OpenID is one of the main building blocks towards establishing the portability of personal data between social networks and other online services, a.k.a. decentralized data storage, decoupling the services used from data provided.
Major changes to the OpenID authentication specification, draft 11 to draft 12:
* Specify handling of URL fragments
* Realm verification using XRDS discovery
* Don’t […]
The key factor in the digital media age is the allocation of attention. In a recent blog post on ReadWrite Web - “The Attention Economy: An Overview”, author Alex Iskold provides an interesting framework we’d like to discuss. In a reverse market, where users determine the design of products and services […]
In our highly specialized economy the main value-added activity is actually the coordination of resources, such as brainpower, energy, raw and processed materials. In Economics we call the costs of organization transaction costs. Nobel laureate Douglas North (Economic History) managed to explain the path humanity took in world history according to lowering transaction costs (institutions) […]
At the Digital Forum, Seoul, a journalist asks Eric Schmidt on what he thinks could mean Web 3.0. At first Schmidt refuses to indulge in “hype-terms”, such as Web 2.0 and others. But he can’t resist speaking about connected, atomic, high-performance Internet apps and risks calling this Web 3.0. Enjoy - Google is pushing the […]
Peter A. Buxbaum writes in the Social Computing Magazine about how the U.S. Military is learning from Youtube, MySpace, Facebook and Web 2.0 to improve operations and knowledge sharing - http://socialcomputingmagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=477 (for subscribers of Social Computing Magazine) or at http://www.military-information-technology.com/article.cfm?DocID=2082
Web 2.0 tools and technologies – allowing for the combination of information from different sources […]