Just short of a year ago I hacked together a project that we loving called scrumdidilyumptio.us. I and Wiley managed to finish it at about 2 in the morning in a hotel in NY during the Mellon meeting. (I actually worked on it during the meeting which resulted in terrible embarsement when my system speaker…
Newbs Impressions of Digital Identity
I am new to the area of Digital Identity but I think that it is pretty dang confusing. I will show my ignorance here, but I am OK with that. I thought that OSIS was setup to unify the different groups, but then there is Identity Commons which OSIS is a part of and that…
Identity Introduction
Since we are newbs there are various introductory talks. Conference schedule. Conference Feedback/Collaboration Aggregation of identity blogs – http://www.planetidentity.org/. Kaliya Hamlin gave a brief introduction using this map. Protect applications from identity complexities Allow digital identity to be loosely coupled User controlled and user centered Identity doesn’t make sense if locked into one system. Identity…
Internet Identity Workshop 2006
I and Trent are headed to the Internet Identity Workshop this next week. This is one of those hard to figure out areas that is becoming more and more important. We hope to have some kind of solution in place with Ozmozr within the next year or so. Hopefully, this workshop will help us nail…
Diet
I haven’t been riding in about a month which really sucks because I am gaining back weight. The trainer is almost setup though – have to make space in the basement – so I hope to be back on the bike soon. In the mean time I have been thinking about diet and about ever…
Do the economics really work out on this?
We ran some errand yesterday and went by the local Best Buy. I noticed a rather motley looking group hanging around outside and of course we have to ask the guys in the store what the deal is. I forgot the PS3 comes out this weekend. They are all camped out so they can spend…
Web 2.0 Conference After Thoughts
The conference was a lot of fun and it was interesting to meet people from all over who have a hand in or want to get their hands into the Web 2.0 craze. The speakers were basically an overwhelming mix of CEOs and whos who from every major Internet player. It was exciting to hear…
Yahoo! Technology Preview – Brad Garlinghouse , Ethan Diamond
250 million people access yahoo mail every day. They are building web 2.0 experiences to Yahoo mail. Features: When email it will show you if the other user is online. If you click that the email window turns into a chat window and let’s you chat with the other person. If the other person goes…
Kevin Rose – Digg
What we’ve learned. 600k registered people who find stuff and then digg it to the homepage. Rumsfield’s resignation set an all time record for Digg. It took 4 minutes for it to hit the home page. It took 25 minutes to make the Google home page. Showing Digg swarm right now. The Rumsfield bubble grew…
Disruption Opportunity: Venture Capital – Roger McNamee , Ram Shriram
Shriram – Starting an Internet business has never been cheaper. Looks for teams that don’t have business guys early on. The business can develop as time goes on. Why take 5 million when you only need 1 million to start a business. He would rather see a business start lean and work lean with laser…