Upon2020 (archive)
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Origin of the term “Social Commerce”
I just found out that the term "Social Commerce" was coined by Mary Ruddy in a conversation with Paul Trevithick. Mary first used the term publicly in a podcast from IIW 2005. Since, Yahoo picked up the term, assorted startups use it and many people blog about it all the time as it seems. Score…
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Link Contracts in XDI
In my quest to learn more about the good stuff that other identity projects have come up with (and that often is subject to a NIH syndrome which I’m not a particular fan of), Drummond Reed has again been the target (victim?) of my questions. [The deal is that he answers my questions, but I…
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Really Scary Web Hacking Demo
If you are a techie, I highly recommend you look at the presentation "JavaScript malware just got a lot more dangerous" by Jeremiah Grossman and T.C. Niedzialkowski from WhiteHat Security, Inc. An MP4 recording of the demo is here. Wow, is this scary! They are demonstrating how to completely hijack a user’s browser session without…
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Michael Graves Said Something Profound the Other Day
He said: . If it doesn’t have a URL, it doesn’t exist. This happened to be in a hallroom conversation at Digital Identity World, in the context of URL-based digital identity. But his insight is much broader. The thought that immediately springs to my mind is Wag The Dog‘s "Of course it’s true; I saw…
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Identity Commons Charters 15 Working Groups!
Wow! By unanimous vote on its mailing list, the all-new Identity Commons has created the following 15 Working Groups: Collaborative Tools (Eugene Eric Kim) Internet Identity Workshop (Kaliya Hamlin) Identity Gang (Paul Trevithick) Standards Gang (Dick Hardt) I-Tags (Drummond Reed) Identity Schemas (Joaquin Miller) OSIS (Dale Olds) OpenID (David Recordon) SAML (Peter Davis) Identity Rights…