Upon2020 (archive)
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See You In Munich (München!) This Coming Week
I’m about to leave for the First European Identity Conference in München. A number of people already have contacted me wanting to meet, and I’m looking forward to doing so. Having been born there, and worked there for a while with BMW, and then run away to California ;-) I’m also looking forward to some…
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Peter Campbell raises business strategy questions about the impact of OpenID
Peter Campbell not only asks, "What does OpenID mean to Non-Profits?", as he says, but really "Is OpenID a net-positive or net-negative for my business?" His thoughts are equally applicable to for-profits and deserve to be treated seriously: Well, unless I’m missing something, [OpenID is] possibly a threat, and it will probably put orgs in…
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Health 2.0 Conference
Mark the date if you are interested in healthcare and technology. Indefatigable Matthew Holt (who writes the Health Care Blog) and Indu Subaiya (with Etude Scientific) are putting together a one-day conference titled: Health 2.0 Conference User-Generated Healthcare Online communities, blogs, wikis, podcasts, user-generated video, specialized search and web-based consumer tools are changing healthcare as…
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John Panzer and Praveen Alavilli: “Deputization”
I’m sitting in a talk by John Panzer and Praveen Alavilli of AOL at the Web 2.0 Expo. The talk is about "Mashing up with User-centric Identity". They just coined a new term for something important: "Deputization". They describe it as the ability of the user to deputize a piece of software to act on…
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Quote of Mine in Government Health IT
Government Health IT quotes me in an article on "Health care 2.0", on the shift of power from the vendor to the user, or in the healthcare environment to the patient and their families. This is of course an example of a broader trend from the Henry Ford mass-production model "You can have any color…