links for 2009-03-31
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Uses Mobipocket Reader. Works with Kindle
links for 2009-03-30
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directory of Twitter applications
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"With IBM rumored to have made a $6.5 billion buyout offer for Sun Microsystems, it appears the company that coined the phrase “The Network is the Computer†is in play. But no one should allow IBM to walk away with Sun — which is still rich with talent, technology and engineering chops — at that price. All IBM would do is sell it off in pieces and keep a few jewels for itself, essentially eliminating a competitor. Everything else is codeine-influenced pillow talk."
My Birthday Kindle!
My dear wife give me an Amazon Kindle for my birthday today! What an enjoyable little device! I am looking forward to loading it up with books and reducing the weight of my briefcase a bit. Plus, I’m experimenting with the basic wireless web access it provides and have some interesting ideas on how it will help me in more ways than just being a cool reading device.
Thanks again, Claudia!
Technorati Tags: Kindle, Birthday
links for 2009-03-29
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"The future of open source computing, and indeed, the future of computing in general, lies in cloud computing, according to Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems."
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Tweet Top provides links to the top tweeters on popular topics
links for 2009-03-28
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"The Microsoft® Federation Gateway is a new identity service that runs in the cloud—that is, over the Internet and beyond your corporate network domain. This gateway service sits between an organization or business like yours and the services that the organization wants to use."
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"Microsoft is telling customers and partners that it has pushed back the final delivery date of its “Identity Lifecycle Manager 2″ from early 2009 to the first quarter of 2010."
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Software to address mobile wallet, banking and payments.
links for 2009-03-27
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"A shadowy group of IT industry companies — possibly including IBM (NYSE:IBM) — is preparing to release a series of guidelines for maintaining interoperability in cloud computing. But Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT), in a delicious stroke of irony, doesn't feel the group's efforts have been carried out with a suitable degree of openness."
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"Go Paperless, Save Space. In some ways, spring cleaning is like a little move we do annually. Instead of moving out of our homes or apartments …"
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"Going green? Or going neat? Get rid of that paper!"
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"Cloud-themed puns have since multiplied, generating even a few seemingly contradictory uses. Sun Microsystems Inc. recently unveiled a product called the "Sun Cloud." Microsoft Corp. sells a cloud service called "Azure," which the dictionary defines as a cloudless sky. Apple Inc., of course, is doing its own thing: Its new Mobile Me product is branded not with the word cloud, but with an image of one."
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"RIM's new mobile app store likely to do better than Microsoft's and Android's mirroring early success of iPhone, according to study."
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"Only five years after its launch, Skype has emerged as the largest provider of cross-border voice communications in the world," said TeleGeography analyst Stephan Beckert."
Identity on my Mind: Browsers, Boxes and Clouds
Almost sounds like an old country song …
It’s really too early in the morning for normal people to blog, but insomnia is a double-edged sword. It deprives my body of sleep, but creates extra time to read and think.
Three Identity subjects I have been reading about and intend to blog about in the near future include:
- Identity in the Browser. Work by Google and discussions in the Concordia group are beginning to address how identity selector capabilities centered in the browser might provide an alternative to methods currently championed by Microsoft and Higgins. My particular interest is how this effort might yield the right balance between ease of use and sufficient security by focusing right at the point where people are accessing the Internet.
- Identity in a Box. How can Identity Management software be effectively packaged in configurable appliances to streamline implementation and lower costs for mid market enterprises?
- Identity in the Cloud. What are the challenges and opportunities for delivering Identity services within the highly virtualized, scalable and diverse cloud computing paradigm?
If you have thoughts in these areas, please let me know what you think.
Technorati Tags: Identity, Identity Management, Digital Identity, Cloud Computing, Higgins, CardSpace
links for 2009-03-26
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"Internet start-up Twitter is taking a much-anticipated first-step in its quest to parlay its popularity into revenue by offering certain customers an expanded range of services."
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"the rumor mill is humming with speculation that the iPhone is in line for a major hardware upgrade. "
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"A new version of the software called ReQall Pro, which launches today, focuses on issuing reminders in the right place at the right time. ReQall Pro works with iPhones and Blackberrys, using the location information collected by these devices, as well as information gleaned from the contents of each memo, to work out when (and where) to jog a user's memory."
Sacrifice a Banker Today?
Would you like to be a banker in today’s economy?
Or … perhaps we should sacrifice a member of Congress instead?
Technorati Tags: Non Sequitur, Banking, Economics
We Follow #Identity
This evening I visited wefollow.com, a "user-powered Twitter directory." Any one with a Twitter address can join the directory by specifying up to three tags of choice — Identity attributes as it were. My three tags: #identity, #LDS and #Arizona.
It was nice to see that way out on the long tail of Twitterdom, with my follower count only about 0.1% of @THE_REAL_SHAQ or @BarackObama, I can still crack the top twenty in each of my chosen categories.
I’d guess that proves that there’s a lot of folks who haven’t signed up yet.
But I enjoyed seeing fellow Identity afficionados like @metadaddy, @iglazer, @LudoMP, @ncrown and @hmathew in the top 25 of #Identity.
Technorati Tags: Identity, Twitter, WeFollow, Digital Identity, Long Tail
