douglas MacMillan.
Sorry but I am still learning “how” to talk to reporters. They don’t like to quote me as “the identity woman” and link to my blog.
I “do” run the Identity Workshop with Phil and Doc but that [...]
Demand for Web 2.0 suicides increasing
I went to the suidicemachine and got this message
We apologize to all our users for the breakdown of our service! Within the last hours the huge demand for 2.0 suicides completely overblew our bandwidth resources!
We are currently considering relocating to another serverfarm. Please consider suicide at a later moment and accept our apologies!
You [...]
Facebook Privacy Changes leave us “Socially Nude”
Read Write Web published a guest post by me about how the changes at facebook last week leave us Socially Nude.
Facebook’s Privacy Move Violates Contract With Users
Your name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks, Friends List, and all the pages you subscribe to are now publicly available information on Facebook. This means everyone [...]
She’s Geeky – January 29-31
She’s Geeky: Connecting Women in Tech
Returning to the Bay Area January 29, 30 & 31, 2010
@ the Computer History Museum in Mountain View
She’s Geeky is just 7 weeks away! Early Bird Tickets are available for just 2 more weeks until December 20th.
http://shesgeekybayarea3.eventbrite.com/
www.shesgeeky.com
This event is for:
Women Working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic Fields.
Women into [...]
IIW9 Highlights – IIW10 Reg Open
I am really pleased to share that the notes for IIW9 are available in PDF form now. All sessions also have a wiki page too.
Heidi Nobantu Saul did an amazing job collecting notes and we managed to get all session notes except a very few on the last day.
Highlights include:
The session on Active [...]
What are identifiers in the digital context?
Jean Russell and I continued our conversation on What are Identifiers this time focusing on the digital context.
We cover what user-names are, how they are not portable, what it means to have a portable identifier – and talk about the open standard that enables portability – OpenID.
It is up on the Reputation Currents Blog.
What are Identifiers?
Jean Russel and I just posted the first of many conversations we area planning to explore, Identity, Reputation, and Currencies.
What is an Identifier? is up on Reputation Currents blog.
Fire Fox and Identity in the Browser
ReadWriteWeb reports this week:
Decrying redirects and iframes, Raskin tells of a brave new world where an in-browser button that defies navigational difficulties allows for something closer to true identity portability than we’ve seen yet:
Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web. Nearly every site has [...]
Internet Identity Workshop Details + Regular Registration Ends Wednesday
This is cross posted on the IIW Blog
Regular Registration ENDS NEXT WEDNESDAY – October 28th at Midnight. Prices go up $100 after that.
The Internet Identity Workshop #9 Tuesday – Thursday, November 3-5 in Mountain View, CA Computer History Museum
Please blog/tweet about the conference. The hash tag is #iiw , our twitter handle is @idworkshop
Proposed Topics [...]
Identity Dispute on Twitter
From Slashdot
SpuriousLogic spotted this story on the BBC, from which he excerpts:
“The High Court has given permission for an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter. The order is to be served against an unknown Twitter user who anonymously posts to the site using the same name as a right-wing political blogger. The order [...]
ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit Announced
The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit announcement is live. I am working on this with them as the facilitator. The event is modeled on the format we use at the Internet Identity Workshop to get a lot done and have real discussions about emerging topics in industry.
ReadWriteWeb has offered high quality coverage of this area for [...]
FastCo Post on Governemnt Experiments with Identity Technologies
This is cross posted on Fast Company.
The Obama administration open government memorandum called for transparency participation, collaboration and federal agencies have begun to embrace Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, surveys, social networks, and video casts. Today there are over 500 government Web sites and about 1/3 of them require a user name and password. Users [...]
Open Identity for Open Government Explained
Today the United States Government with digital identity industry leaders announced the development of a pilot project with NIH and related agencies using two of the open identity technology standards OpenID and Information Cards.
This is, as a friend said to me, a “jump the shark moment” – these technologies are moving out from their technologists [...]
Celebrating with OIDF & ICF
This evening I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the joint OpenID and Information Card Foundation dinner. It was fun to connect with everyone and it really meant a lot to me to be there. It has been a long journey as a community since the first Internet Identity Workshop in Oct [...]
Thomas Friedman on the lesson from Van Jones – “Watch out for the participatory panopticon”
Thomas Friedman of the NYTimes on Meet the Press today talking about several recent incidents including what happened to Van Jones.
When everyone has a cell phone, everyone is a photographer, when everyone has access to YouTube, everyone is a filmmaker, and when everyone is a blogger everyone is a newspaper.
When everyone is a photographer, a [...]
IIW IX is open for business
Internet Identity Workshop number 9 is coming up in about 10 weeks. November 3-5 (Tuesday to Thursday) in Mountain View California at the Computer History Museum.
We are excited about all the developments in the industry with protocol evolution in the social web space AND larger and larger scale deployments of open identity technologies including OpenID [...]
Identity for Online Community Managers
I was asked by Bill Johnson of Forum One Networks to kick off the discussion on the next Online Community Research Network call this week with the topic Identity for Online Community Managers – drawing on the presentation that I put together for the Community 2.0 Summit. I cover the basics of how OpenID, OAuth [...]
Freedom to Aggregate & Disaggregate oneself online.
I presented this slide show at the Oxford Internet Institute meeting in April that considered A Global Framework for Identity Management.
