The shot above was made at the Kynetx Impact conference, which is the first one I’ve been to where VRM was a serious topic on its own — an acronym thrown around by participants, in ways that made clear that they knew what it was. No explanation required. In other words, this wasn’t a VRM conference, but one where VRM was a central issue. The fact that the 140 people who packed the room included lots of developers, some of whom working right there on all kinds of stuff, including VRM. I’ll have much more to say about the conference later. Right now I’m waiting for…
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Advertising in Reverse
16 Nov 2009 | 3:24 amHere in the VRM development community we’ve been talking (and in some cases working) for several years on the Personal RFP. Technically an RFP is a “buyer-initiated procurement protocol” for businesses doing business with businesses: B2B as they say. With VRM the buyer is an individual. Hence, Personal RFP. Not a great label, but one that businesses understand. Now comes Scott Adams (Dilbert’s cartoonist), with Hunter Becomes the Prey. His compressed case: Shopping is broken… Google is nearly worthless when shopping for items that don’t involve technology. -
Intention Economy Traction
15 Nov 2009 | 6:41 amMy thinking out loud about what came to be called VRM began with The Intention Economy at Linux Journal, which I posted from a seat amidst the audience at the 2006 eTech in San Diego. The money ‘graphs: The Intention Economy grows around buyers, not sellers. It leverages the simple fact that buyers are the first source of money, and that they come ready-made. You don’t need advertising to make them. The Intention Economy is about markets, not marketing. You don’t need marketing to make Intention Markets. The Intention Economy is built around truly open markets, not a… -
Event horizons
21 Oct 2009 | 6:05 amPhoto galleries from the VRM West Coast Workshop and VRooM Boston 2009 are up. Tim Hwang has an excellent follow up (Geek Insurance! — go read it) to the Getting Personal With Data panel, which turned (as we had intended) into a round-table discussion involving everybody in the room (including Adriana Lukas, via live video from London) that lasted two hours. In discussions since VRooM, some of us have started thinking that a better approach to VRM events is to pick single topics (health care, governance, search, VRM+CRM, personal RFP, personal informatics, whatever) and have separate… -
Real Estate and VRM
10 Oct 2009 | 5:49 pmBill Wendel of Real Estate Cafe is one of the first people I met after becoming a fellow at the Berkman Center three years ago. What he’s been doing for a long time is right up the VRM alley: equipping users (whether buyers or sellers) with the means to become independent of controlling institutions and ways of doing business — and improving the marketplace while saving themselves money and hassle. Bill will be at VRooM Boston 2009 and has told me he would like to bring up real estate as a session topic. I encouraged Bill to do that, and I encourage others to jump in and talk…
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Doc Searls Weblog
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Catching up
21 Nov 2009 | 7:20 amI’m back in Boston after a great few days in Utah at the Kynetx Impact conference, where VRM and related stuff was brought up and discussed at length. It was an inaugural effort by Kynetx, which has what I think is a novel and profound take on the future of the Web. The only bad thing that happened on the trip was a crash on my laptop that trashed my email and some other files. One result is that much of the email sent to my Berkman address cyber.law.harvard.edu) since late Monday was lost. (Glad I back up almost constantly here at home. I do offsite as well, but lacked the… -
Swelling ground
16 Nov 2009 | 4:41 amTwo posts worth noting over at the ProjectVRM blog. The first is Intention Economy Traction, which riffs off David Gillespie’s illustrative and wise 263-slide narrative Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet). Both of us see The Intention Economy as pretty much inevitable. The second is Advertising In Reverse, which riffs off (Dilbert cartoonist) Scott Adams’ Hunter Becomes the Prey, a post in which he suggests “broadcast shopping,” by means which VRM folks have been calling by the dull name Personal RFP. In fact, I’m ready to… -
Let me re-repeat
12 Nov 2009 | 11:20 pm[Note: Jump to the bottom first, to see how this went... and may keep going.] So I called SuperShuttle to book a ride to the airport in Denver. The first thing the robot voice said was that I could also book this on the Web. So I thought, cool, I’ll do that. It’ll probably go faster, and I can copy the confirmation information directly onto my calendar. No luck there. I had to register, and the registration never went through. I’d fill out the form, click to make it go, and my browser window would say,… -
Happy Birthdays
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Colors of salt
12 Nov 2009 | 10:00 amBefore the salt in evaporating sea water turns white, it goes through stages of color that range from jade green to brick red, with variations of orange, yellow and other colors. From above the salt ponds around San Francisco Bay look like giant panes of stained glass. The shot above is from my latest set, shot on approach to SFO last week. Here’s another series.
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Internet Identity Workshop
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Workshop Day 3 in full swing
5 Nov 2009 | 11:02 amThis 9th Internet Identity Workshop is in full swing here on Day Three. You can see the plethora of tweets happening via twitter search – Twitter Search. We have also created a “Twitter list” of all attendees. We just crated a Slideshare account for IIW! Paul Trevithick sent us his slides from the opening day. We are happy to post any other slide shows from IIW too. Relationship Cards Iiw Nov 3 2009 View more presentations from Internet Identity Workshop. -
IIW9 – Details + Regular Registration Ends Soon
24 Oct 2009 | 7:13 pmRegular Registration ENDS NEXT WEDNESDAY – October 28th at Midnight. Prices go up $100 after that. The Internet Identity Workshop #9 Tuesday – Thursday, November 3-5 in Mountain View, CA Computer History Museum Please blog/tweet about the conference. The hash tag is #iiw , our twitter handle is @idworkshop Proposed Topics List is here. We all make the agenda together beginning at 1 on Tuesday and again on Wednesday and Thursday morning. If you want to know more about how to prepare for an unconference check out this piece called “unconferencing” by Kaliya Hamlin… -
Google on why they come to IIW
1 Sep 2009 | 2:09 pmWe ask each of our sponsors to share why they support IIW and what they hope to get out of it. Eric Sachs from Google wrote this: Google has a large set of engineers who attend IIW to discuss standards such as OAuth, OpenSocial, OpenID, SAML, Portable Contacts, as well as longer term trends around discovery, malware, phishing, and stronger authentication. Another major topic is the usability of these technologies. We hope that other companies and individuals working in these areas will register to attend IIW and help make it another great event. -
“Making it all Work” – core issue this IIW
31 Aug 2009 | 10:58 amGeorge Fletcher wrote a great post today reflecting on past IIW’s and looking ahead to this coming IIW. A lot has happened since the last IIW in May and I’m excited about the progress that has been made in the intervening months. Thinking back to past IIWs it’s great to see the progression of topics at IIW from geeky syntax and protocols to solutions and solving the problems from a user’s perspective. With the recent developments around “webfinger” and XRD, some of the “glue” pieces are coming together. I believe the next core issue to tackle in… -
IIW & Identity Community Bumps in the Road
