Category: Digital Identity

Sitting in an airport right now, I’m about to transfer some pictures I took with my phone to my laptop, using Bluetooth. But this being an airport, there are many Bluetooth devices around. Which of those is mine? The naive answer is: simply select the one device in the list that is named the same…

I guess I will protect the guilty and not provide a link.

Updated. The array of initiatives and working groups and acronyms in identity is large, seemingly growing all the time and very definitely a bewildering jungle to the newcomer. This problem just came up again today in the Identity Open Space (see, one of those bewildering places!) after Digital Identity World (another), and I figured somebody…

Finally, the rather intriguing social graph aggregation project that Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon have been working was announced publicly on Six Apart’s blog today by David. Go ahead and read the long post; also compare the more technical paper they wrote earlier. Let me first say that I have no idea what Six Apart’s…

NetMesh is proud to co-sponsor the first OpenID bounty awards. Five-thousand dollars each were awarded last week at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference to open-source projects: Drupal Plone dotnetnuke Congratulations, winners!