Howard Stern‘s contract with Sirius XM is up at the end of the year, and it was good to hear on the show this week that the full retirement option is off the table. That was one of five options Howard said he was considering. Says the Stern site (on a wrapup of Thursday’s show), Howard
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Ten years ago this month, I gave the opening keynote for the International Retail Conference of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Instutut, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The venue was the amazing Culture and Congress Centre, which had opened just two years earlier. Designed by the architect Jean Nouvel and esteemed for its acoustics, it was the most flattering
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It’s been a week since VRM+CRM 2010, and there have been many conversations on private channels (emails, face-to-face, phone-to-phone, face-to-faces), all “processing,” as they say. Meanwhile we also have some very interesting postings to chew on. (Note: This is cross-posted here.) First, Bill Wendell‘s RealEstateCafe wiki has a nice outline of sessions at the workshop. Better than
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Yesterday was the OAuthalypse--the day when Twitter stopped accepting HTTP Basic authorizations on theis API. I had a few apps break--like almost everything I've done with Twitter. To get them back working I'll have to spend some time on each movin...
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This is what I’m showing tomorrow to Chancellor Fingerhut. This is what I did on my summer vacation.
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As editor of the OASIS IMI TC, I wanted to bring to your attention that the committee specifications for the SAML V1.1 Information Card Token Profile Version 1.0 and the SAML V2.0 Information Card Token Profile Version 1.0 specifications have been posted by OASIS. These specs are standard profiles for SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0
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My thanks to Phillie Casablanca for the delightfully evocative notice above. I was born a foreigner. While my hereditary roots were from southern India, I was born and brought up in Calcutta, as was my father before me. And for the first 23 years of my life, I knew no other city. Never lived anywhere
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I’ve been reading the various recent articles about women in tech bubbling around the interwebs with mixed feelings.  I’ve seen a lot of these debates go by, and although I have strong opinions (I know, you’re surprised, right?), I usually choose not to comment here. There is only one thing that I find myself wanting
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I'm happy when my teenage son is on Facebook talking to all of his friends from the warmth and comfort of his bedroom rather than hanging out with them in a freezing and desolate town centre where he...
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Chowder isn’t exactly rocket science, but this went pretty well, so documenting it here… I actually made this almost entirely from frozen ingredients and it was just fine. Fresh might be better. Finely chopped leek Smoked bacon, sliced (I used some lardons I had in the freezer) Cubed potatoes Chicken stock (maybe fish stock would be better, I didn’t have
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In the past Kynetx has held two Kynetx Impact conferences, one last fall and one last spring. Kynetx Impact exceeded my expectations both times with lots of people and energy. But holding a conference of that size is, frankly, a lot of work for a sma...
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The East Coast edition of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) will happen next week on Thursday and Friday (Sept 9-10) at the Josaphine Butler Parks Center in Washington DC. The theme for this edition of IIW is Open Identity for Open Government. Yo...
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I remember discussing this with someone -- but due to my advancing years, I can't remember who -- a few months ago after reading some of the reputation-realted discussion on the Burton Group blog. The discussion about Personas Need Reputation, Too! was about what a protocol to support reputation might look like. The idea was to enable multiple parties to engage and have the outcome of the engagement (in the form of claims about relationships) communicated.
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Both of these stories are true. And they're very unnerving. There is also a common thread.
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First, three posts by JP Rangaswami: Does the Web make experts dumb? Does the Web make esperts dumb, Part 2: who is the teacher? Does the Web make experts dumb, Part 3: the issues His bottom line in the last of those: “… people are saying the web dumbs us down. This is wrong. The
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Getting lots of things done. We have a killer book from our Futuristic Young Ideas STEM student summer internship program. The Civic Commons is rocking - running towards an end of Sept ship date. There are a lot of really basic person->many commun...
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