I guess this is sort of like ‘game on’ in street hockey.
A week ago my blog disappeared. Apparently it was hacked to death. It is now back and running WP 2.x. I would recommend if you are still on 1.x to do the upgrade to prevent this fate happening to you.
Identity Woman
NTT and Twitter
As a new twitterer – the constant stream of error messages has been well intriguing. Not having known the service before this – I guess I just thought it was normal.
TechCrunch has an interesting take on what is going on. It says that NTT is investing in Twitter and that they moved their hosting over to Verio a company that also owned by NTT.
To me twitter is interesting from an identity perspective. I wonder what Paul thinks about it all.
Huge Shout out to Laurie – THANK YOU
Laurie Rae was an amazing help at the Data Sharing summit. I completely forgot to thank her in my last post – so she gets a whole ‘thank you post’ for herself that she totally deservers.
Laurie is not as well known an identity woman as me or Eve but has been working in this field for many years. She came to California both to attend the summit and to surf.
Marc had arranged for one of his staff people to be at the summit to help with set up, take money, run errands like get lunch etc. This person some how never arrived.
So when this gap in getting things done that needed to get done for the summit arose she stepped in and helped.
THANK YOU LAURIE.
Next time we do an event you are actually going to attend the event.
This was us wearing IDENTITY hats she brought from her friend’s store in Edmonton called Identity.
Hey Marc where were you?
Marc Canter didn’t make it to the Liberty 2.0 event. His appearance in the audience would have made the whole day a lot more interesting. Talking in the back channel with some folks we observed that the audience there didn’t seem to be that many web 2.0 folks (but since folks didn’t introduce themselves it is hard to be sure). We did find one who came for dinner he has a company called ‘somewhere.com.’ I still think there is a gap between how ‘liberty talks’ and how ‘web 2.0 developers listen’.
Getting there was a bit of a pain. The upscale veryEURO Sofitel was super snobby when it came to getting a lift from the Airport via their airport shuttle. They would only transport registered “guests” people going to meetings there don’t count. So I was out $30 for the cab ride there. 15 of us choose to go out for dinner away from the hotel…mmm..so that was $600-700 we didn’t spend on them.
Because meetings should also mean meeting the criteria to guarantee success, Sofitel has fashioned a new business meeting experience in prestige hotel venues based on the exceptional and the exemplary: luxuriously fitted spaces, first-class cuisine tailored to your specifications, and dedicated staff. BUT NO RIDES FROM THE AIRPORT…
I have to get back there tomorrow for the VRM working meeting. Not sure how I will do that exactly. The next day it is the Mobile and Identity unconference that Doc is going to facilitate.
Looking ahead to Burning Man 2007
One of the personal highlights of last year was going to Burning Man with the Sustainabilaville Camp. The experience continues reverberate and deepen as I move about the world. I just got back from a big east coast trip and I went places that I never normally go because I don’t drive. The car based lifestyle that I witnessed going by on the highway and train tracks was kind of shocking to me. It brought into focus the strong contrast of Burning Man and the contrast of being in the desert and walking and biking around the playa.
I have been looking forward to going back to Burning Man this year since returning. On top of everything Burning Man was a very interesting ‘identity experience.’ I am going to be leading a camp based on model that my Seattle Sustainabilaville friends have perfected over several years. One of the reasons I am leading a camp is because I want to be supportive of members of the identity community being able to go. There is already one identity gang member signed up to go 🙂
I am currently working on getting together 10-15 people to be the founding organizational group. I hope to have it formed by the end of February.
The theme is the Green Man – one of my favorite archetypes – the masculine in relationship to nature a sort of a pair to the ‘mother earth’ archetype. So the Green Man is ‘manly’ and powerful yet has a deep connected relationship to the natural world. He “rises” in the spring and goes to rest in the winter.
Liberty Alliance opens Liberty 2.0 Day
This is the first time that I have seen Roger Sullivan since he became President of the Liberty Alliance. He introduced Liberty Alliance and shared their new definition of themselves.
Liberty Alliance is the only global body working on define and drive open technology standards, privacy and business guidelines for digital identity management.
He was very explicitly in recognizing that there were lots of people in the industry working on solving identity management problems.
He talked about what he saw Liberty doing and looking to do in the next year:
- Exhibiting “Market Leadership” through demonstrating value in a particular space
- Increasing Transparency – be recognixed for defining open standards.
- Achieve good visability for members and non-members to activities early and often
- Inclusiveness work effectively with other industry bodies and individuals to define and develop the market – other organizations unique and different
- Reduce barriers to participation.
He spoke again about the need to work with other organizations working on identity and to work together so that the customers are not confused by articulating the commonalities and differences. I completely agree with this however I must point out the obvious – by naming openLiberty -openLiberty market confusion will result because of the similarity with the OpenID name. As someone who spends an enormous amount of her time communicating with to the people and companies in “the market” this just added yet another thing that I must explain to people. Sigh.
