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Ben Laurie: “Why Privacy Will Always Lose”
Deducted meticulously, and hard to disagree with, he finds: The popularity of a social networking site will be in inverse proportion to the goodness of its privacy controls. Time to be depressed, or time to get on with the show?
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In Doubt, Create Yet Another Identity Umbrella Organization
…or so it seems. The Kantara Initiative launched yesterday. It describes its goals as: Bridging and harmonizing the identity community with actions that will help ensure secure, identity-based, online interactions while preventing misuse of personal information so that networks will become privacy protecting and more natively trustworthy environments. Sounds like Identity Commons? Or the Liberty…
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Burton Group: “SOA Is Dead”
Given that Burton’s clients are mostly enterprises, I wonder how this will end. One of the most prominent headline-grabbers of the upcoming Catalyst conference is an entire track whose pitch reads as follows: Track: SOA Is Dead; Long Live Services Many service oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives have stalled or failed. And prospects for SOA look…
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What a Powerful Computer I have
This is an actual screen shot from my MacBook Pro’s Activity Monitor today.
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“Equal Access Principle”
Eran Hammer-Lahav blogs about an important principle behind OpenID, Yadis, OAuth and a number of related technologies that he calls the "Equal Access Principle". He says the requirements are: Support large and small providers. Any solution must work for a small hosted website as well as the world largest portal. It must be flexible enough…