23 Jun 2009 | 6:54 amWhen we first started meeting (the early “seedling” meetings of community) at other people’s conferences, there were Microsoft people, Liberty Alliance/SAML people, Shibboleth implementers, user-centric folks (OpenID, LID, sxip, i-names/xri), big idea folks (Doc Searls), etc. We met for a couple of hours at a time and knew there was common ground, but knew we needed more time to really understand each other: to have more of a shared language and develop enough strength in the relationships in the community to work together. We figured we needed to have more time to meet…
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Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog
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Identity Roadmap Presentation at PDC09
21 Nov 2009 | 10:45 amEarlier this week I presented the Identity Keynote at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in LA. The slide deck is here, and the video is here. After announcing the release of the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) as an Extension to .NET, I brought forward three architect/engineers to discuss how claims had helped them solve their development problems. I chose these particular guests because I wanted the developer audience to be able to benefit from the insights they had previously shared with me about the advantages - and challenges - of adopting the… -
New prototype could really help OpenID
3 Nov 2009 | 9:16 amI’ve sometimes been of two minds about OpenID. I’ve always seen it as alluring because of its simplicity and openness. It seemed perfect for simple web applications. But in my darker moments, I worried about some of the system’s usability and security issues. In particular, I was concerned about how easy it would be for an “evil site” to trick users into going to a web site that looks identical to their OpenID provider, convincing them to log in, and then stealing their credentials. If this were to happen, everything that is good about OpenID would turn… -
John Fontana on SAML Interoperability
30 Sep 2009 | 6:10 pmJohn Fontana writes about the SAML interoperability test in ComputerWorld, turning quite a bit of his attention to Microsoft: “Microsoft completed its first SAML interoperability test and the results are in: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 software received a passing grade. “Microsoft’s federated identity platform passed its first SAML 2.0 interoperability test with favorable marks, signaling the end to the vendor’s standoff against the protocol. “The eight-week, multivendor interoperability workout conducted by the Liberty Alliance and the Kantara… -
New test results for SAML Profile For eGovernment
30 Sep 2009 | 5:01 pmThe success of the Identity Metasystem depends heavily on having products available from multiple vendors that are proven to interoperate and ready to deploy. Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance have contributed significantly to this by helping test products against specific profiles. Kudos to everyone involved with the definition, organization and testing of the eGovernment SAML 2.0 profile v1.5. This represents a real step forward given the diversity of products involved. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 – Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance today announced that identity… -
Microsoft: minimum disclosure about minimum disclosure?
31 Aug 2009 | 5:11 pmBack from vacation and catching up on some blogs I found this piece by Felix Gaehtgens at Kuppinger Cole in Germany: A good year ago, Microsoft acquired an innovative company called U-Prove. That company, founded by visionary Stephan Brandt, had come up with a privacy-enabling technology that effectively allows users to safely transmit the minimum required information about themselves when required to – and for those receiving the information, a proof that the information is valid. For example: if a country issued a digital identification card, and a service provider would need to…
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Burton Group Identity Blog
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Hopes and concerns for identity
17 Nov 2009 | 8:16 amBlogger: Ian GlazerA friend in the industry recently asked me for my thoughts on OpenID, InfoCards, and the US federal government's work to consume non-government issued credentials. Letting the question rattle around in my head for a while, here's what I've got so far.My hope is that the overall ICAM initiative is successful—not because I have been eagerly waiting to interact with the federal government using some form of authenticated credential—but because we (citizens, enterprises and government) are at a pivotal moment in the history of the web. With the US government… -
Remembering Don Bowen
1 Nov 2009 | 5:50 pmDon Bowen, our former colleague and dear friend lost his battle with cancer yesterday. Our deepest sympathies go out to Don’s family during this difficult time.You will never meet a person that was as inspirational as Don. Whether in good times or bad, Don was always upbeat, energetic, and intense. During his illness, we also saw the strength of his faith, which was unwavering. Don has left a huge void in our lives and we will miss him for a long time. -
RSA, VeriSign, Cloud, OTPs, and Token Necklaces
8 Oct 2009 | 2:46 pmBlogger: Mark DiodatiToday, RSA and VeriSign announced a partnership where VeriSign can resell SecurID OTP tokens via its VIP managed authentication service. RSA can also resell the VIP authentication service.The press release implies that the relationship between RSA and VeriSign has been co-operative and amicable. Don’t be fooled. In early 2005, VeriSign was the primary driver for the OATH industry group, expressly created to take on RSA’s “cash cow”–its SecurID OTP business. Since that time, VeriSign aggressively pursued RSA’s SecurID customers and competes against RSA in the… -
Gartner Gets Privacy Dead Wrong
5 Oct 2009 | 12:07 pmBlogger: Bob Blakley Andrea DiMaio of Gartner recently posted a blog entry entitled "Forget Privacy: It Is Just An Illusion". DiMaio's lament rephrases Scott McNealy's famous quote ("You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.") McNealy was wrong then and DiMaio is wrong now; they're both dead wrong, and it's important. Here's DiMaio's key sentence: I have come to realize that, does not matter how careful we are, we are going to lose control of our privacy. But Andrea DiMaio never had control of his privacy. And nothing - including technology -… -
Symark Acquires BeyondTrust
15 Sep 2009 | 7:41 amBlogger: Mark DiodatiYou may have heard about Symark’s acquisition of BeyondTrust. Symark is best known for its UNIX security product- PowerBroker. BeyondTrust’s primary product is Privilege Manager. Privilege Manager provides authorization (specifically, privilege delegation) for the Windows platform. The product provides Windows Group Policy templates, which enable more granular privilege delegation.Symark has taken the BeyondTrust corporate name. It’s likely that BeyondTrust will rename Privilege Manager to PowerBroker for Windows. The Privilege Manager acquisition enables…
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Matt Flynn's Identity Management Blog
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The End of Internet Security
12 Nov 2009 | 3:36 pmRemember all that stuff I said about how we already have an end-to-end security solution that ensures that users are connected to the right web site and that there's no eavesdropping going on? Well, you can scratch all that. I knew there was a User Experience problem with SSL in that most people ignore that it's happening and therefore don't notice when it's not happening. I also knew that there are known potential attacks on SSL, but it seems there's a newly discussed renegotiation problem that makes the whole system seem suspect. This posting from RSA does a good job at providing an… -
Implication of Cisco MARS decision on SIEMs?
