Upon2020 (archive)

If you have not read Time Magazine‘s recent "Person of the Year: You" piece, I urge you to get it. It uses Big Words, Bigger Words than I have heard in a long time about anything, technology or otherwise. It is about the fundamental change in the fabric of our society that is caused by…

This story is ROTFL kind of funny. I’m having a hard time trying to stop laughing. … During the run-up to their launch, the schedule slipped significantly, and the CEO (overall a great guy) made the classic engineering management mistake of adding many more developers to the late project in hopes of speeding its completion.…

Titled Why i-names? I think they work for my people., Kaliya Hamlin makes a good case for i-names. Personally, I think it will take some time before we all know whether i-names are going to fly, and if so, for whom and for what application. Good arguments are being raised against, as are being raised…

According to a recent edit at the OSIS wiki, the Higgins project has repositioned itself slightly and sharpened its focus on what they call an Identity Agent: Higgins is an open source project hosted at the Eclipse Foundation. Although Higgins components can also be used to create IdPs and RPs, the focus is on creating…

James McGovern posted a number of questions and thoughts on Federated Identity and Authorization (the most recent installment is here), and challenged a bunch of us to respond. Well, here are some answers from my point of view: Hopefully, Johannes and Kim can tell me if Cardspace as a user interface and open ID as…