He closed by highlighting members of the board of Liberty and their companies. AOL, France Telecom, Ericsson, Fidelity, HP, NTT, Intel, Oracle, Sun, Novell.
They have a new website design that seems easier to navigate. I found this history timeline, backgrounder PDF, and a public community section.
Web of Compassionate Discretion – from my Bob Blakley interivew.
My interview with Bob Blakley from the RSA Conference last year has finally made it up on Stodid. It is a great interview and covers some key concepts that seem more important to remember then ever like The Web of Compassionate Discretion.
I am at MashupCamp3 in Boston facilitating and got together with Aldo to chat about identity. He brought a hard drive and I transfered this file from the device to his drive and he transformed to a readable format and edited it. We also recorded some advertisements for the Internet Identity Workshop in May 14-16.
Since I go to many many events these days. I hope that I can do a few more face-to-face interviews here and there to contribute to Stodid. Perhaps more ‘streeters’ with developers and others who might actually use the systems we are working on.
Hopefully now I can actually get my device to podcast workflow working but I am still not sure. Failing to navigate the ins and outs of podcast “literacy” w the reason for the long delay. The device I have is an Olympus recorder recommended to me by a friend for podcasting. The thing is that it has a format it recorded in WMA was one that I had no way to play on my machine. Even if I could play it I didn’t know how to edit it.
Which superhero are you?
My results:
You are Superman
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You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.  |
Blogs beginning this Christmas
Two friends started blogging
Anslem Hook with praxis makes perfect has begun talking about his idea of a map centered conversational interface.
Laurie Rae a fellow woman in the identity space and Canadian has started – MyWhat? talking about Giving 2.0 and the best conceptual christmas present ever.
I am very glad that there are these new blogs in the community. They will add more depth to the conversation.
Looking ahead to eTel – What do you think I should talk about?
In the coming year I am speaking at O’Reilly’s emerging Telephony conference identity.
I attended the show last year and learned a bit about how that whole space.
- How traditional telco’s think
- The latest on VOIP beyond Skype and
- I had never heard of Astrerix before (it is open source PBX software for office phone networks that are jacked into the web).
This month I will be discerning what I might want to talk about. I am open to unsolicited suggestions from the community. This is my talk description.
I think my best angle is as a consumer advocate because when I end up in ‘telco land’ that is most often how I feel. They just don’t get me, my communication needs nor do they want to have a real conversation. There is a reason that I have my ‘gheto’ MetroPC 3+ year old phone (it is so old that my provider recently turned outgoing text messaging turned off). I want a little computer that works but I have a Mac so I can’t get a windows phone (I just wouldn’t on principle). You walk into a celphone store and ask if any of the handsets they have work on Linux they look at you like you are from outerspace.
This post was inspired by Open Gardens ranting about why there are so few cool data applications. Because handset makers and carriers have decided that my data is not my data….
3. Unlock the user’s data. Many operators (especially in the US) make it very difficult for an application to access the user’s data stored on the device, such as the address book, the dialer, and the user’s current location. But many of the most interesting new mobile applications need to be able to work with this information. The operators are afraid to give access to this data, but they’ll need to adopt the same security model used on the Web — let the user do what they want, and defend the device via security software. It’s ugly, but it worked in the fixed line world.
The other reason I am on my current phone that has unlimited and local calling and long distance for a flat fee that only works in the bay area. To travel I end up with a pay by reasonably priced minute from t-mobile. The reason is in part to manage costs. I can’t afford the crazy bills that I have heard people getting for “going over their minutes.” This is especially true for me because I have no land line. When I have brought this concern up like I did at SuperNova last year it is sort of dismissed saying well we can’t do things for free. I was like. I don’t want things for FREE I want reasonably priced good services and not hidden ways you gouge me. Some how this concept is hard to understand. He continues.
5. Get ready to go to a flat rate for everything. The logical outcome of putting the open web on a mobile device is that voice and data merge under a single flat fee. If a Skype call is free, then eventually all calls need to be free, or the users will just switch everything to Skype. Same thing for SMS messages once they’re directly in conflict with instant messaging. The operators’ old financial model won’t evaporate overnight, but I believe it’s now officially dying. I think the race is now on for full flat-rate mobile pricing. The operator that moves to the new model fastest stands to gain the most customers.
I will be one of them. As long as I have decent pricing in Canada. All the celphone stores I went into recently said that it was like 60 or 80 cents a min for canada. That is like saying you don’t have coverage there. I would like to see 10 cents a min and would even be willing to pay up to 25. I don’t mind paying for things. I just don’t like getting ripped off.
Liberty 2.0
Well this should be a fun day in January Liberty 2.0. It is the week of Doc’s workshop on VRM at CNET.
It features Identity Gang favorites like Eve Maler, Conor Cahill, Paul Madson and Mary Rudy from Higgins.
If done well it should be a great opportunity to support the Web 2.0 social network crowd to wrap their heads around the Liberty People Service Spec that as far as I can tell is the only good way to move social graphs around that respect privacy. I think they should put an advertisement on TechCrunch for a week to spread the word.
Data Centricity … what they say nobody knows.
They are talking about us over there but … we can’t see what they are saying. I know because they linked out to me.
What is your title…mine is Identity Woman
So I am back from the Art of Leadership at HollyHock that was both a vacation and a bit of work. While I was away the announcement went out about a conference I agreed to speak at about identity in October – Office 2.0.
I didn’t really have time to do a bio while off retreating and I pointed them to my broad “who I am” page at kaliyasblogs. In reading this they picked up on a positional title I had and decided to list me with that just linking to Identity Woman under the blog link (without mentioning it in text). I find this odd because Ismael asked me to speak at the conference because I am Identity Woman.
From IT Redux: Kaliya’s participation should help us understand if there is a chance that we could get single sign-on for Office 2.0 in our lifetimes.
I would like to ask all the folks who blogged about the upcoming conference to list me as “Kaliya Hamlin aka Identity Woman, Network Director Planetwork”.
I find it interesting there is such a focus on that positional title to have legitimacy in this industry. I really think it is a disservice all around there are people who contribute a lot without positional ‘titles’ who deserve to be on stage some times perhaps more then those on stage who have ‘titles’. I hope we as a community can look at this bias towards ‘titles’ and reflect on the unique gifts and talents that are not being recognized because of it.
Think about it. If you can change my title listing on your blogs…thanks 🙂
Criag
Ross
Rob
David
Woodrow
Exciting week coming up….
This week in Vancouver is going to be great. It has started out fantastic so far:
Getting here: Brian and I flew up here on a $125 flight (it would normally be over $200 between SFO and Vancouver) that included a steak dinner with wine in economy class and the freedom to watch any one of 40 movies. It secret – Quantus Airlines. I recomend this new found strategy for getting around North America fly on International Airlines doing hops.
Vancouver Folk Music Festival: The festival is as old as I am 🙂 and I went every year pretty much until I left for college in 1995. It feels so good to be back there. The music is lovely. The best performers last night were Dubblestandart a dub music group from Viena. They also had a very enjoyable Bhangra Celebration. Vancouver into embracing its Asianness as a city and this is another example of that. Here are flickr phots of the main stage etc.
It was also super interesting that federated labour, COPE, BC Nurses Union, BC Government Employees Union, BC Teachers Federation all had advertisements in the show brochure. Unions here are mainstream and middle class a fundamental part of the fabric of canadian life.
The one bad part was buying tickets online. The process was not clear and they didn’t send a follow up e-mail to confirm purchase. I had thought my first transaction did not go through so we bought tickets again. It turns out it had gone through – if they had sent confirmation e-mails I would have known.
Coming up:
Social Tech Brewing in Vancouver: Katrin Verclas the new Executive Director of NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network) will be in town and having a dinner. I am very glad that she is holding this ‘border-busting conversation‘.
Liberty Alliance Meetings: on Tuesday and Wednesday should be great to see what goes on in inside. I will be under NDA so I can’t really talk about it but I will be able to share a sense of what it is like energetically.
Identity Open Space: on Thursday and Friday is going to be fantastic. Lots of great folks are coming to participate. I am excited several friends are coming up from Seattle who work in Tech and Social good.
My Family: I am enjoying hanging out with my Aunt and will get to talk more with my cousin at a dinner they are putting together for his birthday. He is 14 and super super into World of Warcraft. He doesn’t like school. I hope we can talk to him about the computer industry and how he might make a living in it given his proclivity towards them.
Interview: Reality: this [OpenID] is big
Getting in the game on OpenID standards: A conversation with Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman was published today on Net Squared. Marshall interviewed me via e-mail and then wrote up this story. He does a great job of explaining how identity brokers work and how people can use identifiers within contexts.
The social web, Web 2.0 or whatever you want to call it, is supposed to be all about web services, interactivity and data portability. In this context, Open ID standards will be increasingly important.
Reality: this is big
I thought that big vendors considered it in their best interests to lock us in to their systems with non-open Identities. Kaliya says that’s no longer the case. “They are all getting that identity is a ‘commons’ that no one can own,” she says. “They are seeing the end of usefulness in approaching the world through silos. The whole corporate tech world is a big exercise in sticking things together…standards really make this less expensive.”
Unconferences get mainstream coverage
The San Jose Mercury News covered MashupCamp on the front page of the Business Section today. I blogged about the article on my Unconference Blog. They had the title in the paper – “How can you plan anything in Silicon Valley using these rules?”
Identity at MashupCamp
I am at MashupCamp2 today facilitating. It is really fun to get up there and help 300+ folks make their own agenda for the day. The energy in the room is fantastic. People were asking me to encourage the sessions to be more spread out cause they wanted to go like to 4 different discussions proposed in one time slot.
Johannes Ernst and David Recordon are hear and there are at least two different sessions around identity on the schedule. I am in the first session being lead by Johannes scoping out the problem set and around identity and mashups.
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The unexpected posterchild of HollyHock
This was a very interesting expereicne – I go to HollyHock’s website to see when the Leadership Workshop starts on August 18th. Then I see this –
The picture was taken buy Kris Krug (an amazing photographer and bryght guy) and fellow Web of Changer – The conference we were at last year at Holly Hock.
I am happy to be one of their poster children because I tell folks all the time to go there – it is a heavenly retreat center. Not to posh, not to rustic – just right to relax and be. The view is amazing, hot tub over looking the ocean. Some amazing teachers choose to lead workshops there. My workshop this August is with Robert Gass.
I am posting this to wonder publicly about the deeper identity issues it raises for me in the digital age of flickr, creative commons and norms of usage.
They never asked me or even told me they were using the photo. What if I didn’t want to be there poster child? Is this really a non-comercial use? (the photo is licensed CC) and if it is not should they be paying Kris and/or me. I am not complaining at all and I really don’t want anything from HollyHock at all – I love them and want to help so lending them my photo for the season seems like a great way to contribute. I wonder about this more for beyond this situation.
Wow! – Todays Surprise I was on stage at Gnomedex.
The audience did a shout out for who would lead the the “MVP” discussion here at Gnomedex. They picked me. This has got to be one of the highlights of my career so far. I was handed the mic and invited on stage (right then) to lead a discussion for 15min. Thanks to Dave and Marc for their vocal support.
I used the opportunity to talk about the gap that I see between the civil society – (the group forming network that has been a foundational part of america – DeTocqueville wrote about it) and the social tool building sector. There is a massive gap. I hope that we can find ways to bridge it.
The reason that I am involved in the Identity world is because I want to see people, the citizens in civil society be empowered. I highlighted at the end the potential to weave together – MircoAps to meet their community needs. Where is the “myspace” for churches? Where are the social network tools to augment the neighborhood or a city block mailing list? I hope this community can engage with my challenge to them.
The identity stuff is happening right now big time. There is the Identity Open Space in Vancouver July 20-21. and in Santa Clara Sept 11.
I put forward that several things – there are a few organizations in the intersection –
• Planetwork (where I am the Network Director) We are working on the 1Society Project to build open source open standards based reference architecture for the identity layer working for civil society.
InterraProject – local economy loyalty card and social networking for community.
• The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network
• Compumentor (Net2)
• Aspiration (They have the Advocacy Dev III coming up at the end of the month).
Other things that came up during the conversation:
Today we talked about lifestyle businesses and success beyond the ‘massive liquidity event’. These are the kinds of companies that can fulfill the huge array of niches. There is an enormous market to serve civil society group forming networks.
There were some people talking about how ‘we don’t need tools’ – everything is fine or that online tools are really just good for interest communities that are not geographic.
Susan Mernit stood up and said to those being contrarian should listen to what I was saying – for those of us who care about open source we should make sure these tools work for civil society. The big companies – Microsoft etc. are making life management tools and we as a community should be thinking about them too.
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I am a 61 year old man in a zip code I have never been to…
So today I gave in and got a login to the New York Times. Of course I lied about who I was and what I did. I really don’t like that they want me to identify myself every time I want to look at one of there articles. It is another case where I am being asked for information I don’t want to give- I can give it by lying and get in or not give it at all and not.
Heading to SuperNova
I am writing this whole post on the lovely highway style bus that runs a block from my house and takes 1/2 an hour to get into San Francisco. It is free today cause it is a ‘spare the air day.’ I am going to SuperNova and will be blogging on their site today.
I flew back from Boston yesterday even detouring through Long Beach so I could get a 11:30 flight but still be back by 4:45 to make the SuperNova party last night. I went with Brad Topliff from ooTao and we made some great connections. The lightbulbs are going on that tapping into a functioning identity layer and user-centricity would make a lot of sense for there business models. Today at the conference there will be a session called ‘Who owns you” similar to where I just came from – “Who controls and protects the digital me?”
We had a great time on the third day of open space. the venue was not totally ideal. We got to hold sessions outside and we had sessions around tables and in corners of the main lower atrium of MIT media lab. It would have been good to have breakout rooms and I know at the Identity Open Space in Vancouver there will be.
All reports are that launch for i-names went really well.