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Brian cracks the identity and web 2.0 problem

I first met Brian Oberkirch at the Syndicate conference in San Francisco in December of 2005. At the time, Im quite sure that he didnt know of my connection to Digital ID World, or identity in general. But, as so often happens in this small world we call "technology", Im...

Tags: General, Brians, Web, Web 2.0, identity

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Will web 2.0 identity make the same mistake?

Two things have caught my eye recently both on Dan Farbers blog:1. Mashery launching: an API management service that offers, among other, things "access control."2. Intels Web 2.0 Business Suite: a suite of content management and distribution mechanisms that offers "single sign on" across the various applications.All of this reminds...

Tags: General, Web 2.0, identity

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Knock, knock -- who's there?

Joris Evers has an article over on CNET about the "security risks" of Web 2.0. These days, whenever I read the words "security risks" I dig a little deeper to see if people actually mean "identity problem." As it turns out, most of the time they do. As I...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-07-28

Identity for the Internet, Windows and Skype - oh my!

Three loosely coupled bits of news floated around yesterday; interesting enough to spark my interest in taking a look at each of them:1. OSIS link Internet identity systems: "OSIS" stands for "Open source identity selector" and is a truly significant development as Phil Windley pointed out. Its server-side work is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live ID, identity, Microsoft Windows CardSpace

Blog posts 2006-06-22

There's a user in there somewhere

This piece by Robert Young (on Om Malik's blog) caught my eye this morning. The blog entry outlines why social networks are the "new media," but it does so by highlighting the importance of digital identities.My interest in this should come as no surprise, especially in light of my recent...

Tags: digital identity, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-05-30

Why Web 2.0 needs Identity

Amidst all of the hullabaloo around Web 2.0, Dion Hinchcliffe is posting a series of pieces about Web 2.0 in the enterprise (what he calls "Enterprise 2.0"). Dion begins by stating that the heartbeat of Web 2.0 is "people, information and software" in that order, and then proceeds to address...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-05-23

Additional Resources

Microsoft shares SaaS architecture insights

As I mentioned yesterday, there are some smart people at Microsoft who really understand what SaaS and on-demand is all about, which is just as well considering how much buzz surrounds the whole concept of service-oriented computing, from SaaS to SOA to Web 2.0. Some of the most actionable insights...

Tags: Service level management, Microsoft, Architecture, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Identity 1.x: Microsoft Live ID and Google Accounts

Many digital identity and Web 2.0 watchers have been tracking Microsoft and Google's recent efforts to achieve leadership in the potentially high-stakes world of Web-based identity. The goal: To provide a single, common user credential that is trusted, secure, and widely supported across the Web and within enterprises....

Tags: Google Inc., Google Accounts, Web

Blog posts 2006-07-06

Google Checkout: monetizing the long tail

How does the newly launched Google Checkout help fend off threats to Google's profitability? When I wrote about those threats last month, I highlighted the opening up of "a new 'long tail' market of advertisers" as "a hugely under-estimated source of profitability" for the search engine and contextual advertising giant....

Tags: Google Inc., Google Checkout

Blog posts 2006-06-29

Harnessing the content flow

The New York Times redesigns its online site the first major one in five years to make the reader experience "simpler and more useful," including links to the most blogged articles, topic pages, personal pages with guidance from NYT editors and more emphasis on multimedia content. All very nice,...

Tags: Value at Risk, aggregation, Wikio

Blog posts 2006-04-03

The Friends-and-Family Era

Dave Winer has done a lot of smart technology development, but I'd look somewhere else for ideas about how to fix venture capital. In a much-talked about posting, Winer says the associates, partners and general partners in venture funds who sweep"Web 2.0" is the Friends-and-Family era...

Tags: Dave

Blog posts 2006-01-30

Has Microsoft lost its 'identity'?

Eric Norlin of Ping Identity writes an open letter to Bill Gates and Microsoft, telling the big company to get its act together around digital identity. Here's a snippet: The launch of Vista Longhorn is widely seen as one of the most important events in the history of Microsoft. Indeed,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-08-10

The red herring of data protection

The numbers lately have been staggering: 145,000; 13.9 million; 40 million. I'm speaking, of course, of the recent rash of "data loss" -- the innocuous term for "millions of accounts containing personal data being exposed to the wrong eyes." Whether it's MasterCard, ChoicePoint, LexisNexis, Bank of America, Wachovia, Stanford or...

Tags: identity, credit card, identity federation

Blog posts 2005-06-21

Ping Identity's pay-as-you-succeed federation server

Start-up Ping Identity has come up with an innovative model for selling its PingFederate 2.0 identity federation server. Instead of pricing by the number of servers, applications, users or connections, the company is using identity transactions as the metric. The deal is this: PingFederate can be installed on an infinite number of...

Tags: PingFederate 2.0 identity federation server, PingFederate 2.0 identity federation

Blog posts 2005-02-10