The Friday question: 20 April 2012
Thought I would try something out for a while. Every Friday, I will post an unGoogleable question. When it’s an image, I will make sure it’s unTineye-able. If it’s music, I will make sure it’s unShazam-able. [And yes, I understand that something that's unGoogleable today becomes Googleable tomorrow. That's the nature of the internet and...
Persian Pulled Lamb
I don’t usually link to existing recipes, but this was so good, I had to: http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/647703. We only let it marinade for one day, which seemed to work fine.
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At last
Amazon is now shipping my new book, The Intention Economy. Yes, the Kindle version too. They even have the first chapter available for free. You can “look inside” as well. Thanks to Amazon’s search, you can even find stuff that’s not in the index, such as the acknowledgements. Those include a lot of people, including...
OpenID Connect has won the 2012 European Identity Award
I’m thrilled to report that OpenID Connect has won the 2012 European Identity Award for Best Innovation/New Standard. I appreciate the recognition of what we’ve achieved to date with OpenID Connect and its potential to significantly change digital identity for the better. As Dave Kearns wrote in the OpenID Foundation announcement about the award: I’m...
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...
Three little words
A few days ago, I was reading Chris Skinner’s then-latest post on the Financial Services Club’s blog, headlined Never Mind The Channels, Here’s the B&**&^ks. And agreeing, of course. We are connected not channelled, as I wrote in the Kernel For This Blog seven years ago. And yet, as Chris says, there are still many...
Of open data and pregnant men
In 1997 I was hired by Dresdner Kleinwort Benson to run their Euro, Y2K and Regulatory Minimum Requirements Programmes. Three classic “mandatory” projects that engendered classic responses: everyone agreed the projects needed to be done, everyone had an opinion on the how and what of each project, but nobody wanted the job of actually getting...
April 10, 2012 OpenID Connect Update Release
The OpenID Connect working group has released an update to the OpenID Connect specifications that continues incorporating significant developer feedback received, while maintaining as much compatibility with the implementer’s drafts as possible. The Connect specs have also been updated to track updates to the OAuth and JOSE specs, which they use. The primary normative changes...
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...
PLOA – Just What You Need to Know
On Friday I had a demo of PLOA – Personal Levels of Assurance — from it’s architect, Jay Glasgow at AT&T. I’ve known Jay since he attended an XDI retreat hosted by Scott David at Whistler two years ago, and at … Continue reading →
