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Together Alone

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Security > 140 Conversation with Craig Burton

LikeI had a conversation with Gunnar Peterson recently. Here is the transcript of the exchange. It is short but worth looking at. Today’s Security > 140 Conversation is with Craig Burton is a Distinguished...

Celebrating Judith: July 16, 1945—January 10, 2012

LikeThanks so much to Doc Searls and Jamie Lewis for remembering Judith so clearly and eloquently. She was the best and I miss her.

More on the Open API Revolution

LikeAs I said in an earlier post, the folks as Programmableweb.com announced the that the number of open APIs they track reached an unbelievable number—4000—in record time. The published this graph showing the hockey stick growth...

The API Computing Magic Troika and the API Economy

LikeIntro Provocative quotes: Baking your core competency into an open API is a economic imperative. source: Craig Burton If you are not engaged in generating or enabling open API’s for...

Singly—Giving you back control of you data/life

LikeJeremy Miller is busy working on his new project that is a personal data store and so much more. Take a look at this video of his talk last week at Web 2.0 Summit....

The Term VRM is Immutable

LikeI subscribe to the ProjectVRM mailing list. Every now and then, a raging debate comes up as to why the term VRM needs to be changed. The arguments are passionate, eloquent and irrelevant. The term VRM is immutable....

Burtonian Ubiquity Timeline

LikeGaining ubiquity with technology is hard. The Yin and Yang of the whole thing makes it that way. If you force it, it will fail. If you back off and leave it, it fails. You can tease, cajole, blarney, wheedle,  sweet-talk, seduce,...

Steve Jobs: cause to reflect

LikeI am the same age as Steve Jobs. So when Phil Windley sent me the link to the 1985 Playboy Magazine interview of Steve Jobs (just before he was forced to leave Apple) I had to laugh at...

Man, Woman, Geek();

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Stop Using the “C” and the “E” Word

LikeWhile attending the Cloud Identity Summit last week in Keystone Co. I noticed a usage trend that needs addressing. Almost without exception, the discussions around identity and identity technology used two categories...

Calf-Cow Pump

Like Just dabbling on the moleskin while I write about infrastructure. Doc Searls and I have been talking about the Calf-Cow model of the web. I wanted to draw a mondo calf cow pump that is hard to stop. Related articles How to Divine...