Nov
24

Microsoft turning the LDAP directory into a Graph Database?

Johannes Ernst on November 24th, 2009

Just finished watching Kim Cameron‘s talk at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. A bit of a surprise that talk of WS-* has largely disappeared in favor of much about REST. But the most interesting part, for me, was at the end, when Gert Drapers (Principal Architect, Identity and Access Platform), gave a demo on [...]

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Nov
23

The End of an Era

Johannes Ernst on November 23rd, 2009

I just carried out two big boxes. All music CDs have been banned from our house, starting immediately. No more music? Nope. Just the realization that all our CD collection still does is collecting dust and taking up space. I don’t remember when I last inserted a CD into the stereo. It must have been [...]

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Nov
19

Kynetx, Azigo Show What is Possible With a Personal Data Store

Johannes Ernst on November 19th, 2009

The magic would never have been possible if their vision had stopped at an “Identity Selector”, for years billed as the savior of the identity universe (see my recent post Why We Really Don’t Need an “Identity Selector”). This week at Kynetx’ conference, Paul and Phil had their coming-out party re-interpreting the “identity selector” as [...]

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Nov
6

Why We Really Don’t Need an “Identity Selector”

Johannes Ernst on November 6th, 2009

As of this week’s Internet Identity Workshop, I’m now rather convinced that an “identity selector” is the wrong product and the wrong feature set, regardless of the exact details of a particular vendor’s implementation. Several discussions in several contexts, including how to best make a browser identity-aware, all point to the same conclusion, regardless if [...]

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Nov
3

Kim Cameron: OpenID is the Most Widely Adopted System for Reusable Internet Identity

Johannes Ernst on November 3rd, 2009

The list of brand-name OpenID adopters speaks for itself, with — by some counts — now more than 1 billion functional OpenIDs on the open internet, but for the internet identity movement this quote from Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s Chief Identity Architect, is rather significant: In the last year, OpenID has without doubt become the most [...]

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