Ldap is dead
LikeLet me be the first to say–ldap is dead. It is the wrong namespace and the wrong API. I knew it then. Damn I didn’t say.
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...
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...
Google+ Hits 10m Users in 16 Days
Like The numbers are up there. At the Cloud Identity Summit 2011 last week, Gunnar Peterson posited that the three main drivers of Identity change are: Social Media Mobile Cloud Computing I think...
