Monday, March 24, 2008 - Posts

• Peer-To-Patent public community patent application prior-art review and Ontology-based translation between directory schemas (20080324)

  Commentary by Mark Wahl , CISA Peer-To-Patent public community patent application prior-art review and Ontology-based translation between directory schemas (20080324) The US Patent and Trademark Office is currently participating in a Peer Reviewed Prior Art Pilot project, in which applicants for patents classified in the Computer Architecture, Software and Information Security Technology Center can volunteer their application to be included as one of the 250 applications in the pilot for community Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 11:40 PM from Mark Wahl, CISA | 1 Comments

• Fame! Well, an interview at Sun Developer Network...

  From the shameless self-promotion dept... Hot on the heels of her interview with Jamie last week , Marina 's latest subject is... me! Sadly, my suggested title of "Sun's Rising Identity Superstar" was rejected in favor of the far less exciting " OpenSSO , a Thriving Community". Oh well... Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 8:00 PM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity, accessmanager, opensso, sdn, aboutme

• On OpenID Progress: Part of a Bigger Challenge of Identity on the Web

  TechCrunch just did a post about OpenID asked if it was being exploited by the large internet players that are participating in the community and adopting it. I recall the first Internet Identity Workshop when the small crowd of ‘light weight’ ‘open’ ‘distributed’ SSO efforts came together and started their conversation about how they shared [...] Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 6:39 PM from Identity Woman | 1 Comments Filed under: Uncategorized

• Big Boys and OpenID

  TechCrunch wrote an article asking if the Big Boys were exploiting OpenID. The crux of the argument was that they are providing OpenIDs, but are not accepting them. In other words, they are an OpenID Provider, but not a Relying Party. John McCrea echos what Michael said, and Jason Kolb and David Recordon also wrote posts [...] Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 5:40 PM from Identity 2.0 | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, Media

• Ohad's Mytopia

  My old buddy Ohad (from CFXWeb days) has sent word of some interesting stuff he's doing with Facebook.... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Some of you know I'm (also) the designer at Real Dice. On Friday we moved from closed alpha to the first public beta. Here is a link to the application on facebook - try if and please be brutally honest about what works and what doesn't. We won't be able to fix things unless we'll know what's not working. :) http://apps.facebook.com/m Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 5:38 PM from Francis Shanahan[.com] | 1 Comments

• Relying on the Big Companies for OpenID?

  Last night Mike Arrington of TechCrunch gave me a call wanting to chat a bit about OpenID adoption when it comes to sites you can login to with your OpenID (aka Relying Parties in identity speak). The crux of his question to me was if the big companies are doing their share to contribute to the OpenID ecosystem or if they're rather taking more than they're giving -- in the form of good publicity -- by not also becoming relying parties. As he pointed out this morning in his post "Is OpenID Being Exploited Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 3:14 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, technology

• Authority through Reticence

  I'm reading The Great Mortality by John Kelly, a history of the Black Death plague and its impact on 14th century Europe. Kelly describes a new code of demeanor and behaviour for medical practioners that emerged in the years before the plague arrived. It was essentially a set of 'Best Practices' for interacting with patients. For instance, the code instructed physicians, when in doubt of diagnosis, to prescribe a drug, any drug "that may do some good but you know can do no harm'. (the drug companies Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 10:58 AM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• openinfocard plugin vs extension

  I have no shame... and must tell that a first step in realizing the openinfocard selector as a Firefox plugin instead of an extension was achieved today. A Firefox plugin is probably the correct way to handle HTML <object type="application/x-informationcard" >...</object> inside Firefox. When I implemented the certificate chain validation I had to build my own Firefox browser from sources because I needed an API that is not in the Gecko SDK but in the Firefox source code. Now I had everything Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 9:39 AM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments Filed under: openinfocard, firefox, Firefox plugin, NSAPI

• Site Specific Browsers & identity?

  Are there implications for today's identity in Site Specific Browsers like Mozilla Prism ? An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and accoutrements of a normal web browser. At the very least, you can't rely on the chrome for alerting the user to phishing etc. I installed Prism, and for each SSB application you create, you specify what UI components (e.g. location, status) will be displayed. Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 9:34 AM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• Geolocation enables Elitism

  A paper Mobile social networks and social practice: A case study of Dodgeball by Lee Humphreys points to how Dodgeball users may broadcast their location in order to boast or show-off. That is just so lame . Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 7:46 AM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• English vs American Infomercials

  On a recent trip to London I was amused by the differences in infomercials between the US and England. If you stay up late enough or get up early enough you'll find the US runs infomercials primarily related to being overweight and ways to combat obesity. Case in point, Tony Little [ LINK ]. And you might say that is in some ways representative of the cultural stereotypes around being American. So what then would be representative of the English culture? What product best represents the plight of Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 2:39 AM from Francis Shanahan[.com] | 1 Comments

• A Great Weekend

  This week I was finally really back home which was really nice, though it also meant that my week was incredibly hectic with lots of people to talk to and things to do. This weekend however, has been quite chill. Friday my series of meetings led me back to Yahoo Brickhouse where I ended up grabbing drinks with the some of the login team as well as MyBlogLog. Was a great way to end a day of bouncing between meetings before heading over to FooBar at Six Apart. After FooBar a group of us went over to Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 12:28 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: friends, san francisco