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Now Microsoft is beginning to make sense …
For some years now, I’ve heard Kim Cameron and others at Microsoft talk about "how claims will change everything" in so many different presentations, and to be frank, I didn’t get it. Neither the claims, nor the change or the everything part. So this week, I came across the Microsoft Identity Software and Services Roadmap…
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OpenID: The Beginnings of “It Works!” in Practice, Not Just In Theory
A technology works in theory if you have a piece of software and you can make it do what you want it to do for the purposes of demonstrating it and letting others try it out. It works in practice if people who utterly don’t care about your technology successfully use it because it makes…
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No Bloodshed
"For we may distinguish two main types of government. The first type consists of governments of which we can get rid without bloodshed—for example, by way of general elections; that is to say, the social institutions provide means by which the rulers may be dismissed by the ruled, and the social traditions ensure that these…
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About Myself
Note: Very much out of date. Check my home page at j12t.org instead. Professional I’m the founder and CEO of NetMesh Inc., a Silicon-Valley-based startup company that has been developing a novel type of software platform called InfoGrid. In the process, I came up with the idea of using URLs to identify people, originally calling…
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OpenID Could Be The New Visa
Imagine visiting a store, showing a plastic card with a few numbers on it to the store employee, and leaving 10 minutes later with a thousand dollars worth of goods. Best of all, you and the store can be fairly certain that neither of you were cheated. Prior to the invention of the credit card,…