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- The identity silo paradox
- My recent post on Google's identity silo was part of a hailstorm pun intended of comments that occurred on the email list over at the Identity Gang. All of those fast-flying emails unveiled what I'm now calling the "identity silo paradox." Put simply the identity silo paradox is this:...
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Pushing back on Google's identity silo
- Ben Laurie, an employee of Google who is quite clear about the fact that he does not represent Google itself, is responding to my earlier post contrasting Google and Microsoft. Ben's pushing back on my contrasting of Google's Account Authentication versus Microsoft's Live ID, and my treatment therein. Specifically: ...
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
Additional Resources
- Developers and Identity Services - Bridging Usability and Transparency With Role Provider Service
- Service-Oriented Security SOS aligns with the overall Application-Centric approach of the entire Oracle Fusion Middleware platform - with the goal of providing a comprehensive, standards-based, developer-friendly platform. By leveraging and sharing many of the common Identity Services, SOS allows developers to spend the effort on where it counts the most...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Defragging identity, disclosures and vendor relationship management
- In the afternoon session at the Defrag conference, some old friends took the stage to defrag some things. Dick Hardt is well known for his Identity 2.0 presentation on the state of digital identity. He is the CEO and founder of Sxip Identity, which focuses on Internet-scale identity and...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Does authorization equal entitlements?
- Does authorization equal entitlements?A few points...First off, I'm glad to see you enlightened individuals come around. I've been in this specific space for close to 5 years, I've been trying to spread the light, but to little avail - good to see it getting some real traction.I used to claim...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-11-16
- Liveblogging AttentionTrust and GestureBank Announcements
- Continued coverage of the AttentionTrust luncheon follows:Comments from Seth Goldstein: Seth discusses attention attributes that have quantified value, email addresses, etc. On the Internet, our gestures (what we do, what we dont do) form this mass of data. And increasingly, that attention data comes to represent who...
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- American Red Cross CIO: Steve Cooper
- Dan Farber:Now, it’s the year 2006 I can remember in the past five years when we used to talk about cost cutting and consolidation, and now all of a sudden we’re talking about innovation again. Now, you’ve been at Corning Inc, you were in the Dept. of Homeland security as...
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- American Red Cross CIO: Steve Cooper
- Dan Farber: Now, it’s the year 2006 I can remember in the past five years when we used to talk about cost cutting and consolidation, and now all of a sudden we’re talking about innovation again. Now, you’ve been at Corning Inc, you were in the Dept. of Homeland...
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Responding to Dana's views on federated identity
- Blog note: This is a guest column that comes to us from Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity corporation.I read with frustration a recent article posted by Dana Blankenhorn titled “Too late for federated identity�. Perhaps my reaction was mostly to the title, which assumed to make broad stroke assessments...
- Blog posts 2006-09-01
- Pouring cold water on SOA 'reuse' mantra
- Pouring cold water on SOA 'reuse' mantraOnce more for the hard of hearingReuse has 2 major problems that have NEVER been solved or even addressed they are:1. How do I find what I need?2. If I can't find it, is it because it doesn't exist or my searching is inadequate?Having...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-30
- The identity silo paradox
- The identity silo paradoxIdentity Silos and OpenIDsThe question of having a single, unique identity on the WWW has been around the web for quite a while. While many of us users know the problems of managing multiple identities on the web, it is equally true that the identity silos that...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-27
- Google's authentication vs. Microsoft's Live ID
- Recent announcements of Google's authentication service have prompted comparisons to Passport, and even gotten to Dick Hardt (of "Identity 2.0" fame) to call it the, "deepening of the identity silo." I'd like to contrast Google's work with Microsoft's recent work around Live ID. Microsoft's Live ID *is* the old...
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- Top 5 Identity Fallacies: #4 Identity is Monolithic
- Those who have been reading these identity fallacies will find a theme emerging from them. That theme is what I refer to as "The Einstein Fallacy." I derive that moniker from the apocryphal comment attributed to Einstein that "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." The...
- Blog posts 2006-06-12
- The return of the walled garden
- Yesterday, I wrote about how Microsoft's OneCare and Check Point's Zone Alarm ID Lock were band-aids on the identity problem. Today, we see more announcements as AOL and McAffee enter the fray. The truly interesting thing though is a quote in the AOL piece from a Gartner analyst. Therein...
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- PC Forum: Shifting the balance of data power
- Users gaining control of their data and online identities was the theme of the morning panel at PC Forum. It's in part a struggle for power, or a shift in the balance of power between institutions, like credit bureaus and commerce site, and individual users. An age old power stuggle...
- Blog posts 2006-03-13
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Who do you trust?
- RSS got another big boost today when portals-in-the-headlights AOL and Yahoo? decided they wanted to scrape some vig off of the email stream. Notice that this idea, first championed by Bill Gates several years ago in his famous "I will fix this problem in 2 years" speech, is in fact...
- Blog posts 2006-02-04
- GestureBank
- A few nights ago a few of us were gathered together by Yahoo to preview some new RSS tools. As is customary at these events, the Yahoo executives chatted us up. Scott Gatz, the company's lead RSS guru, refused to tell me what the announcement was about until I pointed...
- Blog posts 2005-12-02
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