9 Nov 2009 | 12:23 pmNotice the question mark first. I'm interested in what you think this means. This isn't me trying to make any great claims.Cisco has acknowledged that it will stop adding support for additional devices on its MARS SIEM platform. While the plan is to continue providing updates for already-supported devices, it's difficult to argue that this isn't a strategic move toward completely dropping support for the product (in it's current form).I, of course, wanted to use a title like "The END of SIEM", but it's hard to make that leap given that one of the biggest SIEM players was ranked among… -
Two Factor Authentication is Worth Nothing?
22 Oct 2009 | 11:04 amApparently, Roger Dean, executive director of EEMA, recently declared two-factor authentication “not worth anything anymore.” According to the article, Dean's thinking is that man in the middle (MITM) attacks render strong authentication useless.Isn't that like claiming that firewalls are worthless because they don't prevent viruses from being installed on desktops? Strong authentication (which includes two-factor) was never intended to prevent MITM attacks. That problem was already (theoretically) solved with SSL.Perhaps Dean was reading Bruce Schneier's thoughts from back in 2005. I get… -
Cloud-Based Strong Authentication
9 Oct 2009 | 7:31 amYesterday, RSA and Verisign announced a partnership on cloud-based secure authentication for the consumer market. Pretty interesting stuff. The management of these organizations should be commended for looking past their competitive rivalry to identify a new business opportunity.The solution isn't new. Verisign has been offering its VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) authentication services for quite some time. I've had a token that I use with my PayPal account (and my OpenID) for the past couple of years (made in China by ActiveIdentity). But adoption of the offering has been less than… -
Provisioning to the Cloud
24 Sep 2009 | 5:27 pmI posted recently about identity in the cloud. Many identity vendors are doing interesting things to get their solutions 'in the cloud' or available 'as a service'. It's a lot of buzz, but there's also some actual cost savings and operational efficiencies at the bottom of these efforts.Today, Optimal IdM announced their cloud provisioning solution. Similar to what Identropy is doing with IC2, Optimal IdM's solution leverages existing provisioning solutions and acts as a connector to cloud applications. This use case of acting as a connector for remote, unknown, complex, or varied systems is a…
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Online Identity and Trust
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Blogging about Blogs - VIP Access for Mobile getting noticed
17 Nov 2009 | 9:33 amHan Dong, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, User Authentication Getting noticed is a hard thing. But when you do get recognized by adoring fans, it's like living the life of a beauty queen. And just look at who noticed us: CrackBerry.com and BlackBerry Cool So you ask, what's the news? We all know that VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Access for mobile has already been available for free on Blackberry® smartphones and downloadable from the BlackBerry App World and the VeriSign Identity Protection Mobile Center sites for some time now. What is new (or what you may have not noticed until now)… -
Meditations in an Analyst Summit
10 Nov 2009 | 4:01 pmHan Dong, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, User Authentication Greetings VIP Blog fans, In the way of introductions, I'm a new member of the Product Marketing organization at VeriSign. Seems like I'm already an old vet (time spent in the technology industry always seems to be measured in "dog years"). To give you some additional background on my IT curriculum vitae, 5 years of UNIX systems sales; 2 years of business development in Linux and Wireless; and 10 years in product marketing and management in Data Storage, Linux, and Networking. So as a long time marketer, I'm excited about the… -
RSA and VeriSign team up on Cloud-based, Two-Factor Authentication offering
8 Oct 2009 | 12:44 pmToday, we are pleased to announce that our customers' options have been broadened by our technical and sales partnership with RSA, another "Best-in-Class" Authentication Provider. The agreement will provide organizations with the mutual benefit of an expanded VIP Authentication Service through the availability of RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication technology for more choice in one-time password (OTP) authentication. Organizations in search of strong authentication solutions will benefit from being able to use VIP in combination with RSA SecurID hardware tokens and the convenience of a… -
Email Phishing Scheme Takeaway: More than Just the High & Flighty Need Stronger Security
6 Oct 2009 | 11:51 amCNET reported this morning that fraudsters phished thousands of email account passwords from multiple email providers. You don't have to be a government official, political figure or celebrity to be the target of the phishing and password-reset hack. This latest incident demonstrates that hackers have moved beyond just the high and flighty to target ordinary people. With each security breach, the shortcomings of weak passwords and the need for stronger authentication solutions become more and more evident. One-time passwords via two factor authentication provides a critical layer of security… -
The next Hollywood blockbuster?
15 Sep 2009 | 6:28 amIt's about time Hollywood produces a blockbuster about identity management. No, I'm kidding. No producer would never even read a script which includes the term "identity management" in its title (except, perhaps, "Harry Potter and the Identity Management Prince"). But there is a new Bruce Willis movie that deals with the issue of identities, among other things, and, well, that's a start. The movie is called "Surrogates" (watch trailer), and it tells the story of a futuristic world in which humans live in isolation while only communicating with their fellow man through robots that serve as…
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Racingsnake - the blog of Future Identity
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Notes from Malmø eGov2009
19 Nov 2009 | 8:26 amEarlier today I Twittered from the Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Malmø (#egov2009), expressing the hope that the press release would contain a bit more substance than the keynote announcement of the Ministerial Declaration. I am delighted to say, having got my hands on a copy of the full text, that it does. (PDF of the Declaration available online here.)First, though, here were the policy priorities announced by Mats Odell, Sweden's Minister for Local Government and Financial Markets:Use eGovernment services to empower citizens and businesses;Improve mobility in the single… -
EU to legislate on cookies
16 Nov 2009 | 7:31 amUK readers will probably remember one of those legal wrangles which make for such easy satire - the protracted argument over whether a Jaffa Cake is a cake or a biscuit (for VAT purposes, of course...)It looks as though the European Commission is heading towards a similar argument about cookies - though there may not be much discussion, as the Directive in question has apparently already been approved and merely awaits a few signatures and a rubber stamps or two.This is about amendments to 2002/58/EC; the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications. There are amendments to several… -
What the Home Secretary didn't say
4 Nov 2009 | 3:35 amAll of us, from time to time, have something which we want to avoid saying: "I'm sorry", "I was wrong", "Let's do it your way..." and so on.There are some tried and tested tactics for these situations. For instance:1 - Change the subject - "Oh look, there's a gecko in my cereal!";2 - Completely ignore the subject:Bored offspring: "Mum... mum... I need £10, Michael and I are going to the park to drink cider"Parent (from behind newspaper): "Mmm? That's nice, dear"... (no tenner is forthcoming, naturally).3 - Boldly assert exactly the opposite of what we don't want to say: "That new tie of… -
Shameless vote-mongering... moi?
