Upon2020 (archive)
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The Yadis Song
Openness can have unexpected results. In case of Yadis, we were hoping that its openness would attract techies to innovate around simple, light-weight, URL-based identity. (And we have.) But here is one innovation we didn’t expect at all: a Yadis Song that somebody wrote up on the Yadis Wiki. But the openness does not end…
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Identity at PC Forum and Mix ’06
Attending both of these conferences within a week of each other, this is a study in contrasts. PC Forum caters largely to the technology establishment (if there is such a thing), VP level and above, with a sprinkling of entrepreneurs like myself. Its value is in providing a venue in which people, many of whom…
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Announcing Yadis 1.0
What if everybody’s digital identity technologies would seamlessly interoperate with everybody else’s? What if many people could come up with new ideas and protocols, and everybody could build on top of each other’s work without either having to ask for permission, or having to re-invent the wheel? The recent release of the Yadis 1.0 specification…
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Adrian Blakey calls for a really simple health information exchange protocol
He says: A lot of attention and money is being poured into Health care by US Department Of health and Human Services, who are promoting standards for Electronic Health Records systems, and a National Health Information network. The belief being that standards will promote interoperability and create a frictional-less flow of health care information between…
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21st-Century Photography
Do I need to say more? This is Dave Winer, who just took a bunch of digital pictures, trying to upload them from his laptop in broad daylight … Why does this remind me of the beginnings of photography?