Friday, July 18, 2008 - Posts

• Deutsche Telekom wins IDDY 2008 Award

  Just copying from the Liberty Alliance press release ... Deutsche Telekom AG - Deutsche Telekom AG has received a Multi-Protocol IDDY Award for its identity application designed to lower implementation barriers when it comes to the delivery of Online/IP-based services to consumers. Initially launched in 2002 and winner of the 2006 IDDY Award, the application has been steadily enhanced to offer multi-protocol capabilities for service provider interfaces as well as for authentication methods and automatic Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 5:28 PM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments

• IDDY 2008

  The Liberty Alliance announced the winners of this years IDDY awards today. Aetna – Aetna received a 2008 IDDY Deployment Award for an externally hosted online provider portal used for linking healthcare providers with health plans. Working with NaviMedix, the portal includes a variety of tools including transactions and content hosted by Aetna with interfaces to third-party Internet Application Service Providers and Content Service Providers. The deployment was launched in the US in December 2007 Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 4:17 PM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• Using Abdera and the Jersey Client API

  Marc recently published a short tutorial on how to use Apache Abdera with Apache Abdera with our reference implementation of JAX-RS, Jersey . His code is server side, i.e. it explains using Jersey and Abdera for creating RESTful web services with Atom payload [1] . In this article I will give an example on how the Jersey client API can be used to consume such a service with realitve ease. It is hopefully known that Jersey contains a very simple, yet effective HTTP client API. Core to it is the heavy Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 3:43 PM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: Web Services, java, JAX-RS, Jersey, Atom

• Round Up the Usual Suspects

  As a birthday present to me, the FBI's Terrorist Watch List database added its one millionth entry this week, according to the ACLU's estimate . I've been waiting for this event, because the one millionth entry gives us a nice round number to do the calculations which demonstrate that the terrorist watch list is as close to completely useless as it's possible for a manmade artifact to get. (Note that the database doesn't actually contain a million identities; it's got a million records representing Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 2:23 PM from Ceci n'est pas un Bob | 1 Comments

• Getting from A to B

  In 'The Discovers', Daniel J. Boorstin describes the process by which 14th & 15th century sailors of the North Sea and Baltic transitioned from their tried and true navigational method of depth sounding to the new-fangled magnetic compass. Much of their sailing was in shallow waters where sailors had long since been finding their way by feeling their way along the bottom.... Their soundings traced the shape and character of the floor of the sea by "lead and line".... After the compass arrived, Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 12:46 PM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• The Social Web TV: Meebo Community IM

  Shot another episode of The Social Web TV with John and Joseph yesterday. Focused mainly on Meebo's new Community IM and how it's continuing the trend of making the entire web more social. Check it out and I'll be at both Facebook f8 and OSCON next week. Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 12:10 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology

• VRM Workshop 2008

  This week's VRM Workshop at the Berkman Center in Cambridge, MA was quite interesting. It helped me quite a bit to sort out how Identity Management and VRM intersect, but also differ in some respect. To put it in a nutshell, I believe that the biggest difference between the two is that they are essentially two different ways of looking at the same problem. "Traditional" identity management has been focusing largely on the varies subjects (and objects), their characterization, and how they can be Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 10:15 AM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity

• OpenSocial and Liberty

  OpenSocial and Liberty People Services are really tackling the same problem - only from two opposing sites. While the LAP PS has established a solid foundation for secure identity management, OpenSocial has started out to define an API for allowing social networking (but also other) software from different source to be run in one (or more than one) container. Ideally, these container abstract away the underlying platform and thus enable application portability. This becomes quite useful, since facebook, Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 10:09 AM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity