From the category archives:

Digital Identity

Wish @danyork well. He’s working so you have control over your information and content.

September 14, 2011

Congratulations to Dan York! He announced today that he’s taking up a new position at the Internet Society. There’s one line in his announcement that really resonated with me from his post and has been my passion for years too. “single points of failure” and the need for services that are “distributed and decentralized” that [...]

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#Google+ Circles or TRUST and the IDENTITY CIRCLE – The Past Rehashed :)

July 11, 2011

I’ve been trying out Google+ and I like it. I like Circles and Hangouts (I’ll provide a separate post on Hangouts) the names even mean something to me. By referencing the notes below I draw one conclusion – yet to be proven re Google’s longer term intent. I’ve also added additional links worth reading at [...]

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Your Identity Broker for Packages or in Fact Any Exchange Very Phweet

November 23, 2009

SendSocial via @Aswath (thanks!) and Andy Abramson a varation on using any ID and then brokering the exchange. This is a great variation. Twitter’s free pipe (at least for now) is enabling low cost entry for almost anyone to broker connections between one or more parties.). SendSocial let’s you address a package without knowing anything [...]

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Norman Lewis “talking about us” at #ecomm

October 28, 2009

Norman Lewis, Open-Knowledge UK, Founding Partner, says he will talk about something different. Talking about “us” the people, the user, the pivot for everything we do in the future. We will change the entire landscape. “telecom’s bandwidth doubles every century”. It’s important as we now have the capacity to link people in ways that was [...]

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Should blogposts expire? Should comments? What’s your policy?

April 8, 2009

What do you do when you no longer want your blog? What if a post you wrote once contains information about someone else and a link to their expired blog and they want to disappear from the net? And no… this blog is not past its expiry date, although at times I’ve thought about giving [...]

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Where’s the Flow? Where’s My Control?

April 1, 2008

There’s a meme going around about where my information is. Loic wants it back. I started on this process some time ago thinking about lifestreams. Then Stowe chimes in with it’s all about flows. Both are right. We are learning to reconfigure how we capture and share expanded lifestreams in an accelerated environment. It’s also [...]

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eComm Impact on The Future of Social Networks

March 11, 2008

Today I bookmarked a presentation by Charlene Li on “The Future of Social Networks“. I’d really like to spend more time commenting on it. However, I’m going to use it as a setup some eComm thoughts which starts tomorrow. I’ll be there and looking to put a new “lens” on advancements and where to find [...]

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Mobivox – “Connecting You and Me by Name”

February 19, 2008

A few years ago I went to CES2005 in search of new VoIP products. At the time I came across VoxLib a product that could make and receive Skype calls on a normal home phone. When you picked up the phone you got VoxGirl who asked… who would you like to call. There were many [...]

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Exchanging Trust

May 7, 2003

Has the Global Trust Exchange just been miss-interpreted? Is it the language or the concept? We all exchange information all the time for value creation. See the applications. The real question is what’s the value of your missed opportunities?

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