4 Nov 2009 | 3:26 amWoo hoo! Have made it onto the shortlists for the Computer Weekly blogging awards again this year - presumably karmic compensation for going to the dentist this morning :^#Putting me up against the likes of Redmonk (James Governor) is probably a bit like shoving Nick Griffin into the ring with Mike Tyson: entertaining, sure; desirable, quite possibly - but only ever going to end one way. That said, honour is honour... so I have no hesitation whatsoever in grovelling and pleading for your vote. Here's the page in question.Thank you - and may the winner pay for the loser's orthodontic work. -
Lord Meddlesome?
28 Oct 2009 | 6:46 amSomewhat to my surprise, "three strikes and out" turns out not to be Lord Mandelson's latest contribution to the postal dispute.Considering all the state roles which encumber Lord Mandelson, Baron of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and of Hartlepool in the County of Durham (at the last count: First Secretary of State; Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills; President of the Board of Trade; Lord President of the Council), I suppose he can hardly be blamed for taking his "disconnection of downloaders" policy out of the oven while it was still only half baked.Still, it does…
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Talking Identity
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Executive IdM Session at OpenWorld: It’s All About Managing Risk
29 Oct 2009 | 11:13 amOne of the things I did at OpenWorld this year was attend an Executive IdM Session that brought together folks from the IdM team and some of our best customers to share information and talk about the future direction of identity management at Oracle. It was an interesting gathering with lots of good discussion that resulted in the session running well over its allotted time of 3 hours. As you can see from the picture below, it was a full room (what you don’t see is those of us who had to stand in the peanut gallery at the back of the room). The session had a nice flow to it, starting… -
Screencast of my OpenWorld Session on “IdM and the Cloud”
16 Oct 2009 | 12:20 pmOn Monday, I presented at Oracle OpenWorld on the topic of “Identity Management and the Cloud: Stormy Days Ahead?“. The title proved to be a little too prescient, because the weather in San Francisco was pretty nasty. And as you can imagine, the number of jokes made about this became all to predictable. Unfortunate coincidences on the title aside, the overall response to my session was quite positive, especially from folks whose opinions I really respect like Bob Blakley and Lori Rowland from the Burton Group. There was general agreement that widespread adoption of Cloud Computing… -
I’ll be talking at OpenWorld on IdM and the Cloud
1 Oct 2009 | 10:08 amAs I mentioned at the end of my last post, I’ll be speaking at Oracle OpenWorld on the topic “Identity Management and the Cloud: Stormy Days Ahead?“.This year, I got a slot that is at a far more reasonable hour. In fact, it is after the morning keynotes on Monday, and before the general sessions with our SVPs, so I feel a little bit like a warm up act. Here are the details: Session ID: S309525 Location: Moscone South Room 308 Date and Time: 10/12/2009 | 11:30am-12:30pm Below is the abstract for the session, in which I plan on expanding a great deal on the presentation I did… -
Identity Services & the Cloud [Podcast now available]
22 Sep 2009 | 2:19 pmMy webinar with KuppingerCole on the topic “Identity Services and the Cloud: What Every Enterprise Should Know” went pretty well yesterday. KuppingerCole has made the recording available for viewing, which you can download here (you have to register for a free account; trust me, its worth it). Or you can just check out the deck I presented. It started off with Martin Kuppinger talking about his views on cloud computing and identity management. I then spoke for about half an hour on how I think cloud computing will disrupt traditional enterprise identity management – but in a… -
Webinar – Identity Services and the Cloud
21 Sep 2009 | 7:38 amI’m doing a webinar with KuppingerCole on the topic of “Identity Services and the Cloud: What Every Enterprise Needs To Know” today at 11 am EST. Cloud security is widely viewed as the number one roadblock for enterprise adoption. At the same time, many are jumping into cloud computing without fully understanding what they are getting into. Without paying attention to the security and governance implications, any cost savings realized from moving to the cloud will actually evaporate when an enterprise either tries to retrofit their existing business policies and controls…
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What’s new at chi.mp!
12 Nov 2009 | 4:35 pmOur User Experience Designer, Cory Shaw, has made giant leaps in progress regarding the chi.mp owner experience! He has redesigned our chi.mp website and completely re-hauled owner site navigation. The dropdown menus on the .mp sites make navigating, creating content and publishing much easier to do. The View My Site links will show you how others see your content. The Manage My Site links allow you to easily find the places where you can create content and design your site. Cory also added some themes and looks forward to creating more and improving the themes interface. Other areas that… -
What’s new at chi.mp!
24 Sep 2009 | 6:00 pmCollect, connect and promote your digital life and your chi.mp site by using some of our new features! Promote your site with Twitter! Choose the Preview link on your site and you will find the Twitter logo. Add a personal video or images to your Bio statement. We upgraded the HTML editor which now allows you to use it in your About Me section. Help icons on your Dashboard make navigation to the main functions of your .mp site easier. A new Feedback widget provides easy access to our support desk should you want to ask a question or make a suggestion. Do you know how many people are visiting… -
Social Media & Social Change
23 Sep 2009 | 3:26 pmOne thing I love about chi.mp is its big heart. As an organization, chi.mp is generous and altruistic, seeking to improve the world we live in as much as your online experience. This week I had a chance to spend time with Jean Russell, also known online as NurtureGirl. I asked her some questions on social media and social change. Jean has facilitated social benefit conferences, cooperating with colleagues in fields ranging from technology & social media, to philanthropy, currencies, green/sustainable design, community development, international development, and human rights. Jean… -
Why Privacy Matters
17 Sep 2009 | 8:53 amThe teen who lost her job after calling her work “boring” on Facebook, or the woman fired for calling her boss “pervvy” in a status update did not suffer from a deficit in privacy. They were fired, rightly or wrongly, for poor judgment. Most people understand that their posted content exists in the public domain. Taking precautions on Facebook, and being careful what you disclose anywhere on the web is necessary. It’s what happens behind your back that irks the privacy advocates at chi.mp and elsewhere. Consumer Reports released a report earlier this… -
What’s All The Hubbub About?
