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- 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
- 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
- The prompt of doom (or is that despair?)
- Having recently switched computers because of a hard drive failure, I can completely relate to Tim Bray's angst over what I'll call the prompt of despair he calls it the prompt of doom: the one where your browser asks you if you want it to remember the password your putting...
- Tags: Higgins, password
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
- 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
- Image Gallery: Higgins Trust Framework Walkthrough
- Image Gallery: Higgins Trust Framework WalkthroughHiggins in action: awesome stuffThanks for this David: it really brings Higgins to life. In the screen shots - specifically image 12 - where you discuss the use of SSE to synchronise data on the basis that is a Higgins compliant site detected by the...
- Tags: Higgins
- Discussion threads 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 many players at IIWWHY are there so many different ones?The usual? Vendors trying to control/own the spec?We need an "ethernet" implementation.Higgins is not another identity systemHiggins is an extensible framework its some code not a new protocol. It's extended by "plug-ins" that adapt it to particular identity systems and...
- Tags: Higgins, IIW, identity system
- Discussion threads 2006-05-03
- 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
- What's behind open-source ID push?
- What's behind open-source ID push?What's behind it? Well, that's easyfor starters, IBM has to look like it's doing something to keep up with what Microsoft is doing, while choosing an aproach that has no contractual agreements open source they have to deal with.Once they are up to speed, they can...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Tech Writer, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., ID-management effort, Novell Inc., PayPal, open source, Higgins
- Discussion threads 2006-03-03
- Who do you trust more than Microsoft?
- Microsoft's project Hailstorm promised single sign-on and selective sharing of personal information stored at a central location. However it withered on the vine because a) central information stores are juicy targets for thieves, and b) nobody quite trusted Microsoft to keep their deepest secrets safe from prying eyes. Today...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
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- Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science class
- Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science classGuilty of Heresy!The society has behaved just like the Orthodox church behaved, whenever someone put forward ideas that were not in line with its doctrines. It is a shameful act by the society, and just underscores that religious intolerance exists everywhere -...
- Tags: Reiss, creationism, Royal Society, science class, Creationism, Royal Society educator
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science class
- Prof. Michael Reiss has been forced to resign his position as education director of the Royal Society, after making controversial remarks that creationism should be taught in science classes, the Times of London reports. The Society originally stood by Reiss but eventually came to feel his...
- Tags: Education, Professor, Director, Society Educator, Michael Reiss, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet
- Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests
- Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading, reported on research conducted by Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, who has been performing social engineering exploits for numerous clients in the past year and has apparently stolen thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. ...
- Tags: Social Engineering, Identity, Dark Reading Article, Identity Theft, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- 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
- Make your own Wi-Fi access point, for free
- Looking for something to do this weekend? If you've got an old wireless router that you have outgrown, why not turn it into an access point and use it to wipe out dead zones throughout your home? I just ran across a handy...
- Tags: Wi-Fi Access Point, Wi-Fi, Access Point, Wireless, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- 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
- 802.11n Draft 2.0 gear still a neighbor killer
- 802.11n Draft 2.0 gear still a neighbor killerThat may be true for D-Link firmware updates but . . .they probably weren't tested by the Wi-Fi alliance because the alliance just started testing yesterday for chipsets. I wonder if meeting Draft 2.0 specifications means extra hardware inside the box.However thanks...
- Tags: Home networking, Wi-Fi, Network technology, Draft 2.0, hardware, IEEE 802.11n, D-Link Systems, router
- Discussion threads 2007-06-26
- 802.11n Draft 2.0 gear still a neighbor killer
- As we get to the final draft stages of the 802.11n standard, it was thought that the neighbor interference issues have been put to rest by the Draft 2.0. The new standard supposedly has a strict ban on dual-channel operation whenever any legacy devices are operating. The product is suppose to back off from...
- Tags: Technology policy, News, Networking, Mobile/Wireless, Intel, Hardware, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- LinkedIn just now embracing APIs? Thank the competition, not 'open' thinking
- Over the weekend, a fairly significant meme surfaced in the blogosphere regarding Linked.com's decision to offer developers programatic access to its services through application programming interfaces. Iin his blog entry LinkedIn to open up to developers, my colleague Dan Farber wrote:I talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on...
- Tags: Web technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
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