Johannes Ernst on November 21st, 2007

In a recent interview, Bob Blakley of the Burton Group, recently was asked about "the most serious problem" interoperable identity is facing. He responded: The most serious question we’re facing – and really it trumps all the others – is “how do identity providers make money”? Now here is a true statement about this budding [...]

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Johannes Ernst on November 9th, 2007

Phil Windley writes about Barbie dolls with embedded keys for Barbie-based social networking, and the obvious (for people with kids …) dynamics of technology adoption that will play out. Sounds like good ol’ PGP key signing parties were simply going after the wrong audience for mass-market success … ;-) (More seriously, there are several lessons [...]

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Johannes Ernst on November 9th, 2007

I hereby do notify the world that I shall not join any form of online service that has any of the following features: Requires me to work out who my friends are. Asks me to approve you as a friend before we can communicate. Sends me an email to tell me someone didn’t send me [...]

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Johannes Ernst on November 2nd, 2007

Just received the following invitation: OMG MARTE Information Day Modeling Analysis of Real-Time and Embedded Systems OMG Technical Meeting Special Event Burlingame, CA USA – December 12, 2007 I started the Real-Time Analysis and Design working group of the Object Management Group back in 1998, almost 10 years ago, and ran it for a bit [...]

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