People don’t buy plumbing, they buy a nice house that happens to include plumbing (otherwise it wouldn’t be a nice house). So if OpenID and all the other members of the “Open Stack” are mere plumbing, as I have come to believe, they are the plumbing of what? What is the equivalent of the house [...]
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This time, they moved the second IIW of the year forward to November. As usually, it will probably be worth it. I’m registered. Time: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 9:00 AM – Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 5:00 PM Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
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So what exactly are we all building here? OpenID? OpenID plus OAuth plus Yadis/XRD(S) plus Portable Contacts plus OpenSocial plus activity streams? That’s a handful, so some have been calling it the “Open Stack“. Is that what we are building? But what about RSS (and syndication in general), iCal feeds, widgets, mash-ups and so forth? [...]
Martin Kuppinger, leading analyst of all things digital identity, based in Munich, Germany, called earlier this week for a conversation about business models for identity product and service companies. A good reason to ponder what we’ve learned in the past year or so about those business models or, more correctly, lack thereof. Here are my [...]
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Burton Group: Evaluate Identity Services Now
Bob Blakley at the Burton Group just published a report on “The Business of Identity Services”. He focuses on services at the identity provider side and outlines possible identity services businesses on the identity provider side in some detail. It seems he is more optimistic about new identity services business opportunities than I am at [...]
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