14 Sep 2009 | 2:33 pmIt’s got a funny name, but PubSubHubbub, recently released to Google Code, may prove quite useful. PubSub is short for publish/subscribe, an asynchronous messaging paradigm. A publisher produces messages and subscribes consume those messages. PubSub is often used in distributed software systems as a way for pieces of the application to communicate with each other even though they reside on different computers. PubSubHubbub defines a way to publish and receive updates when Atom feeds change. As mentioned in my previous post, Atom feeds syndicate items from places like news sites, blogs…
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Google Blog Search: Vendor Relationship Management
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Doc Searls talk about "The Intention Economy" at Kynetx 2009
18 Nov 2009 | 8:48 amVRM (vendor relationship management) is one approach for us consumers, the reciprocal of and complimentary to CRM. manage our own health care data, eg. PHR (personal health records); "personal RFP" for my personal needs ... -
Advertising Age's David Klein on why marketers don't need media ...
16 Nov 2009 | 10:04 pmCases in point Burger King's controversial Goddess Lakshmi Ad; Piano Stairs by Volkswagen, respectively; Crowd-sourcing; Social Media and the feedback loop - click here if you are not clear about this; Vendor relationship management ... -
Intention Economy Traction
15 Nov 2009 | 6:41 amDoc Searls calls this consumer-driven leverage VRM or “vendor relationship management”. I've been a fan of the idea, but I think it falls down on the last word: management. Big companies are willing to devote thousands and millions of ... -
Don Draper Sees The Future. Do We?
10 Nov 2009 | 7:15 am... crystallized a decade ago by The Cluetrain Manifesto, now expressing itself in the great wave of written, audio and video material created by people everywhere and in nascent movements like Vendor Relationship Management. ... -
Disposable people? A question raised in Cannes.
9 Nov 2009 | 7:49 amConcentrate on building key skills in the retained organization in vendor relationship management, architecture, service management and the like. Make them the enterprise experts so they have the knowledge and confidence to connect what ...
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Turn-based Protocols Somewhat Safe
10 Nov 2009 | 1:08 pmWietse Venema has a nice analysis showing how an attack on Postfix doesn’t work. The core point here is that in turn-based protocols the common implementation is such that the server (or client – let’s call it an agent) will consume input from the OpenSSL layer character by character, in effect. This means that OpenSSL in turn will only consume a single SSL packet at a time, in order to provide input to the agent. The agent will then send output before reading further input. That output will be encrypted to the man-in-the-middle, because the OpenSSL layer has not yet… -
SSL MitM, Day 4
8 Nov 2009 | 9:12 amAre we having fun yet? First, thanks to Benson, the only person so far to have expressed any kind of appreciation for the work we volunteers do. Now to Q&A. Several people have pointed out that Adam Langley is unhappy that I (and others) have maligned TLS. Apparently …it’s not a flaw in TLS. The TLS security properties are exactly what was intended. Isn’t that wonderful? Notice how much more secure the world became now we’ve got that cleared up. Also notice how this “intended” property was so carefully explained, and how everyone involved immediately… -
SSL MitM Attack, Part 2
6 Nov 2009 | 3:46 amA lot can happen in a day. Yesterday the news broke that SSL was compromised. We immediately (OK, it took about 10 hours) released a new version of OpenSSL, 0.9.8l, which mitigates the problem by completely disabling renegotiation. Obviously this will break some sites, and so is not a full fix, so the next step is to implement Eric Rescorla’s TLS extension. However, before I get on with that, it seems I have a few questions to answer. Firstly, I must thank the anonymous poster who said “OpenSSL is written by monkeys”. But dude, you should’ve included the link. -
Another Protocol Bites The Dust
4 Nov 2009 | 11:03 pmFor the last 6 weeks or so, a bunch of us have been working on a really serious issue in SSL. In short, a man-in-the-middle can use SSL renegotiation to inject an arbitrary prefix into any SSL session, undetected by either end. To make matters even worse, through a piece of (in retrospect) incredibly bad design, HTTP servers will, under some circumstances, replay that arbitrary prefix in a new authentication context. For example, this is what happens if you configure Apache to require client certificates for one directory but not another. Once it emerges that your request is for a protected… -
Just How Bad are IDNs?
23 Oct 2009 | 9:11 amIDN, in case you didn’t know, stands for “Internationalised Domain Name”. Or something like that. In short it is the highly dubious idea that you should be able to define domain names in any script you like. I thought I’d written before about how this leads to homograph attacks, but I can’t find the post. Perhaps it was so long ago it was before I was blogging? Anyway, this problem didn’t go away and I was recently pointed at this rather fine slide deck explaining all the problems with IDNs. Well worth a read if you want to see why IDN should be eradicated.
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confused of calcutta
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Numbers of Mass Distraction
29 Oct 2009 | 5:16 pm2009 Is Record Year For UK Singles Sales Innovation boosts record label income as licensing and rights deals generate £195m in 2008 New business models boost income for British record labels: licensing and multiple rights deals net £122m in 2007 New BPI Stats show strength of digital music Just some of the headlines from a group of people not known for their progressive thinking when it comes to music and downloads and filesharing. But let’s not look at the headlines. Let’s look at the facts: 2009 has already become the biggest ever year for UK singles with more than 117m sold… -
Musing about downloads in the UK
28 Oct 2009 | 4:22 pmSome of you may have noticed that I like my cricket. And one of the things I like about cricket is the cricket story; the history of cricket is festooned with anecdotes and tales and apocrypha, filling a very large number of books. As with most other stories, over time, these stories gain a life of their own, with a series of embellishments and accoutrements; this is particularly noticeable when the story is about larger-than-life characters, something that cricket’s cup runneth over with. One such story involves one of the largest of the larger-than-life characters: Freddie Trueman. -
Musing about culture and customers and choice: the eBaying of “content”
11 Oct 2009 | 4:12 pmI have the privilege of spending time with many startups, in a variety of guises: as incubator, as advisor, as investor, as chairman, as well-wisher, friend and supporter. The startups differ widely and wildly: they range in size from a handful of people to hundreds; they have annual burn rates in the thousands and in the millions; they have different strategies and different ways of executing them; the motives that drive them are different, the things that keep them awake at night differ as well. They make different types of products and services, for different markets, with different… -
Musing gently about choice in the enterprise
1 Oct 2009 | 2:59 pm[Photo credits: guitars: fotobicchio and shoes: Orin Zebest] For some time now, phrases like “the customer’s in control” have been floating around the marketplace, yet “enterprise people” haven’t taken a blind bit of notice. You can’t expect them to. Many of them can’t understand what choice means in the context of the services they receive. And what they don’t experience they can’t express to others. But it’s all changing, and changing fast. As consumerisation drives innovation from the consumer to the enterprise, and as the… -
Swiftly going West: Digital parody comes of age
17 Sep 2009 | 3:04 pmI know my readership is “old” but most of you are not as old as I am. So that means you’re more than likely to have heard about the Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident a few days ago. I heard about it, found it at least mildly distasteful, despite Kanye’s apology; I was therefore glad to hear about Beyonce’s touch of class later. But that’s not the point of this post. Why would I write about two people I don’t listen to, on a programme I don’t watch, and whose lives I have no interest in? Simple. I write because of this video: Chris Messina tweeted…
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Debs' Blog - technology changes humans don't
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Cocktails, cupcakes and food for thought..
