Johannes Ernst on December 21st, 2006

James McGovern posted a number of questions and thoughts on Federated Identity and Authorization (the most recent installment is here), and challenged a bunch of us to respond. Well, here are some answers from my point of view: Hopefully, Johannes and Kim can tell me if Cardspace as a user interface and open ID as [...]

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Johannes Ernst on December 11th, 2006

We all know that the US healthcare system — just like the healthcare systems of many other countries — has become unsustainable. We also know from experience that changes in the healthcare industry come slowly; probably quite a bit more slowly than the double-digit growth rate of health expenses that is reaching 20% of GDP. [...]

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Johannes Ernst on December 8th, 2006

Since Adam Bosworth ran around with a business card that said "health" at PC Forum, I’ve been wondering what he’s been up to at Google. Today, finally a somewhat clarifying post: Google will do something about healthcare, but it’s not clear yet what exactly. My gut reaction is two-fold: Good: I trust Google a lot [...]

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Johannes Ernst on December 7th, 2006

Update:: Just found this picture on Flickr of when the diagram below was created. Doc Searls (Cluetrain editor, Linux Journal senior editor, Harvard Fellow, revolutionary in a Firefox shirt, and all-around nice guy) is embarking on a very ambitious project at Harvard whose impact could be exceedingly far-reaching, called “Vendor Relationship Management” (in a parallel [...]

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Johannes Ernst on December 5th, 2006

Wow, our article "The case for OpenID" got slashdotted this morning.

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