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- Debating the state of user-centric identity
- Every now and then a technical disagreement betrays the state of a marketplace. That phenomenon is currently happening in the user-centric identity trenches.The players are Kim Cameron (InfoCards/CardSpace) of Microsoft on one side and Dick Hardt OpenID of Sxip Identity on the other. The issue: Kims recent allegations that...
- Tags: General, centric identity, identity
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Craig Burton cries 'ubiquity'
- At Novell, Craig Burton was one of the driving forces behind the modern notion of a network as a collection of services rather than a collection of wires. He's a master at seeing the big picture and identifying the limitations of particular strategies within that picture. I've known...
- Tags: Craig, Identity 2.0
- Blog posts 2005-10-07
- Something in the Air
- Sometime when we weren't looking in the past few days, we flipped on the new bit. Not sure how to quantify it, but there's something in the air (Thunderclap Newman for you kids out there just tuning in.) The evidence is overwhelming if subtle: Dave Winer and Jason Calacanis podcasting...
- Tags: Kim Cameron, Bill Gates, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2005-05-13
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- Microsoft privacy guru's site hacked
- IdentityBlog.com, a Web site run by Microsoft's chief architect of identity and access, has been hacked and defaced. The site, which is used by Microsoft's Kim Cameron to promote discussion around privacy, access and security issues, now contains an "owned by me" message and a link to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Site, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- An InfoCard selector for OS X
- The Bandit Project sponsored by Novell has released DigitalMe for the Mac. DigitalMe is the Novell brand for their Infocard selectors that are compatible with Microsoft's CardSpace. I installed the OS X DigitalMe selector and the Firefox plugin (the browser is an intermediary in process of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Apple Mac OS X, DigitalMe, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- If 'you' build OpenID, will 'they' come?
- In case you missed it last week, Microsoft is taking another swing at the idea of single sign-on technologies. Its first, Passport, failed miserably. Called Windows Live ID (following in the footsteps of everything else "Windows Live"), I guess you could call this "Son of Passport" or "Passport: The Sequel."...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Single Sign-on, Identity, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Gillmor's Internet plate tectonics
- Steve Gillmor riffs on my post about Yahoo's lack of a social networking hub, where I state: "Yahoo is about making connections, but right now its more of loose federation of Web applications and servicesâ€"many spokes without a strong hub to hold together a social Web. Yahoo 360 has been...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, SaaS, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, MySpace, Microsoft, iPhone, IBM, Google, Facebook, Apple, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- UK politicians call for limits on student fingerprinting
- UK politicians call for limits on student fingerprintingLeading UK biometrics developer refutes allegations on fingerprintingA leading UK provider of biometric technology has accused Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Secretary Sarah Teather MP of spreading "alarmist claptrap". The accusation follows her remarks to a UK Sunday newspaper on the recent...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, accusation, UK Biometrics, Snapdragons Nursery, Sarah Teather, biometrics, fingerprint
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- 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
- Global warming of the identity ocean
- The big news out of the RSA conference is the announcement of a "marriage" of OpenID and CardSpace. For those that arent up on the inner workings of user-centric identity: CardSpace is Microsofts instantiation of the InfoCards Meta-system that Kim Cameron proposed several years ago; OpenID is a URL-centric identity...
- Tags: General, OpenID, Microsoft Windows CardSpace
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- RSA 2007: Microsoft marries CardSpace and OpenID 2.0
- With the Vista launch behind him, Bill Gates and Craig Mundie, Microsofts chief research and strategy officer and security patron, were on stage the 16th annual RSA Conference in San Francisco before a crowd of about 15,000 security geeks and professionals. They were preceded by a Broadway-style dance number with...
- Tags: General, Security, Microsoft, OpenID, Craig Mundie
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- OpenID: gone phishing
- [Ed. The OpenID protocol is rapidly gaining momentum in the social networking arena. Exemplifying the momentum OpenID is gaining, Symantec recently announced that it would support OpenID in its Security 2.0 identity offering. As it is gaining visibility the OpenID protocol is being scrutinized more closely by those looking for...
- Tags: General, OpenID
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Podcast Potpourri
- If youre interested in some terrific audio examinations of several of the topics irregularly covered here, be sure to check out these current offerings:on attention, the "Who Owns You" panel from Supernova 2006, at IT Conversationson digital identity, the PodLeaders interview with Kim Cameron (if digital identity is your thing,...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Copyright, Identity, Licenses, Podcasting, Syndication, Attention, digital identity
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Identity predictions for 2007
- Having graded our identity predictions from last year, its time to venture forth into the uncharted waters of 2007. The following are our divinations on what is to come:1. Identity-related acquisitions will slow to a steady pace.The acquisition market for identity companies has been very heated for the past two...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Mergers & Acquisitions, identity, identity management, NAC, acquisition
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Internet Identity Workshop demonstrations steal the show
- One of the hallmarks of the Internet Identity Workshop IIW is the high ratio of getting-stuff-done to idle chat and marketing drivel. I remarked at the closing session that this wasnt a workshop in the usual sense of "conference not quite grown up." This really is a...
- Tags: Sxipper, Internet Identity Workshop, Internet Identity, Web Technology, Security, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- IBM's Sutor, Sun's Phipps give lukewarm reception to Microsoft patent covenants
- In yesterday's post regarding Microsoft's remarkable step in the right direction (with regards to its issuance of some patent non-assertion covenants), I mentioned that silence on behalf of the normally quick-to-respond-to-such-news Bob Sutor (IBM's open source and standards veep) and Simon Phipps (Sun's chief open source officer) might have been...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Simon Phipps
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Delivering on the identity promise
- This evening, at the reception for Digital ID World, someone asked me what I thought of the conference. I've been to every DIDW since it started (5 years now). I realized that the conversations and talks had changed from "won't it be cool when we..." to "this is what we...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., specification, identity
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- 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...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Passport
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- Identity on the mind
- Last week the Burton Group Catalyst conference focused on an identity management, from enterprise single sign-on to user-centric identity. This week the "identorati" are gathered together for the Identity Mashup Conference hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Mark Dixon has a good summary...
- Tags: Identity, Identity Mashup, mashup
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- Top 5 Identity Fallacies: #3 Centralized Management Means Centralized Data
- Like the second identity fallacy the identity data centralization fallacy recurs frequently because it seems so logical. It has kept identity management the province of very large companies for many years. Thankfully this is finally changing, albeit somewhat slowly.A significant goal for many identity management initiatives is to gain centralized...
- Tags: identity data
- Blog posts 2006-06-05
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