Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Posts

• No User Context Decisions in your Enterprise?

  Photo Credit: CarbonNYC (http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/76468122/) Enterprise use of information cards have been a topic of great thought for me leading up to my talk at the Directory Experts Conference in Chicago this month and culminating in a panel at last week’s Novell BrainShare conference, in which Patrick Harding, Kim Cameron, Dale Olds and myself talked to [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:57 PM from Adventures of an Eternal Optimist | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, MS/AD/InfoCards/CardSpace

• Ma.gnolia Goes OpenID Only

  Chris Messina mentioned this to me yesterday as we're both up in Seattle for a Microsoft Technology Summit, but Ma.gnolia is now only accepting OpenIDs for new signups! This is also reflected in their login page which now defaults to OpenID and allows you to select from various OpenID Providers (including the "Yahoo! button") as well as a traditional username and password for existing users. Ma.gnolia was one of the earlier supporters of OpenID so I'm both excited and grateful that they're helping Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:12 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, technology, w00t

• What's the point anyways?

  Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:21 PM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• Torn asunderer

  Now it is the Danes playing Canada in the Womens Curling Worlds . Can I not enjoy a single game where my loyalties are not divided? Where I could cheer unreservedly for Canada, and wish nothing but bad things for their opponents? For instance, is there no Irish team? Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:44 PM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• Finders Seekers (Losers Weepers)

  I just watched the video in which Yahoo! FireEagle was announced. It's a geolocation broker, a user's geolocation is shared with FireEagle by any device or mechanism capapable of determining it (the 'Finders'), so that it can be subsequently shared with any other application (the 'Seekers') that may want it (user permissions allowing etc). Do the potential privacy advantages of a broker model (i.e. single point of control, etc) outweigh the basic privacy principle of minimal disclosure? FireEagle Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:59 AM from ConnectID | 1 Comments