Standard Information Sharing Labels
Some years ago, based on an idea that came up on a train ride to the airport from OSCON, Kaliya Hamlin, Aldo Castaneda and I put together a
The paper for the W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication was accepted for presenta...
Rich Sharing and Personal Channels
The Social Web has shown us the power of connecting. Facebook has friends, LinkedIn has connections, and Twitter has followers. These channels allow their owners to communicate with others, although their capabilities vary greatly. But ...
Unlocking Data Exchange: The Long Tail of Data
Much has been made of data lately. And with good reason. Data and the ability to exchange and process it are at the heart of modern society's productivity and prosperity. Data and algorithms are the engines that drive the economy in the...
PDS Interoperability
Last week in London, I attended a workshop Iain Henderson put on at Innovation Warehouse on Personal Data Store interoperability. He used the following illustrative use cases to talk about what interoperability means for a personal data...
Starting a High Tech Business: Being Startup Compliant
I'm the founder and CTO of Kynetx. This series of articles relates my discoveries and feelings about starting a high-tech business. This is the thirty-second installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better ...
The Multiple Passport Problem: Declaring Digital Sovereignty
This morning Patrick Towell mentioned the multiple passport problem. I'd never heard that phrase before, so I asked him to explain. The multiple passport problem describes the world where we have multiple accounts, identifiers, and cop...
From Personal Computers to Personal Clouds
I've created a white paper from the series of blog posts I did over the past few weeks. If you've read those, this will all be familiar. The white paper is a convenient way to get the whole thing in a single package or share the ideas with someo...
The Importance of Protocols
I'm in Munich at European Identity Conference. There's a big grocery store right next door (yes, that's it in the picture to the right). During the break, Steve and I walked over to grab a snack. Here's what happened: I put my ice crea...
Federating Personal Clouds
One of the most important aspects of personal clouds, as we envision them, is their ability to federate. Without federation, personal clouds are as interesting as a computer without a network connection. Federation is a fancy word to describe wha...
A Programming Model for Personal Clouds
As we discussed in Personal Clouds as General Purpose Computers, when personal clouds begin to act as peers with other network services, people gain unprecedented power and leverage. Personal clouds can change how we related to everythi...
Data Abstractions for Richer Cloud Experiences
As we discussed earlier, one of the primary services of a cloud OS (COS) will be data abstraction. Traditional operating systems provide data abstraction services by presenting programs and users with a file system view of the data stor...
