Category Archives: XDI

My Five Key Takeaways from the Best IIW Yet

Posted on 5/24/2012 by

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

XDI Art from Mike Schwartz

Posted on 12/20/2011 by

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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Update on Personal Event Networks: The Evented API Spec

Posted on 10/12/2011 by

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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Phil Windley on Personal Event Networks

Posted on 10/3/2011 by

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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True Data Portability

Posted on 1/12/2011 by

I’ve been on the board of Dataportability.org since its founding three years ago. The concept made quite a splash when it was first announced, but I knew that after the hype wore off would come all the hard work of … Continue reading →

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The real de(tai)l

Posted on 12/2/2010 by

Techcrunch had a link to this simply excellent blog post about the details behind the readability of Google Maps. It’s like a mini-Malcolm Gladwell essay devoted just to showing why it really is the details that make the difference when … Continue reading →

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UMA is Cool

Posted on 10/6/2010 by

People know I’m an XDI nut and Eve Maler is an UMA nut. And some people wonder if there isn’t a whole lot of overlap between UMA and XDI (and why Eve and I are not fighting a protocol jihad). … Continue reading →

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Taking Off Another Hat

Posted on 10/3/2010 by

After piling on too many hats on for the longest time, I’m now peeling some off. First I took off the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) Executive Director hat in August, and now I’m stepping down as Information Card Foundation (ICF) … Continue reading →

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Phil Windley on XDI

Posted on 8/5/2010 by

Phil Windley, co-founder and CTO of Kynetx (among the many hats he wears), wrote his own rules language, KRL, to “program the Web”. So when Phil writes the following about XDI after he and his team did a two-day deep … Continue reading →

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Portability Policies and Personal Data Stores

Posted on 6/29/2010 by

My primary involvement as a member of the board of the Data Portability Project has been input about XDI as an open standard for portable data. But I’ve always been very enthusiastic about DP’s work on Portability Policies. The DP … Continue reading →

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The PDX is Coming

Posted on 4/29/2010 by

Remember that year-end blog post about how personal data stores (PDS) are closer than they may appear? Now read Phil Windley’s wonderful summary of why it makes so much sense to create a PDX (not really an acronym for “personal … Continue reading →

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Joe Andrieu Cuts the Gordian Data Ownership Knot

Posted on 1/21/2010 by

Joe Andrieu has a wonderful way of cutting the Gordian knot on complex socio-technical topics, with clear prose, compelling arguments, and clever illustrations that explain why you should look at something decidedly differently. Now he wields that knife on the … Continue reading →

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VRM Rising

Posted on 1/6/2010 by

I recommend Doc’s new post that explains the essence of what’s behind VRM. It’s a big vision, his, but Doc has a way of framing the future that makes it look inevitable – all that remains is the question of … Continue reading →

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Personal Data Stores – The Time is Coming

Posted on 12/28/2009 by

This entire fall has been intense with work, thus the paucity of posts here. The holidays brings a welcome respite and a chance to catch up with a few key mental threads. One of them is the growing awareness of … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Portability, Dataweb, Personal Data Store, R-Cards, Relationship cards, Social Web, VRM, XDI | 4 Comments

The Permissioned Web: Open Does Not Mean Public Domain

Posted on 5/13/2009 by

At the Glue Conference this week I’m enjoying a great set of speakers lined up by Eric Norlin on the topic of how everything in the networked universe gets glued together using Web 2.0 tools and beyond. (The talk Mitch … Continue reading →

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Kynetx: Rules Rule

Posted on 2/9/2009 by

More about the long quiet spell soon. First I must post about a trip I made last week to spend the day with Phil Windley, his partner Stephen Fulling, and the inimitable Craig Burton down in Salt Lake City. What … Continue reading →

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Eve Finds Another Intersection

Posted on 9/4/2008 by

I’m going to start referring to her as the Venn Queen. Eve Maler has done another Venn diagram, this time to show the relationship of whole areas of the “user-centric” sphere of activities. Going into Digital ID World next week, … Continue reading →

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Joe Nails it Open

Posted on 7/13/2008 by

Joe Andrieu nails another super post (where DOES he find the time to write/draw all of these???), this time about what it means for a platform to really be open. My favorite part is that he doesn’t just do it … Continue reading →

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Principles of VRM

Posted on 7/9/2008 by

Doc Searls has done a very succinct post on the Principles of VRM in preparation for the VRM Workshop next week in Boston. You can’t read it and not see how closely VRM is related to r-cards (relationship cards) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Higgins, Identity Rights Agreements, R-Cards, Relationship cards, VRM, XDI | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Relationship Cards (R-Cards)

Posted on 7/1/2008 by

So much for the naive thought that I’ have time at the Burton Catalyst conference last week to finally blog about two subjects near and dear to my heart that I knew would be covered at the conference. It backfired … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Portability, General, Higgins, I-Cards, Identity Rights Agreements, Information cards, R-Cards, Relationship cards, Social Web, VRM, XDI, XRDS | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments