Upon2020 (archive)
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Jason Kolb thinks e-mail addresses are all we need for single-sign-on
He writes: Why can’t sign-on work like this? The user goes to the site’s URL (www.buycrap.com) Before they can buy something, the user has to enter their email username and password (Jason@jasonkolb.com and test123) www.buystuff.com looks up the email server for jasonkolb.com from the domain registrar (using the domain’s MX record). We now have a…
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RedMonk’s Coté on the New World of Identity
Coté, software industry analyst with RedMonk, posted in detail on what he calls "Identity 2.0, Trustless Redirects, OpenID, LID, and Friends…or, Learning to Spell ‘Centralized’". He investigates, in some detail: OpenID, LID, Sxip and also mentions Livejournal, ClaimID, Yadis, MicroID, and our MyLID.net (linked correctly, but misspelled as MyLID.com). I’m going to cherry-pick a bit…
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Short Higgins Overview
From a Higgins talk at EclipseCon. Higgins is a software framework that integrates identity data profile data relationship data within and across multiple systems. This quote, and the accompanying 6 slides are the best summary of what Higgins is all about that I have seen so far. Recommended. Download PowerPoint slides.
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100,063 Pieces of Spam
Some time ago, I decided not to regularly empty my spam folder any more. And today, I’m proud (?) to announce that it now contains 100,063 spam messages. 100,063 pieces of spam! All to me! What is the world coming to. Two and a half years ago I wrote a piece called "Death of e-mail?",…
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First Yadis/LID/OpenID Wiki Spam
Another indication that Yadis/LID/OpenID is taking off: today, rss-extensions.org, one of the wikis that we run at NetMesh, was defaced with spam by a user who authenticated himself through OpenID. For eternity, let it be know that it was http://oriflame1.livejournal.com/; his "contribution" involved the usual assortment of drugs (mostly), sex and ringtones. I think we’ve…