2 Nov 2009 | 5:36 pmA quick note to say thanks to Brady, Bre et al - for another great Ignite event. Cupcakes were gorgeous and the talks were a blast. I even got to express four years of "alley vs valley" in a compact 5 minutes! Thanks to Sean, Sam, Jeff, Howard and Sarah for the inspiration! NYC Tidbit: The classy theatre venue for last nite was a favorite haunt well over 10 years - it was a second run moving theatre [pre netflix, itunes]. You youngins may ask what the heck is a second run movie theatre? Back in the day movies that had been out for a few months would disappear into… -
Slides: What is The Future of Business?
11 Sep 2009 | 12:29 pmThe Future Of Business by Altimeter GroupView more presentations from Charlene Li. Thanks to everyone who took the time to join our call yesterday to learn about our approach to the Future of Business [yes, it's a bit grandiose but we aim high!]. Charlene, Jeremiah, Ray & I all have a strongly held passionate belief that the future of business involves a 360 degree integrated approach involving lots of shifts and changes. The real interesting stuff happens when we view new tools and technologies not in isolation but in the context of the behavioral, sociological, cultural, … -
Seven years of reflection
11 Sep 2009 | 12:24 pmOnce again, as I have for the past four years, I woke up incredibly early, my subconscious prepped for a quiet solitude of sunrise reflection. I exchanged my annual phone and text messages with my fellow volunteers as I have every year on September 11th and then went about my day. Eight years is an emotional eternity and yet a blip in historical perspective - the world moves on and the event is a now a political pawn. The experiences of those who lived through the day are shared privately vs publicly and perhaps that is as it should be. I am always saddened by America's lack of history and… -
Deb Update: Joining Altimeter Group!
27 Aug 2009 | 9:28 amThis morning I begin a new chapter in my career - I have joined the Altimeter Group as a Partner running the Innovation Practice. I am super excited to join forces with Charlene, Ray and Jeremiah - three extremely accomplished individuals! In the short time in which we have been working together I have already seen how our experience and knowledge provide a 360 view of the emerging technology landscape and how it impacts business and society. My work life began in the early 90's when the Internet/Web first made it's presence known both culturally and economically. I was smitten… -
A fun new project for 2009
21 Aug 2009 | 3:19 pmOne of the joys of being independent is I get to work with a variety of people on a variety of cool projects. So at the same time I get to work with a company the size and scale of P&G on loads of innovative stuff, I also get to work with start-ups like My6sense on Digital Intuition and a group of brilliant animators on a way cool new animated series called The Gloomers. When development on The Gloomers began - the economy was in a much different place - now that we are all belt tightening the shows may take on an entirely new these...stay tuned! In tough economic times - reminding…
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Dynamist Blog
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Andy Stern Should Back This Cause
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10 Years of FIRE
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Incentives for Marrow Donors
28 Oct 2009 | 11:12 pmThe Institute for Justice has filed suit to overturn the federal prohibition on financially compensating bone-marrow donors. Megan McArdle has a good post on the subject. I do take issue with the idea that bone marrow should be exempt from... -
New Books in the Mail
14 Oct 2009 | 2:47 pmInspired by the FTC, and with apologies to InstaPundit Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600 by Evelyn Welch (read a review here) Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays by Joel Waldfogel (read chapter one... -
Don't Let U.S. Capitalism Go the Italian Route
12 Oct 2009 | 9:37 amBlunt-spoken, deeply informed, and relentless, Luigi Zingales has been one of the great public-intellectual heroes of the financial crisis. (See this September WSJ op-ed with John Cochrane for a sample of his work.) In this meaty and readable essay for...
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Pushing String
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A real horrorshow
19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pmIt’s frustrating to see “news” stories about diet and metabolism that get something right, sort of, but for really harmful reasons. Yes, popcorn is deliciously seductive. Yes, it’s bad for you to eat a medium-sized popcorn/soda combo (“Movie Popcorn Has Shocking Calories, Fat”). But there’s no actual evidence to suggest that the “12 pats of butter” in it is the reason. From (The Great) Gary Taubes’s GCBC: In the mid-1970s …, [Ethan] Sims and [Elliot] Danforth [of the University of Vermont] believed that obesity was most likely… -
Both a data borrower and a data lender be
19 Oct 2009 | 7:30 amChristian Scholz and his Data Portability Project pals have roped me into their Data Without Borders podcasts. On Friday, Christian and Trent Adams and Steve Greenberg and I had some fun relaunching the series by talking about the DPP Terms of Service and End-User License Agreement (TOS/EULA) task force. Steve was passionate in describing this work. I think he’s right when he says that you first have to ensure that people are aware of a site’s terms of service; disclosing them in a form human beings can grok (à la Creative Commons or the nutrition label approach I wrote about… -
A Venn of identity in web services, now with OAuth
2 Oct 2009 | 11:00 amIn the past week, several people approached me with the idea of incorporating OAuth somehow into the Venn view of identity. Feels like more of that “destiny” Ashish invoked a couple of weeks ago — especially since I had already developed just such a Venn for my XML Summer School talk last week. My very first Venn of Identity blog post also included a second diagram, covering something like “identity in web services”. It was little-noticed, I think, because the deployment of the more esoteric pieces of WS-* and ID-WSF was pretty low. I’ve been itching to add… -
The Zen of Venn
10 Sep 2009 | 9:16 pm“You will never be done with the Venn. That’s your destiny. Accept it.” So said my colleague Ashish recently, as I agonized over some tweaks to the Venn of Identity diagram. The editing started out as a quick fix to the figure that appears in the IEEE Security and Privacy article of the same name; the diagram text was exactly what Drummond and I had specified — but the graphic emerged from the publication process visually “broken”, with no intersection lines. But of course technologies and understandings and use cases evolve, and it began to seem like a… -
Exercise: it’s torture, I tell you
9 Sep 2009 | 6:20 pmSometimes you have wonder about “conventional wisdom” (and what makes it different from “actual wisdom”). Until about 40 or so years ago, it was conventional wisdom that you shouldn’t exercise to lose fat because exercise tended to make you more hungry. Then the CW changed to “you must become a hamster on a wheel” — without any evidence to back it up. Now it appears that we may be undergoing a much-needed correction. I only recently discovered (h/t Pat) a great New York Magazine article from 2007 recounting the state of science in this area,…
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Media Influencer
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links for 2009-11-21
