Johannes Ernst on December 4th, 2006

In her Internet Identity Workshop keynote, Kaliya just referred to my piece “The Digital Identity Landscape of 2006” which I wrote January 11, 2006. She said something to the effect that this represent “the best summary so far that at least part of the community agrees with”. I’m flattered, but a bit embarrassed, because this [...]

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Johannes Ernst on December 4th, 2006

ZDNet’s Digital ID World blog just published an op-ed piece by myself and David Recordon of Verisign. Here is the teaser: The Case for OpenID Many digital identity technologies exist already; why does the world need OpenID? Its ever-growing ranks of supporters prefer OpenID because it is fundamentally different from other identity technologies in at [...]

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Johannes Ernst on December 2nd, 2006

Health Camp was interesting today. Thanks for organizing it. I’m looking forward to the next one! I’m not entirely clear who it was who put this information on the white board, but I thought it was interesting. On the question "how much information related to healthcare is available in electronic form": Consumer Data ? Physician [...]

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Johannes Ernst on December 1st, 2006

This week, I attended a very interesting presentation by Dan Pritchett and Randy Shoup, both senior technologists at eBay, on eBay’s architecture. Some of it was as I would have expected, other things were, shall we say, counter-intuitive. Here is a random collection of notes, with some special exclamation marks: 212 million registered users, 1 [...]

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