To all those claiming victory in the nymwars, hold on to your horses and read between the lines. Nothing that has been said indicates any kind of understanding from Google on the debate over use of pseudonyms. Phrases like “the issue is technology, resources and the atmosphere the company wanted to set” sounds suspiciously like [...]
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See you at the European Identity Conference
Just a quick reminder that if you are at the European Identity Conference taking place in Munich right now (from May 4-7), then I will be on 3 (count that, 3) back-to-back panels tomorrow (today) – Wednesday May 5th. I already told you about the first two in a previous post, but I am now [...]
Podcast on Identity Management for Cloud Computing
As part of Oracle’s Identity Management Think Tank Podcast Series, I recorded a podcast on “Identity Management for Cloud Computing” with our Chief Identity Architect Vadim Lander. You can listen to it by clicking here. In the podcast, we cover What are the key security concerns about cloud computing How security requirements vary between Private [...]
The ‘x’ in xAuth stands for…
…xhausting! OK! So being at a conference (Cloud Computing Expo in NYC, where Oracle is making big waves with announcements in the PaaS space) where I had no wi-fi or power meant that I was trying to follow the big xAuth announcement via Twitter on my iPhone over 3G – note exactly the easiest thing. [...]
It’s gonna be a jam-packed May for Identity
This is probably an anomaly, but May is shaping up to be a pretty jam-packed month for me in the identity-related conference circuit, with some great events going on where I will be speaking/hoping to speak. My participation is still subject to some approvals coming through, but I’m fairly confident on that front. So there [...]
Welcome to the new Talking Identity
I know I’ve been quiet for a while. In large part, I lay the blame at the doorstep of the almighty Twitter. It made it too easy for me to get my thoughts out there without having to put too much effort into it But it is partly also because I have been working on [...]
Help debug my blog :)
By the way, it seems that there are some issues with features and controls on my blog. Thanks to a number of emails from readers, I realized a while ago that my post archive has not been working. Also, seems that the comments people posted to my blog are not being handled correctly. I put [...]
A new identity for my blog
Those interested may have noticed that last week I rebranded my blog to its new name – Talking Identity. Thanks to all those that gave me suggestions (even the ones given sarcastically). Hopefully this resolves any conflicts that arose with the previous name I had chosen. The name reflects what I hope to do through [...]
The choices we make…
Working as I am on the architecture for the next generation of our IdM products, I found the thesis of this article extremely interesting. It basically uses Windows as an example of how the cost of innovation increases dramatically with any attempt to make that innovation backwards compatible. And points out how Apple tackled a [...]
Our new mantra?
In an internal memo last October, Ray Ozzie, CTO for Microsoft, wrote, “Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.” Amen to that! That is why the new focus of the IdM groups should [...]