21 Nov 2009 | 12:02 pmBreaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released « Watts Up With That? (tags: hacker HadleyCRU climate science history) Alleged CRU Emails – Searchable (tags: HadleyCRU emails climate search) Open Letter On Climate Legislation « the Air Vent the original 'bomb' dropped by the FOI hacker to the climate research 'community'. (tags: climate hacker scandal HadleyCRU history) Bob Ward: This climate email-hacking episode is generating more heat than light | Environment | guardian.co.uk one of the most tendencious articles I have seen… -
links for 2009-11-19
19 Nov 2009 | 12:04 pmFT.com / In depth – Berlin Wall: an interactive timeline (tags: berlin_wall history communism ft) Believe in UFOs? [VIDEO] this is good! (tags: science astronomy rant funny UFO) -
links for 2009-11-18
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links for 2009-11-16
16 Nov 2009 | 12:02 pmFT.com | Tech Blog | Twitter and LinkedIn team up. Just like peanut butter and chocolate? a deal between two silos. forgive me if I don't swoon. A financial deal no less. Worth reporting it seems. What's the world coming to… (tags: twitter linkedin deal silos) -
links for 2009-11-15
15 Nov 2009 | 12:02 pmiDroid Wars on Gillmor Gang (tags: gillmor android kevinmarks techcrunch)
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Scripting News
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An open letter to Google
20 Nov 2009 | 1:01 pmI had an interesting but somewhat disturbing exchange with a Google guy on Twitter today. It reveals a bunch of disconnects, that I'm going to try, in this post, to address. 1. Please take these statements at face value. 2. I am just a person, I am not in competition with Google. 3. I am a Google user. My primary email account is on GMail. I just bought a Droid, and started a Droid blog to help other people get started. I like it primarily because it connects so well with Google services. 4. I am a former Google shareholder. I made a shitload of money from my Google investment. Thank you. 5. -
Where is RSS?
20 Nov 2009 | 11:33 amI watched the morning session of TechCrunch's second realtime conference, including the half hour interview with Dick Costolo, the COO of Twitter. Of course Mike Arrington asked him the "Is RSS Dead?" question, and thankfully Costolo didn't want to go there. It would be ingracious of him, of course, because he made $100 million with RSS. He said RSS had been "pushed down" the stack, and it was now a protocol like SMTP or HTTP. In a way I agree with him, but only so far. RSS was never anything more than a protocol like SMTP or HTTP. So it hasn't gone anywhere. It's still exactly where it has… -
Coolest software of the decade?
19 Nov 2009 | 12:48 pmEveryone's asking questions about the decade that's coming to a close, I'd like to ask what's the coolest software you used this decade? For me, it might be Dropbox. I keep thinking of new uses for it. For a guy with a huge number of computers (I don't even want to count them), it's not only a lifesaver but an idea factory. I've already built utilities on it. The basis: polling a folder is incredibly low-cost. You can do a lot of it without impacting the performance of your machine. That was true in 2002 when we made Radio do upstreaming. It's even more true today. Because Dropbox wires… -
The new Retweet is cool!
19 Nov 2009 | 10:35 amI sort of understand why people don't like the new retweet, but I like it very much, and probably for many of the reasons they don't like it. If you follow me on Twitter you know that a lot of my tweets are links to stories on the web. I would probably forward other people's links more if there were a way to give them credit for the link without adding all that overhead to the text. I find that once you add a bit of text to a tweet you dilute its meaning. Do it two or three times and its a confusing mess. I don't know who said what. Worse, often the meaning of messages are reversed when… -
Journalists as ski instructors
19 Nov 2009 | 10:11 amOne of the cool things about riding on a train is that you meet a lot of people. There are Europeans who are visiting the US and have the train riding habit from home. There are people who remember the golden age of trains and can tell you how this or that is a shadow of its former self. And there are people who are afraid of plane travel and prefer trains to buses. There are also people like me who had a cross-country train trip on their bucket list, and found that the fantasy was better than the reality. (Partially because this trip follows the route of I-80 and I-70, which for me is…
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Simonsays
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EXCLUSIVE: Dick Fedorcio, Met Police blogger engagement and my part in it...
11 Nov 2009 | 3:56 pmfigures likely to show rise..... Queen at First World War memorial..... Childcare tax breaks revolt grows..... DNA profile database plans unveiled..... Washington sniper put to death..... 46% think war is increasing threat..... Anti-monarchy demo on Charles visit..... Pilot charged after airport arrest..... Three more drug advisers quit..... Social worker backlash after Baby P..... I published a blog post earlier this year in which I questioned the Metropolitan Police's approach to social media and criticised what I perceived to be the… -
General Election online campaigning hots up with Lord Ashcroft's purchase of ConservativeHome
24 Sep 2009 | 2:37 amLabour's Mark Hanson makes two astute observations about this week's purchase of ConservativeHome by Tory non-dom and arch-funder, Lord Ashcroftover at his Independent (newspaper) blog .Firstly, he observes that while the big debate has been about the purchase and subsequent predicted editorial direction of ConservativeHome, Ashcroft has also bought access to the remains of online political TV channel, 18 Doughty Street. Mark suggests that will give Ashcroft and the Conservatives a fully-fledged capacity to develop and deliver high-quality multi-media content in the run-up to and during and… -
Three quarters of people would switch to alternative free news if Rupert Murdoch has his way
22 Sep 2009 | 1:46 pmSince Murdoch made his announcement about pushing for pay-walled content on his titles there's been a lot of discussion about how the future of online content is 'paid for'.Well, frankly I don't buy it (literally) and thankfully PaidContent:UK has come up with some research that proves the wider public also don't want to buy it either.According to a write up in the Guardian, PaidContent's research shows thatIf ... favourite news site begins charging for access to content, three quarters of people would simply switch to an alternative free news source... Just 5% of those readers would choose… -
Test
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Online monitoring and political behaviour: survey of UK political parties
15 Sep 2009 | 4:55 pmThe role of online monitoring in influencing political behaviour: an exploratory survey of UK political partiesView more presentations from Simon Collister. I popped along to give the keynote speech at a symposium on measuring online political behaviour yesterday organised by Royal Holloway University’s New Political Communications Unit. In keeping with true keynote style I only managed to get along to the afternoon sessions at the event, but I still managed to catch a couple of interesting presentations: one from Rob Pearson at the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office examining the…
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The Social Customer Manifesto
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Fly The Evil Skies
