Apr
30

Peter Campbell raises business strategy questions about the impact of OpenID

Johannes Ernst on April 30th, 2007

Peter Campbell not only asks, "What does OpenID mean to Non-Profits?", as he says, but really "Is OpenID a net-positive or net-negative for my business?" His thoughts are equally applicable to for-profits and deserve to be treated seriously: Well, unless I’m missing something, [OpenID is] possibly a threat, and it will probably put orgs in [...]

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Apr
24

Health 2.0 Conference

Johannes Ernst on April 24th, 2007

Mark the date if you are interested in healthcare and technology. Indefatigable Matthew Holt (who writes the Health Care Blog) and Indu Subaiya (with Etude Scientific) are putting together a one-day conference titled: Health 2.0 Conference User-Generated Healthcare Online communities, blogs, wikis, podcasts, user-generated video, specialized search and web-based consumer tools are changing healthcare as [...]

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Apr
18

John Panzer and Praveen Alavilli: “Deputization”

Johannes Ernst on April 18th, 2007

I’m sitting in a talk by John Panzer and Praveen Alavilli of AOL at the Web 2.0 Expo. The talk is about "Mashing up with User-centric Identity". They just coined a new term for something important: "Deputization". They describe it as the ability of the user to deputize a piece of software to act on [...]

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Apr
17

Quote of Mine in Government Health IT

Johannes Ernst on April 17th, 2007

Government Health IT quotes me in an article on "Health care 2.0", on the shift of power from the vendor to the user, or in the healthcare environment to the patient and their families. This is of course an example of a broader trend from the Henry Ford mass-production model "You can have any color [...]

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Apr
9

The Little Thing That Became Really Important: URLs for Identity

Johannes Ernst on April 9th, 2007

Just saw that Andre Durand blogged this a couple of weeks ago: Perhaps one of the most powerful concepts of OpenID is the fact that it gives the user a visible ‘handle’ (identifier) that is used and handed out at relying party websites. It could, quite possibly, end up becoming one of the most important [...]

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