Higgins 1.0 Released
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the 1.0 release of Higgins, the first real software framework that enables developers to integrate user-centric identity technologies and protocols into their...
View ArticleThe Latest Wave of IdM Acquisitions
It’s been a while since I blogged. Not that there aren’t a wealth of topics to talk about, but because work here at Oracle has been keeping me so busy. The time right around a major product release...
View ArticleInformation Cards gets its own Foundation
One of the big announcements at Catalyst that I twittered about was the formation of the Information Card Foundation (take that, OpenID). The purpose of the non-profit foundation is to promote the use...
View ArticleDoes ‘User-Centric’ also mean ‘User-Burdened’?
Dave Kearns recently took on the topic of how user-centric and enterprise-centric identity could possibly co-exist in his articles for the Network World Identity Management Newsletter. In his first...
View ArticleThe changing face of Password Management
A college student was arraigned on Wednesday for allegedly breaking into Gov. Sarah Palin’s private e-mail account last month. Political leanings aside, I read the news article with great interest for...
View ArticleThe new Identity Equation
A few days ago, I tweeted about this CNET article that talks about the plans that Twitter has to expand their search service into what could be one of the most powerful real-time search engines...
View ArticleIdM and the Cloud: A Chance To Do Things Right
Over 2 months ago (wow, time really flies when you are trying to keep up with the Twitter firehose), I wrote an introductory post to a topic that I am beginning to examine in some detail – the impact...
View ArticleA Twittorial on Trust Frameworks
(Updated to reflect provisional status of OIX approval per this – thanks to Brett for telling me) I just got back home from the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, where the topic of Trust was...
View ArticleThe ‘x’ in xAuth stands for…
…xhausting! OK! So being at a conference (Cloud Computing Expo in NYC, where Oracle is making big waves with announcements in the PaaS space) where I had no wi-fi or power meant that I was trying to...
View ArticleCardspace and the KISS Principle
(My original title for this post was “Cardspace, We Hardly Knew Thee”, but Dave Kearns stole that by a nose). RSA is not the best conference for identity related news and topics, but there were more...
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