20 Nov 2009 | 8:33 amOn the subject of frequent flier miles, Gary says:"Miles are evil. They create apathy on the end of the service provider." The he asks the real question:"Have decades of frequent flyer programs instilled institutional apathy on the part of customer facing employees? Perhaps we are talking about apathetic DNA across entire corporations or even within the entire airline industry. If one believes customers won't leave even when treated poorly, where is the incentive to 'step it up?'" Back in the late 1990's, I was flying weekly between Chicago and Palo Alto. 1,846 miles out on Monday, 1,846… -
Kudos to Seth
11 Nov 2009 | 1:09 pmKudos to Seth Godin on fixing the most very broken thing about his 2005 book "All Marketers are Liars." He convinced the publisher to change the cover on future editions, and the book is now called "All Marketers Tell Stories."Seth says:"So, go tell a story. If it doesn’t resonate, tell a different one. When you find a story that works, live that story, make it true, authentic and subject to scrutiny. All marketers are storytellers, only the losers are liars."I was fairly harsh when I read the book in 2005, and while some of those criticisms still stand,… -
Twitter's "Trending Topics" Bridge Neighborhoods in Social Networks
11 Nov 2009 | 11:12 amHad a blast chatting with danah boyd this morning on this week's SupernovaHub Network Age Briefing (disclosure: Supernova is a client). The link above is to a rebroadcast of the call, which ran about an hour and covered "Class and Connection in the Network Age." We also had some great conversation with @nwjerseyliz and @evanwolf the others who joined live in the conversation. One of the big "a ha" moments in talking to danah was the fact that, as has been noted in many other places, we typically hang out (more-or-less) with "people like us"… -
The Laws of VRM
5 Nov 2009 | 3:21 pmIn conjunction with this week's Internet Identity Workshop, a number of folks including @dsearls @deanland @joeandrieu @judico @juliangay @dariusdunlap and others have been thinking a lot about ProjectVRM. As part of the conversations, an activity this group was doing was trying to distill down to its essence what "makes" something "VRM" (or VRM-like, at least). We came up with a couple of core concepts, the first of which is that in a system that is VRM-ish, the following holds true: "VRM Law #1: The individual is the point of integration." In other words, instead of myriad… -
Thought of the Day: Single-Sign Off
5 Nov 2009 | 12:51 pmLots of folks have looked at integrating online identities, and there are various types of "single sign-on" (cite) systems around. Thought experiment for today: what would single sign-off look like? In other words, what would happen if an individual had the ability to conceptually "unplug" from the Network?
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The Relationship Economy......
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The Worst Social Media Mistake
22 Nov 2009 | 3:00 amThis entry is part 3 of 3 in the series social media directionsNo one really likes making mistakes. We all make mistakes and most people learn from their mistakes. The value of social media is you can learn from other people’s mistakes. You can also simply copy current practices and make the same mistakes others are making. In the old days mistakes could be fairly contained to a few people unless of course your mistake hit the headline news. Today mistakes, whether personal and corporate, are transparent for the world to see. Social technology can not only propagate mistakes to a large… -
The Debate: Free Vs. Paid Content
21 Nov 2009 | 3:00 amThis entry is part 17 of 16 in the series Conversational CurrencyThe internet and social technology has turned the publishing industry upside down and inside out. We’ve seen 24 of the top 25 newspapers go out of business. Magazine subscription rates are down and the leaders within the industry are struggling to find a strategy to stay alive. The Wall Street Journal is forging a war against the internet. Rupert Murdock wants to block its content from Google and has taken a stand with its readers by charging a subscription for the paper. No more free in the Murdock world. Other… -
Are CMO’s Clueless?
20 Nov 2009 | 7:00 amThis entry is part 2 of 3 in the series social media directionsSome of the articles I read make be wonder if the market and marketers are paying attention to their market. Then again since I spend everyday watching markets and the influence of social media on these markets maybe I am one of the few who actually sees what is happening. According to Chief Marketing Officer . com: CMOs Need Greater Engagement Internally And Through Social Nets For Brands To Thrive: More than four out of five (84 percent) chief marketing officers (CMOs) allocate less than ten percent of their budgets to… -
The Power Of Social Distribution
20 Nov 2009 | 3:00 amThis entry is part 1 of 3 in the series social media directionsIn the old days (and they are still around) media was “pushed” upon the masses and shaped our attitudes, beliefs and perspectives on everything. Today our attitudes, beliefs and perspectives on everything are being shaped by a different kind of media. This new media is created by we the people and shared with those we have an affinity with. Unlike the previous power curve of old media new media creates a different, more expansive, powerful and influential curve. The curve has to do with “virtual… -
How Does The Market Move?
19 Nov 2009 | 3:00 amMarkets move when new information enters a market. Today markets are overloaded with new information flooding our minds and vying for our attention. New and old media grabs our attention when it provides relevant and relative information that appeals to our affinities. Media surrounds us 24/7 both online and off-line. Media moves markets because it influences behavior, thinking, conversations and actions. Markets are segmented into four categories regardless of product or service. Each group is influenced by information flooding each segment of the market. Each segment reacts to…
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VRM Hub
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November evening meeting
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Notes from October evening
16 Nov 2009 | 3:18 amAt last month’s VRM conference, Gabe Chomic spoke on security in the context of adoption of new innovations, particularly VRM. People coming to our evenings are from varied backgrounds and industries, so instead of a presentation assuming prior knowledge, Gabe did a roundtable discussion, involving all in the room. The original idea was to cover identity concepts – his other passion – too, but given everyone joining in, it became apparent there won’t be enough time at this meeting. Something to save for a future meeting as I certainly hope Gabe will agree to do another talk… -
October evening meeting
22 Oct 2009 | 8:13 amThe sign-up page for this month’s evening is open. We are meeting on Thursday 29 October, 6-9pm, back at GfK NOP. More details on the eventbrite page. -
MINT-y VRM Hub
25 Sep 2009 | 4:27 pmLast night’s VRM Hub was full house, with two visitors from out of town – the VRM Godfather Doc Searls and Mathias Baert from Belgium – half a dozen new people and great conversations in a pub afterwards. At the main session we talked about a new project called MINT: MINT initiative was set up to ‘liberate customer data’* from company systems and organisational silos. We assist organisations that directly interact with customers or users, and retain data about transactions, to make purchase history data available to download at no charge, in open formats and fit for… -
September evening meeting
9 Sep 2009 | 2:14 pmThe sign-up page for this month’s evening is open. We are meeting on Thursday 24 September, 6-9pm, back at GfK NOP. More details on the eventbrite page.
