Author Archives: Drummond Reed

About Drummond Reed

Internet entrepreneur in identity, personal data, and governance frameworks

UMA is Cool

Posted on 10/6/2010 by Drummond Reed

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 Drummond Reed

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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Out with "Personal Data Store", In with "Personal Data Service"

Posted on 10/3/2010 by Drummond Reed

UPDATE: Please also see the revision to this post that harmonizes the terms “personal data store” and “personal data service”. I’ve been blogging about “personal data stores” for two years now, but as of last Thursday I’m done with it. … Continue reading →

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Phil Windley's PDX Principles

Posted on 9/10/2010 by Drummond Reed

IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) continues to amaze me. I just returned from the first IIW East in Washington D.C. and I spent much of the plane ride back thinking about and acting on the conversations I had there over the … Continue reading →

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Finally Taking Off a Hat

Posted on 8/24/2010 by Drummond Reed

When the Information Card Foundation (ICF) and OpenID Foundation (OIDF) launched the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) at RSA on March 2, I temporarily added the hat of OIX Executive Director. ICF agreed to loan me half time to OIX to … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Identity Exchange, Personal Data Store, VRM | 2 Comments

IIW East Coming in Washington D.C. Sept 9/10

Posted on 8/5/2010 by Drummond Reed

Given all the intersections between open identity and governments (in particular the US government, but several others are not far behind), it’s about time we had an Internet Identity Workshop in D.C. Now we do — immediately following Gov 2.0. … Continue reading →

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Phil Windley on XDI

Posted on 8/5/2010 by Drummond Reed

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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Inception

Posted on 8/1/2010 by Drummond Reed

About half-way through this movie, I found myself wondering how Christopher Nolan every got it made. No Hollywood exec would ever believe a movie with a plot this complex and layered could find a wide audience. Wrong. It is to … Continue reading →

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The PDX is Coming

Posted on 4/29/2010 by Drummond Reed

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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kd lang: Hallelujah

Posted on 3/18/2010 by Drummond Reed

I’ve been meaning to say this on my blog ever since the opening ceremonies in Vancouver. But since I just had the chance to recreate the experience on the Web, let me say it loud and clear for the record: … Continue reading →

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Comments on the Google account problem

Posted on 2/13/2010 by Drummond Reed

First, my apologies to everyone who commented on Fixing the Google Account Problem. For some reason WordPress stopped notifying me about comment approval (I’m using Akismet but I still find the majority of comments that get through it are spam, … Continue reading →

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The Incredible Internet Answer Machine #2

Posted on 2/10/2010 by Drummond Reed

I receive an email from a friend: Drummond, As my Word expert, how do I turn off the “balloon” captioning of redline changes? I think, “Good question. I have no idea. I’ve often wondered that myself.” I’m about to start … Continue reading →

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The Incredible Internet Answer Machine

Posted on 2/6/2010 by Drummond Reed

I know reams have been written about “are we all getting dumber because the Internet is getting smarter?” But still, it does take my breath away, almost every day. In another one for the “new heights of irony” file: I … Continue reading →

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Avatar – Ahhhhhhhh

Posted on 2/6/2010 by Drummond Reed

This may be the only blog post I ever write with no link in it. But, reading today that Avatar has finally knocked off Titanic as the #1 grossing movie of all time, one hardly needs to provide a link … Continue reading →

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Fixing the Google Account problem

Posted on 1/24/2010 by Drummond Reed

Every so often you experience a technical problem you can’t find any information about and which takes you forever to solve. Then, after you finally solve it, you are left scratching your head saying, “I don’t get it—there must be … Continue reading →

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