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Five Bears in One Day!
We went to Yosemite this past weekend. In the past, we’ve seen deers, coyotes of course, an occasional rattle snake, a bobcat once, and every few years, a bear. And this Sunday morning, in two encounters, a total of five bears, right from Tioga Road without even getting out of the car! Here are two…
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Nico Popp Outlines Government OpenID Adoption
Nico Popp, over at VeriSign, has an interesting post outlining how he thinks the US federal government will adopt OpenID: … there is a clear view that the deployment of low level assurance identities is only a critical first step, not an end in itself. With the initial OpenID pilot, the administration is seeking to…
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Is OpenID/Open Stack What Grand Central Tried to Do?
Remember high-profile Grand Central Networks, which was one of the very few high-flying tech startups after the collapse of the dot-com bubble? (Not to be confused with what became Google Voice, they only reuse the domain name.) Grand Central was founded by Halsey Minor, with the vision of electronically connecting companies and ASPs via standard…
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OpenID and Government
Today’s news about major identity initiatives in the US Federal Government is indeed great news. But it does make me think. Kick Willemse asked the key question on an OpenID mailing list: How about a dutch (international) OP fullfilling all criteria? What about one in Russia or China? Would the US government accept identities asserted…
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Don Hinchcliffe Thinks The Plumbing Is Called the “Web OS”
Don Hinchcliffe has an interesting graphic in a recent post on ZDNet: Some people have commented that it’s all buzzwords, and of course it is. But there is value in just collecting all the buzzwords that are relevant at the current time, and attempt to integrate them into something we can all get our arms…