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...
Technology Adoption Lifecycle
Like For many, the technology adoption lifecycle is so well known that it is cliché to mention it. For others, its like a big surprise and they have never heard of it. Either way, it continues to be a major topic of...
The Burtonian Technology Matrix
Introduction Figure 1 shows the Matrix. Here is the overview of how things work. Figure 1—The Burtonian Technology Matrix The vertical axis is the accessibility scale. The horizontal axis is the ownership scale. On the upper end of the accessibility scale is located the Open definition. Note that the opposite of Open is not proprietary....
Weight Loss Secret
I am now down 68 lbs.
Curtis displays the secret to my weight loss.
At least 2 liters of water a day.
User Driven Democracy
Great talk given by my buddy Doc Searls.
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Keys to the Kingdom
Drummond Reed was so generous to respond to my recent post about how to recognize an Identity Implementation Fail. The following paragraph in Drummond’s post set me to thinking: Even Microsoft with their design for Information Cards (which are the closest we’ve ever come to full asymmetric key-based security infrastructure) never fully solved that problem....
How to Spot an Unnecessary Identity Fail
I’ve been watching the recent announcements about how hackers—some speculate foreign countries—have cracked the security infrastructure of a system and have stolen the names and passwords of thousands—sometimes millions—of customers. The details of all these disasters are not what I want to talk about. Just this simple and seemingly obvious point. Any system that stores...
Dukan plan—Down 62 lbs
The Dukan Diet: 2 Steps to Lose the Weight, 2 Steps to Keep It Off Forever by Pierre Dukan Read more about this book… Since Kim Cameron introduced me to this plan, I have dropped 62 lbs. I plan to be down another 130 lbs. by this time next year. Thanks Kim!
How to Divine the Bovine
Doc Searls gave a presentation at Impact 2011. In that presentation he presented the language of traditional track and target marketing epitomized in CRM: He then pointed out that the verbs used in CRM are also the language of slavery and….animal husbandry. How he made that connection is a mystery. Mysterious as it is...
Fail! NetIQ Horror Movie
NetIQ is starting to get its plan together. I am working on an analysis of this for Kuppinger Cole. If this video is an indicator, it won’t be pleasant. Very scary video. I can’t show this to my grandchildren. They will have nightmares.
