Upon2020 (archive)
-
Phil Windley has “Principles of Reputation”
They were developed during the open space day at Berkman this week. (Actually, in the basement at MIT Media Lab but who is counting.) Quite interesting. I particularly like the context-sensitivity in these principles, and the separation from what we usually mean by identity.
-
Announcing OSIS: a “Historic Development” (ZDNet)
With the title "OSIS links Internet identity systems", Phil Windley reports from the Harvard/Berkman Identity Mashup Conference this week in on ZDNet. On the subject of our announcement of OSIS, he says: OSIS is more than just a small project to build open source identity selectors for Microsoft’s CardSpace (formerly InfoCard); after all, that’s been…
-
Doc Searls: It’s about Relationships and Conversations, not Transactions
He’s speaking from the panel, and he’s telling the story about that conversation he had with the Nigerian author who pointed out what in natural markets, relationships matter much more than transactions. He says that markets consist of relationships, conversations and transactions. And in the Western business society, transactions are always at the top of…
-
Mark Wilcox explores the “How do I recognize you?” question
In a post titled "The Number Problem in Electronic Identity", partially in response to my post on identity ontologies and Mark Wahl’s on his LDAP experience, Mark Wilcox ponders: …problems that can be summed as one point: * PEOPLE DON’T LIKE TO BE REFERRED TO AS A NUMBER This is because in part, the only…
-
Great Speaker List for the Harvard Law School / Berkman Identity Mashup Conference Monday
Looking through the conference program (15 MB PDF) for the conference that starts Monday, I’m quite impressed by the list of speakers: Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science, MIT, and WWWC Ben Adida, PhD student at MIT Derrick Ashong, ASAFO Media, LLC Walter Bender, MIT Media Lab Derek Beres, Journalist Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington…