Posts with keyword: information+cards

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We Need More Than a Selector

Wed Nov 11 09:36:00 2009

If you glance at Johannes Ernst's latest blog post, Why We Really Don't Need an "Identity Selector", you might think he's speaking out against identity clients, but in reality, he's speaking out against identity "selectors." That is, the idea that the most important, useful feature of such a client is "selecting" an identity. He says: The correct product is not a "selector". It also must be: An identity "de-selector", with which the user can become anonymous again (or perhaps even remove all the information from the site which was conveyed during the "identity selection" phase). The much-desired "single sign
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IIW Trending Topics: OpenID and IC Cooperation and Activity Streams

Wed Nov 4 11:52:00 2009

IIW IX, the 9th Semiannual Internet Identity Workshop is underway at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. At each meeting, I'm usually surprised by the emergence of one or two topics and pleased to see continued moves toward even further consolidation and cooperation between mature identity protocols. There continues to be increased cooperation between OpenID and Information Cards. I've see demos of using Information Cards to store and apply OpenID from Microsoft and heard discussion around OpenID selectors and trust frameworks. I quipped that OpenID keeps adding features incrementally in a way that asoptotically approaches the design of
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Kynetx Endpoints and Linux

Mon Aug 31 08:49:00 2009

Over the weekend, Travis Hartwell tweeted "I would try out Kynetx, but it appears the required plug-in Azigo is not available for Linux." Alas, It's true that Azigo doesn't support Linux. Still, there are some ways to use Linux to develop and deploy Kynetx apps. In fact, I do all my development on Linux. We call the way that a Kynetx app is deployed an "endpoint." The endpoint is responsible for initiating the call to KNS and mediating the interaction with the client. The details of the execution model are available online. There are several ways that Kynetx apps
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I'll Send You a Card: Information Cards in the Wild

Thu Apr 2 09:33:00 2009

I've been hearing about information cards for the last four years or so. For that entire time, they have been largely theoretical or, at best, used for logging into a blog or something else. I'm out to change that. A few days ago Steve Fulling was on the phone with Paul Trevethick of Parity describing a pilot project we're doing for the Locals Care organization of New Mexico. Steve said "I'll just send you the card; put it in your selector and you'll see the results in Google." That's a pretty interesting statement: "I'll just send you a card."
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The Advent of Next Generation Browsing

Wed Feb 4 19:44:00 2009

Today I'm releasing the first of a series of white papers on Kynetx and what it's trying to accomplish: The Advent of Next Generation Browsing (PDF). I introduce the problem in the first few paragraphs like so: We are mired in a tangle of architectural legacies that make today's Web browsing experience uncomfortable, confusing, and tiresome for many users. In particular, the lack of Web site independent identity has hampered the ability of the browser to effectively intermediate the Web on the user's behalf. But change is coming and we are about to witness a significant improvement in the
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