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ID techs and events all orbiting Berkman's Higgins Project

Harvard Berkman Center senior fellow John Clippinger tipped me off to the Federal CTO Summit that's taking place at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC from April 5-7. Clippinger is one of the speakers at tomorrow's event and will be contributiing to the discussion on streamlining information sharing and assurance...

Tags: Blogging, Berkman Center, John Clippinger, Microsoft InfoCard, Higgins Project, open source, blog

Blog posts 2006-04-04

Higgins and Vendor Sports

A few days ago IBM, Novell, and Harvard's Berkman Center announced the Higgins Project. Higgins is a "user-centric identity" system that will be open source and managed by the Eclipse Foundation. When we held the Internet Identity Workshop last October, Paul Trevithick spoke about Higgins (listen...

Tags: Higgins, Higgins Project

Blog posts 2006-03-03

Additional Resources

Azigo 2.0.0.36 (Windows)

Azigo helps simplify your online life, through the industry-standard technology of Information Cards. Azigo provides one-click login and registration for web sites that accept Information Cards. The RemindMe feature helps you save money when you shop online by reminding you of discounts and deals that you have already earned through...

Tags: Azigo, Web Site Development, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology, Internet, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-05

Azigo 2.0.0.22 (Mac)

Azigo helps simplify your online life, through the industry-standard technology of Information Cards. Azigo provides one-click login and registration for web sites that accept Information Cards. The RemindMe feature helps you save money when you shop online by reminding you of discounts and deals that you have already earned through...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Parity Communications, Azigo 2.0.0.22, Web Site Development, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Internet, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-03-06

House of Hackers social community opens up

PDP, the leader of the Gnucitizen White Hat Hacker outfit announced the opening of the House of Hackers social community yesterday.  The House of Hackers is intended to enable its members to exchange ideas with each other, communicate, form groups, elite circles and tiger/red teams, conglomerate around projects, and participate in...

Tags: Community, Network, Member, Hacker, Gnucitizen White Hat Hacker, House, Hacking, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-06

RIA Weekly number 7: Ajax with Jazz and creating native interfaces for rich Internet applications

I try not to post every one of the RIA Weekly because I figure most people who want to listen will have subscribed to to the feed but this episode was one of my favorites so I wanted to mention it. We sat down with Bill Higgins from the Jazz...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-02-18

A two-track mind: sharing data, now and later

This is Ben Werdmuller's second report from the Data Sharing Summit in Richmond, CA, which aimed to address the issue of interoperability between social networks. Part one can be found here. Ben is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social networking framework....

Tags: Social Networking, Network, Service Provider, Data Sharing, Ben, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-09-11

An InfoCard selector for OS X and Linux

Dale Olds reports on his blog that Novell presented an Open Source Identity Selector OSIS on OS X and Linux that supports the same InfoCards as Windows CardSpace today at Brainshare. Pat Felsted has a screenshot of the OSIS. Dale describes a demo done by Baber...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, selector, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Open Source Identity Selector

Blog posts 2007-03-23

Should Microsoft be required to cooperate with open source?

Should Microsoft be required to cooperate with open source?IdM is not a business[i]OF COURSE M$ isn't going to want some opensource project take their buisness.[/i]Identity Management is not a business; it's infrastructure that facilitates business.The behaviors you are describing, are illegal for a monopoly.And, given that MS is dragging their...

Tags: Government, Intellectual property, Quality, IdM, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2007-03-12

Should Microsoft be required to cooperate with open source?

Heres a nice controversy to get your week started.While Microsoft slipped through its antitrust case in the U.S., the E.U.does consider it a monopolist, and thus subject to some form of regulation. Should that regulation include a requirement for full interoperability with key open source projects, like Higgins?Higgins is the...

Tags: Applications, General, Government, identity, Implementations, Infrastructure, Legal, management, mass market, Microsoft, Patents

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessing

Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessingPerhaps it's becuase microsoft wants to maintain lockinThat's the real problem.The Higgins Project people are asking for interface specifications, communications protocols, not information on how Microsoft implemented their version of the technology.Wait and see...MS is waiting as usual to make sure they can establish market...

Tags: Leadership, open source, Microsoft Corp., Open-Source ID Project

Discussion threads 2007-03-10

Can open source lead to better identity?

Folks have been working toward better online identity for over a decade. It was assumed there was a lot of money in it. (Swayspace, where this image lives, works on developing corporate identities, which is a profitable business.)Well, there is a lot of money to be saved in better identity....

Tags: Applications, Development, business models, General, identity

Blog posts 2007-01-26

IBM contributes ID software to open source security project

IBM is unveiling its latest approach to tackling the identity theft scourge with software that allows users to control personal information by sharing only a pseudonym with third parties. The company is also contributing the software, dubbed Identity Mixer, to the...

Tags: General, Open Source, IT Management, Security, Microsoft, IBM, Identity Mixer

Blog posts 2007-01-26

Windows CardSpace gets Firefox support

Windows CardSpace gets Firefox supportIE browser is about deadWith just one feature, RSS, there is a compelling reason to upgrade the internet browser on corporate and government computers. I did so last week on my wife's computer. As had been reported to me by half a dozen others, it doesn't...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows CardSpace, RSS

Discussion threads 2006-12-13

Internet Identity Workshop and interop

Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I will be doing another installment of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2006b) in December. Were back at Computer History Museum, Dec 4-6. The Interenet Identity Workshop is about moving user-centric identity ideas and technologies forward. User-centric identity starts with the...

Tags: General, IT Management, Security, Web Technology, Internet Identity Workshop, IIW 2005, identity

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Build a low-power x86 appliance for under $200!

The generic x86 PC has become so ubiquitous and inexpensive that it has now become the platform of choice for special purpose appliances. The list of possible applications are endless but a few of the most common ones include:File server AKA Network Attached Storage Firewall/Router/VPN/Wireless appliance Media recorder and...

Tags: LANs, Desktops, Intel x86, card

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Passion, common vision drove Higgins to success. Not big vendor agendas.

There's something special about witnessing innovation as it happens right in front of you. To a large extent, that's what this week's Identity Mashup Conference at Harvard University was about. Sure, there were a lot of interesting panel discussions that dove deep into all sorts of thought-provoking issues...

Tags: Higgins

Blog posts 2006-06-22

OSIS links Internet identity systems

David Berlind's not the only member of the Between the Lines team at the ID Mashup this week. I've been here as well, watching the identity happenings. The first two days were traditional conference style, but the third day of the workshop was done open...

Tags: OSIS

Blog posts 2006-06-21

Higgins Trust Framework makes its debut at Harvard ID conference

Earlier today, here at the Identity Mashup Conference being put on by the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, I moderated a panel discussion where the panelists contemplated what happens once software developers start to mashup disaggregated chunks of identity data into browser-based applications that we probably...

Tags: Higgins Trust Framework, Interra Project, mashup

Blog posts 2006-06-20

The many players at IIW

The Internet Identity Workshop also talked about here has been going on for the past few days. The workshop is centered on "user-centric identity," which is confusing enough to be sure, but when you throw in the various protocols, systems and groups working in it -- well, things get downright...

Tags: OpenID, Identity Metasystem, Lid, identity

Blog posts 2006-05-03