Passport vs OpenID vs Facebook Connect

My post yesterday on Facebook Connect raised a few eyebrows. I had a few discussions with people and a comparison of consumer identity solutions past and present may provide some context. (I have excluded InfoCards as I see them as a strong, enterprise grade solution that is currently too heavy for general consumer use.) Passport Microsoft rolled [...]

Facebook Connect - fatal blow for OpenID?

At F8 today, Facebook rolled out their Friend Connect platform. With a small amount of code, other sites can integrate the Facebook identity system into their site. The keynote reminded me of early days of Microsoft as they rallied developers to build on their platform by explaining how the platform can help them and being [...]

Big Boys and OpenID

TechCrunch wrote an article asking if the Big Boys were exploiting OpenID. The crux of the argument was that they are providing OpenIDs, but are not accepting them. In other words, they are an OpenID Provider, but not a Relying Party.  John McCrea echos what Michael said, and Jason Kolb and David Recordon also wrote posts [...]

Industry Giants join OpenID Foundation Board

Today Microsoft, Yahoo,  IBM, VeriSign, and Google have joined the OpenID Foundation as corporate board members. This big news for OpenID. With Yahoo and Google becoming OpenID Providers earlier this year, this is really shaping up to be the year of OpenID. First coverage I see of the announcement is at CNN Money. That’s funny. Updated 6:57AM Mike [...]

2008: The year of OpenID?

This year is starting off with a roll of thunder for OpenID with coverage today from TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Wired and PC World and OpenID positioned as a foundational technology of the DataPortability Workgroup and at the upcoming Social Graph Foo Camp. With the finalization late last year of the OpenID 2.0 specs (included Attribute Exchange); [...]

Podcast on

Jon Udell recently interviewed me about the BC Government Identity Management project. Podcast provides some thoughts on that, and then we wonder into general discussion on user-centric identity.

OpenID at Next Web

I gave a talk on Identity 2.0 at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam. Although the organizers are not professional conference organizers, it was pretty wll run, and they were great hosts! The attendees where the tuned in digirati from around Europe and the presenter lineup was pretty good. My talk on identity was well [...]

Defrag conference

Eric Norlin (hey update that blog!) has a new conference Defrag. I twisted his arm so that I could be one of the speakers so that I could be cool and hang out with all the great speakers. This is going to be one of those inciteful conferences that have a relatively small number of [...]

Identity 2.0 is insecure?

Petko D. Petkov a.k.a. pdp wrote a provocative post entitled "Identity 2.0: How Attackers Break into Identity-centric Services".  As you can imagine, I was intrigued by such a title. In the post, pdp talks about how the real world is decentralized and then claims that Identity 2.0 is centralized. An Identity 2.0 architecture is similarly decentralized. [...]

Account delegation standard released: OAuth 1.0 now public

Yesterday a spec was released that solves one of the internet identity problems: how do you let an app access your account at a web service without giving it your username and password. Yahoo, AOL, Flickr and Google all had a slightly different approach to solving this problem, which created additional overhead for developers. OAuth [...]

CRM Phishing - Brand Theft

As enterprises migrate to on-demand applications, they are becoming a new and attractive target for phishers. Previously considered a threat for consumers, phishers are now targeting an enterprise’s customer list and using it to launch attacks against the enterprise customer - exploiting the enterprise brand. Many on-demand apps can send email to the enterprise customers [...]

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BC Gov releases requirements and architecture for public sector identity management

After over a year of effort, I’m excited to see the results of many people become publicly available. The Province of BC wants to enable the right people to get the right information at the right time to enable better outcomes.  One of the initial roadblocks in accomplishing this goal is knowing who the right [...]

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IObit SmartDefrag cures the primary cause of slow/unstable PC performance -- disk fragmentation. It defragments your hard drive more efficiently than any other product on the market –– free or not. With the "Install it and forget it" feature, IObit SmartDefrag works automatically and quietly in the background on your PC, keeping your hard disk running at maximum speed. After installation, slow downs, freeze-ups, and crashes will be a thing of the past. IObit SmartDefrag is 100% free for personal, home and small business use.

I really like them and best of all, they are completely free. They do not pop up ads and they do not spy on you. IObit freeware products have received very positive reviews from publications such as CNN, Forbes, CNET and PC World. You can download them for free at http://www.iobit.com/.

"IObit SmartDefrag is a smart tool to maintain your system performance, speed and stability for no cost at all."
- Editor's Choice, FreedownloadsCenter.com, October 2006

"IObit SmartDefrag is a free defragment tool and worth investigating. It’s also rather fast."
- Editor’s Review, Feb 2007

Extremely Easy to Use
Install it and forget it. This powerful, free utility works continuously, automatically and quietly in the background on your PC. Its intuitive interface makes IObit SmartDefrag the ideal utility for complete computer dummies.

Exceptionally Efficient Defragmentation
IObit SmartDefrag has the world’s fastest defragmenting engine. It’s been specially designed for modern, large hard drives, so it eliminates long waiting times.

Optimize Your File System
IObit SmartDefrag doesn’t just use simple defragmentation. It also streamlines your file system, enabling your computer to run at top speed with the most stability.

Always-on to Work Automatically
IObit SmartDefrag works automatically and quietly in the background, so it continually and constantly keeps your computer fragment-free.

Free Defrag Forever
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My new facebook friend!

I have become a fairly active Facebook user and recently had Lindsay Adams invite me to be a friend. Lindsay had no other friends at the time and, well, given the photo, was not really buying that this hot blonde *really* wanted to be my friend. I am naive at times, but not that naive! I [...]

How did they get my email?

Today I got an email from Smith Micro about VM Fusion. I have never dealt with Smith Micro, no real idea who they are. At the bottom of the email I noticed that the email had been forwarded by Sxipper.  I click on the management link and see the following page Cool! I see that this is [...]

BC Gov to test out Information Cards

On CBC News British Columbia will test a virtual ID "card" that enables citizensto connect with the government’s online services more safely andeasily, a top technology official said. The government plans to begin tests on an "information card" early inthe new year, said Ian Bailey, director of application architecturefor the province’s Office of the Chief Information Officer.