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Spot the Difference: Yahoo/Facebook vs. Government/Health IT
Or should have said “spot the similarities”? Today, two pieces of news came in right after each other: The US Federal Government’s Beacon Community Program has been given $235 million of taxpayer money for “… interoperable health IT and standards-based information exchange within and among providers, hospitals, and populations” “within 15 diverse communities throughout the…
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Microsoft turning the LDAP directory into a Graph Database?
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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Kynetx, Azigo Show What is Possible With a Personal Data Store
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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Why We Really Don’t Need an “Identity Selector”
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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Kim Cameron: OpenID is the Most Widely Adopted System for Reusable Internet Identity
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…