Upon2020 (archive)

  • OpenID Bounty Awards

    NetMesh is proud to co-sponsor the first OpenID bounty awards. Five-thousand dollars each were awarded last week at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference to open-source projects: Drupal Plone dotnetnuke Congratulations, winners!

  • Plaxo Does OpenID

    The reason Joseph Smarr came to all these identity meetings in recent months was revealed yesterday: Plaxo now does OpenID. This is great news. It’s particularly gratifying for me: Plaxo was one of the very first companies I pitched LID 1.0 (Light-Weight Identity) to, the first URL-based identity scheme, at the end of 2004 —…

  • Failures in the World of Identity Management

    Something must have happened to cause James McGovern to write this; an over-zealous vendor perhaps … Listen to this: …the grand exalted CIO Guru stands on his/her pedestal and pontificates to the masses that identity management is the greatest thing since sliced bread, will ease the burden of compliance and that all applications will expose…

  • James McGovern Points Out CARML

    Maybe "points out" isn’t the right word, but James is challenging Pat Patterson, Kim Cameron, Dick Hardt and myself to provide feedback on Oracle’s CARML (links to PDF) specification. Can’t not take this bait, can I? My first impression is that the goals behind it are very laudable: as the Oracle web page on the…

  • OpenID wins WebWare 100 Award

    Just after bagging the NextWeb award, OpenID is now also a WebWare 100 winner. Of course, we knew that all along. Glad that CNet’s readers agree ;-) Other winners in the same category: Firefox Google Reader Internet Explorer 7 My Yahoo Netvibes OpenID Opera Safari StumbleUpon yourminis