You could sum it up this way – “stuff happens in peoples lives and the need the freedom to go online and get support for those things and not have it all linked back to [...]
its that SXSW picking time of year
This year there are 2200 panels submitted for 300 slots. It is great they are going with community generated ideas for the conference. It is also hard to tell what will be happening in our fast moving industry 7 months from now. PLEASE go to SXSW create an account and then vote for these two [...]
ID biz models “in the future maybe” says Johannes
Johanne Ernst is a builder of Identity technologies (and one of the clearest thoughtful thinkers about identity technologies and markets. He just posted a great post about business models in the identity space. I know he has at various times tried raise money as an entrepruner in this space – so he has thought a [...]
Identity & Gov and & Open Standards
I am really happy to let you all know about this forth coming OASIS ID-Trust Identity Management 2009 event September 29-30.
The theme of the event will be “Transparent Government: Risk, Rewards, and Repercussions.”
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be hosting it in Gainthersburg, Maryland.
In the why attend the reference part of [...]
Web Finger! moving out into world
I love the Internet Identity Workshop! it is where innovative ideas are hatched, answers to hard problems are vetted and standards consensus emerges. This is just the latest in amazing collaborations that have emerged.
Web Finger was covered on Tech Crunch today with this headline – Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be [...]
DiSo ideas are not that new.
Reading these:
A Perfect Storm Forming for Distributed Social Networking- Read Write Web
Evolution of Blogging – GigaOm
The Push Button Web – Anil Dash
The inside Out Social Network – Chris Messina
The Future Social Web – Jeremiah Owyang
I realize how incredibly ahead of the times I was along with many of the people I have been working with [...]
Digital Identity -> Sculpture
My friend Cameron Hunt sent me a link to this AMAZING site this morning.
IDENTITÄT: the »Gestalt « of digital identity
From the far end of the Concept page:
The goal of the project was not to create a readable data sculpture of someone’s digital life, but to express how an analogue snapshot of complex digital identities can [...]
Great Identity News
Yesterday the Government hosted a workshop in DC: Open Government Identity Management Solutions Privacy Workshop.
The OpenID Foundation and the Information Card Foundation are working with the U.S. General Services Administration to create open trust frameworks for their respective communities.
Drummond Reed and Don Tibeau announced their paper Open Trust Frameworks for Open Government.
Quiet and intense work [...]
At the Ideas Project apparently women don’t have any ideas.
As some of you may or may not know, I founded a women’s-only technology conference, She’s Geeky. There has been a bunch of conversation in this past week about the lack of women speakers at tech events (in fields like web 2.0, social media, government where there is significant female participation).
It got started with this [...]
Missing: Privileged Account Management for the Social Web.
This year at SXSW I moderated a panel about OpenID, OAuth and data portability in the Enterprise. We had a community lunch after the panel, and walking back to the convention center, I had an insight about a key missing piece of software – Privileged Account Management (PAM) for the Social Web – how are [...]
“anonymous” sperm donation…not so anonymous any more
I found this via retweets from Tim O’Reilly on Bio-Medicine.
The boy tracked down his father from his Y chromosome, which is passed from father to son unchanged. The gene variant patterns it carries can help trace the concerned paternal line, according to a report in New Scientist. All that it cost the boy to trace [...]
Legal Haze for Social networks. Identity and Freedom of Expression.
The picture pretty much sums the conundrum up.
Is it ok for individuals to promote pot on these social networking services?
Should social networks allow marijuana dispensaries to have organizational presences?
(from an e-mail from Fast Company promoting this article)
The question is, whose laws do social networks have to follow? The Web may seem borderless, but as companies [...]
SSN’s can be guessed
This just in from slashdot:
“The nation’s Social Security numbering scheme has left millions of citizens vulnerable to privacy breaches, according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who for the first time have used statistical techniques to predict Social Security numbers solely from an individual’s date and location of birth. The researchers used the information they [...]
OpenID goes mainstream – Sears and KMart are now relying parties
This is really exciting news for the identity community since getting mainstream adoption of OpenID has been a challenge for the community. They worked with JanRain on implementing the project. Here is the RWW story.
I just went to the KMart site to “join”, and at first I thought it wasn’t there. Turns out the option [...]
Facebook Changing Privacy Settings
This past month has been interesting for Facebook – they hired Timothy Sparapani as their lobbyist in Washington:
As a prominent privacy advocate, Timothy Sparapani, former senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, argued that Internet companies have too much control over consumers’ data. The self-described “privacy zealot” didn’t join Facebook until seven months [...]
India says it will be creating National ID for Citizens
I found this last night on Slashdot – it was to important not to blog about. “India to Put All Citizen Info into Central Database“
Reading the article in The Independent this stood out for me
The creation of the ID or Unique Identification Number (UID) was a major plank of the manifesto of the ruling Congress [...]
IIW & Identity Community Bumps in the Road
This is cross posted on the IIW blog .
When we first started meeting (the early “seedling” meetings of community) at other people’s conferences, there were Microsoft people, Liberty Alliance/SAML people, Shibboleth implementers, user-centric folks (OpenID, LID, sxip, i-names/xri), big idea folks (Doc Searls), etc. We met for a couple of hours at a time and [...]
Cultivating Community
Communities don’t usually “just happen” there is idea, or vision that attracts people, and there are community organizer(s) or catalysts that proactively seek out others who share a vision and help bring a community together.
Growing community, cultivating community, nurturing community, weaving community, building community, creating community – all slightly different metaphors describing this process that [...]