Upon2020 (archive)
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Arrived at PC Forum 2006
On the plane down, I happened to sit next to Ted Cho, the CEO of Opinity. They are of course building a reputation system, and we had a lot of things to talk about where reputation meets URL-based, user-controlled identity. Stepping into Alamo, I stoood in a long line right behind Dave Winer. That gave…
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Some things not to do when applying for a job …
I’ve been going through a thick stack of engineering resumes recently. Here are my notes about what not to do when applying for a job at NetMesh; well, I think few hiring managers will disagree with much of what I’m saying here. One typo can happen in a resume. Three or more automatically disqualify you,…
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Joaquin asks me to expand on how YADIS/OpenID/LID can help reputation
It’s about time I did this … Let’s start with Wikipedia’s definition of reputation: Reputation is the general opinion (more technically, a social evaluation) of the public toward a person, a group of people, or an organization. Following the link towards social evaluation, we learn: The evaluation of an entity x is "a belief of…
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Speaking at PC Forum — again
Esther Dyson invited me to join the roundtable she’ll host at the upcoming PC Forum on: The accountable Net: Trust, reputation and identity Other participants will be from TRUSTe, Karmaphere, Attentiontrust as well as Verisign and Microsoft. I quite enjoyed being on a panel last year at PC Forum and feel honored to be on…
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IBM, Novell, Berkman beef up Higgins project to compete with InfoCard
Some of the talk to build and open-source version of InfoCard has come in the open today with IBM and Novell’s announcement to support project Higgins, a brainchild of Paul Trivithick, John Clippinger and Mary Ruddy. Congratulations, guys!