Monthly Archives: September 2006

Yahoo! Single Sign On APIs Release

Yahoo! has just released a new set of APIs for enabling SSO on the web. TechCrunch has a good review. There are two pieces to BBAuth. The first is a single sign on tool to authenticate the user. The second … Continue reading

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Identity in the Blogosphere

The Blogosphere is exploding with activity. Driven by empowered users who are leveraging easy-to-use tools, blogging is transforming the publishing industry. CNN had an interesting article on the number of blogs in china. BEIJING, China (Reuters) — The number of … Continue reading

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BusinessWeek article on Click Fraud

Last week, Business Week had a great article on click fraud. The writers did a great job detailing the issues with the paid-to-click (PTA) businesses working with domain parking services to make click fraud happen. One additional angle I would … Continue reading

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Taking passwords to the grave

Interesting article on CNET related to the issues with estate planning in the on-line world. The problem is getting messier with users moving a lot of their financial and organizational information on to the web. One of the suggestions in … Continue reading

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Free Utilities

A great list of free open source utilities and apps along with reviews (via Digg)…I actually use a number of these and most of them rock!!!

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Privacy and Social networks

There was a time a few years back where privacy was a huge issue on the web. Consumer advocates were up in arms about companies not guarding customer’s information or even selling it to other companies. The apparent issue with … Continue reading

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Pretexting and social engineering

Great summary from Kim Cameron of the NPR show on pretexting and privacy issues brought froth by HP spying scandal (originally from Craig Burton)…Pretexting is a problem that will be there as long as there is profit to be made … Continue reading

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Mystery of online community

John C. Dvorak, the often controversial and flamboyant columnist at the PC magazine had an interesting post, related to the problems with virtual on-line communities. The problem with on-line communities has been the lack of an identity infrastructure and other … Continue reading

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On the absurdity of owning one’s identity

Check out Bob Blakely’s well reasoned article On The Absurdity of Owning One’s Identity. Bob provides a powerful argument for how in social networks and in society, owning one’s identity is an unworkable proposition.

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What is identity?

There are a number of problems with the identity systems available on the Internet: Trying to keep track of all the username and passwords of all different accounts is hard enough but if you are like my wife, who likes … Continue reading

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