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Internet entrepreneur in identity, personal data, and trust frameworks

Jennifer Cobb on the Promise of Personal Clouds

Posted on 5/25/2012

On my last post, I said one of my five key takeaways from the last IIW was that “personal clouds have arrived”. One of the IIW attendees I quoted in that post was Jennifer Cobb of Spruce Advisors. She’s now … Continue reading →

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My Five Key Takeaways from the Best IIW Yet

Posted on 5/24/2012

I’ve done very few blog posts this year due to the speed at which I’ve been running with Connect.Me and Respect Network (more about that at the end of this post). But three weeks after it ended, I’m doing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, Identity Commons, Open Identity Exchange, OpenID, Personal Cloud, Personal Data Ecosystem, Respect Trust Framework, Social Web, XDI | 2 Comments

Support Standard Information Sharing Labels

Posted on 5/15/2012

One more a tip o’ the hat to Phil Windley for saving me a thousand words. He’s wonderfully articulated the reasons you should support Joe Andrieu’s Kickstarter project for the Standard Information Sharing Label. Phil sums it up perfectly: Just like we have … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital rights, Identity Rights Agreements, Personal Data Ecosystem, Privacy, Respect Trust Framework | 1 Comment

PLOA – Just What You Need to Know

Posted on 4/8/2012

On Friday I had a demo of PLOA – Personal Levels of Assurance — from it’s architect, Jay Glasgow at AT&T. I’ve known Jay since he attended an XDI retreat hosted by Scott David at Whistler two years ago, and at … Continue reading →

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This is What a Hole in Your Digital Life Looks Like

Posted on 4/4/2012

10:15PM Tuesday March 27, San Francisco, across the street from Alexander’s Restaurant at 4th & Brennan. I slipped into the driver’s seat of my rental car after dinner with Phil Windley and Doc Searls, took one look in the rear view mirror, and … Continue reading →

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Drummond’s Ten for Trust – Round One

Posted on 3/1/2012

Today marks the start of full Trust Anchor vouching on Connect.Me. This means Connect.Me users who have become Trust Anchors will have a lifetime allotment of 150 special vouches they can give to others as a special signal of trust … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, Respect Trust Framework, Trust Anchors | 1 Comment

Kim Cameron on Google’s New Privacy Policy

Posted on 2/28/2012

When he first introduced them in 2004, Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity changed the landscape of the Internet identity industry almost overnight. Though Kim has since stepped down as Chief Identity Architect at Microsoft, he still packs a helluva punch … Continue reading →

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The Fundamental Flaw in SOPA and PIPPA

Posted on 1/25/2012

After all the raging debate about SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), the fundamental flaw in both is captured succinctly in this public letter to Senator Orrin Hatch from Phil Windley, Kynetx CTO and author of The … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital rights, Personal Data Ecosystem, Privacy, Respect Trust Framework | 2 Comments

AT&T Are You Reading Your Own Emails???

Posted on 12/31/2011

When I upgraded to the iPhone 4S the day after Christmas (it was really an Apple Christmas in my household this year), I made the difficult decision to stick with AT&T. My experience with routinely dropped calls has been just as … Continue reading →

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XDI Art from Mike Schwartz

Posted on 12/20/2011

Mike Schwartz, CEO of Gluu and one of the hardest working members of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee, has started a series about XDI art on the Gluu blog. It lends gentle and beautiful insight into this new semantic data format … Continue reading →

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Dan Marovitz Shows his Zeal

Posted on 12/15/2011

The more I get to know Dan, the more I like his zeal. Not just his entrepreneurial zeal — which is fantastic by itself — but his zeal for life. Both are reflected in his new post on the buzzumi … Continue reading →

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Buzzumi + Twitter = World Wide Video Chat Service

Posted on 12/5/2011

In the history of this blog I don’t think I’ve ever published a press release — from anyone. Why make an exception now? Because this isn’t an ordinary press release. I first met Dan Marovitz when we were speakers together … Continue reading →

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Connect.Me: One Month In

Posted on 11/15/2011

Trust is a very delicate matter — especially online, where most if not all of the cues (location, appearance, diction, body language) we use to make trust decisions in the physical world are absent. To make matters worse, the rampant … Continue reading →

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Support for this Hypothes.is

Posted on 11/7/2011

I’m an advisor to the Hypothes.is project led by Dan Whaley. If you care about the subjects on this blog, I implore you to do two things: Watch Dan’s 5 minute video introducing Hypothes.is (at the top of the Kickstarter project … Continue reading →

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Love, Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Posted on 11/4/2011

I hate it when life gets so busy there’s not time for blog posts. They start to stack up mentally in a queue like unread books. Since the holidays are still too far away to look to them for spare … Continue reading →

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Update on Personal Event Networks: The Evented API Spec

Posted on 10/12/2011

As a follow-on to my post about Personal Event Networks last week, Phil Windley and Sam Curren have published the Evented API Specification. Phil’s blog post about it gives a good summary, but if you’re a developer just go straight to … Continue reading →

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He Was Da Man

Posted on 10/5/2011

From the Apple website, 2011-10-05

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Phil Windley on Personal Event Networks

Posted on 10/3/2011

Phil Windley has a new post called Personal Event Networks: Building the Internet of Things. The idea is simple but highly compelling: what if the range of products and services you used could actually talk to each other, over the … Continue reading →

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The Height of Insidiousness

Posted on 10/2/2011

On January 19 I did a short post titled I am so ready to get rid of these. It was about blog spammers winning the war against WordPress’s Akismet spam filter. What enraged me most is that if a comment … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs & The Courage of Great Design

Posted on 8/26/2011

There have been many tributes to Steve Jobs over the past few days but I found this short one by Bob Blakley to be particularly eloquent. All I know is that the company headed by this man has created the … Continue reading →

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