http://netmesh.info/jernst Digital Identity, OpenID, LID, InfoGrid, NetMesh, NoSQL Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:11:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seems there's a new kid in town. The old kid was the Open Stack for identity and social media protocols, or as I sometimes referred to, the Open Pile. Today, Rackspace and a few other companies apparently announced a new Open Stack, which has nothing to do with the old one. ... http://netmesh.info/jernst/big_picture/the-new-new-open-stack The 10th Internet Identity Workshop this week had record attendance. Since that first one, five years ago, amazing adoption has happened: pretty much all major technology companies have implemented, more than a billion identities in the market, tens of thousands of sites accept them, more people show up to IIW ... http://netmesh.info/jernst/digital_identity/the-best-and-the-worst-of-times-whence-internet-identity You are not on the bandwagon yet? You are so behind the times! Haven't you heard that the web is now social, and user-centric, your customers are in charge, they create and remix and share and rate and activity stream and manage you, the vendor, and you still haven't implemented ... http://netmesh.info/jernst/digital_identity/lets-implement-the-open-pile-itll-be-great CRM Magazine has a very nice article about Vendor Relationship Management. Titled, "It's Not Your Relationship To Manage", it has plenty of quotes from Doc Searls and the VRM community. Not a hint of critizism that I can spot in a CRM magazine? VRM has come a long way. Congrats Doc! http://netmesh.info/jernst/comments/very-nice-vrm-article The first time I heard of an "unconference" I was very sceptical. No program? No speakers? What kind of conference is that? Well, it's the kind of conference in which you skip sitting in the audience falling asleep because the speakers drone on or the panelists are just ... http://netmesh.info/jernst/news/attending-big-data-workshop-april-23-mountain-view-ca From my other blog: NoSQL databases are a perfect disruptive technology in Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma model ... I’m predicting that the relational database is going to die. Read more. http://netmesh.info/jernst/big_picture/nosql-and-the-end-of-the-sql-cash-machine Here. I still think it is <<insert strong adjective here>> that none of the major content companies other than Google have in any way supported Google's stand here. At the very least, they could publicly say that they admire Google's point of view. It costs them nothing, and does have an ... http://netmesh.info/jernst/big_picture/very-nice-china-censorship-testimony-by-rebecca-mckinnon Wasted two hours today attempting to HTTP POST some content with a client certificate using curl on OSX Snow Leopard. It somehow would not show its cert to the Apache server. In an act of desparation, I tried the exact same command with the exact same client certificate on Linux, and ... http://netmesh.info/jernst/technical/curl-broken-in-osx They thought: why not simply requiring everybody to store logs, just in case a crime happens and the authorities would have a much easier time if they could access the logs when they needed them. The German constitutional court disagreed and requires that all such logs be deleted as soon as ... http://netmesh.info/jernst/big_picture/germany-law-requiring-data-retention-in-advance-unconstitutional If you want to know, read through this slide presentation put together by Joint Venture Silicon Valley and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. It aggregates a wealth of data. One thing that struck me particularly: it says that 45% of all people speak a language other than English at home. That ... http://netmesh.info/jernst/personal/what-is-silicon-valley-like