Solving coordination problems, in this case the internet identity problem, always involves leveraging some existing coordination framework. For example the PGP signing scheme leverages the acquaintance network and the signers are encouraged to leverage the government issued identity cards. For example my local library asks to see a utility bill, and thus leverages the account [...]
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Here’s a principle that I think the internet identity community needs to come to grips with. Sites are going to talk about users behind their backs. They are going to exchange information about users without the users explicit permission. While strictly speaking the users permission for these exchanges may have been acquired the user will [...]
Friday, February 16, 2007
Nothing legitimizes a standard like usage. What makes Microsoft Window’s a standard is those billions of transistors all over the planet are chewing way on it’s code. What makes Google search a standard is that all those of searches are taking place. In that sense of legitimate OpenID continues to struggle. While usage remains the [...]
Monday, February 12, 2007
Mike Neuenschwander’s Law of Relational Risk “Contribution to the relationship that is not met proportionally by the other participants is a loss to the contributor.” is perfectly fine but that it suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome. Relationships are not like accounting. Since there is no reserve currency for relationships it is impossible to balance the books. [...]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Another addition to my collection of examples were members of a group sport something that reveals what others might tend to think of as private information. In this forum the members decorate their postings with information about their credit scores. Not unlike the folks that do the same thing with their due date or their [...]
Friday, December 15, 2006
Martian speaks wisely about why open voice networks aren’t a technology problem but a social entrepenural one. At the same time he is also talking about a minor aspect of why internet identity isn’t a technology problem. These days I find myself thinking that internet identity is hard because the gap between people’s intuitions [...]
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Thought provoking: my morning mail reports that the ID card servers at the university are down and that this effects “card readers” across campus. Reminds one that hubs are a target for assorted criminal activity. I wonder what boundry crossings people are discovering they can’t make right now? Meanwhile I’m told we citizens get our [...]
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Consider this statement: “Alice says that Bob is lazy.” Is it better to summarize this as: “…Bob is lazy” or “Alice … is lazy”? The 2nd is very often better. Speakers mentions traits which reveal their own traits. What you say reveals your internal dialog. So it’s with great amusement that I stumbled upon this [...]
Monday, September 11, 2006
Presumably as the internet identity problem get’s solved services will emerge that can cough up tiny nuggets of information about those identities. Did zippy_133_a go to Harvard? Is sweet_thing_341 over 18 years of age? What percentage of wild_boy_12′s comments to blogs were flagged as spam, offensive, angry? Ebay, for example could provide a service that [...]
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
I see that the New York Times found a reporter with sufficent wit to actually track down one of the users who’s searchs are revealed in the AOL search data. It’s a pretty good article. Meanwhile Ben Laurie is curious about creating an anonymous package delivery system by mimicing the ideas found in Tor. It’s [...]
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