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Perhaps it’s because we’re in the run up to the holiday season or because the press release came from the UK that accounts for the lack of commentary on the announcement that Experian has developed a CardSpace proof of concept with Microsoft. This is notable for a couple of reasons. First it’s another of what [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 by adminThe Del.icio.us Lesson – Bokardo An old blog post by Joshua Porter from last year, but one which makes a valuable point about the growing obsession with tagging capabilities – and the need for clear personal value if the tagging feature is to be worthwhile. Something that enterprise soft Vagmi’s musings: Social Graph for the [...]
Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 by adminConnectID: ID-WSF and the VRMish;Magazine subscription use-casePaul Madsen of Liberty Alliance provides a useful use case for the web services framework (ID-WSF)
Posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 by adminOpenID 2.0 specification released | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Summary of the new capabilities of OpenID 2.0
Posted on Saturday, December 8, 2007 by adminEnterprise Service Bus (ESB) players often talk about their ability to support BPEL, and this is often mistaken for BPM support. But BPEL is a misleading beast (as I’ve blogged about previously). It’s not a bad technology for helping IT folks with declarative specification of service-to-service integration processing, but it’s not the same as BPM. [...]
Posted on Friday, December 7, 2007 by adminThis might sound like an odd title for a post, but I was prompted by this ZapThink ZapFlash, via the ever-watchful Todd Biske. The ZapThink note starts off talking about the challenges in SOA adoption that come from organisational issues – specifically, challenges that arise from situations where tactical decisions continue to trump strategic decisions. [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 by adminOAuth: Introduction A useful summary of the OAuth initiative which sets out to allow individuals to enable access to their resources without revealing their usernames, credentials etc. Liberty Alliance has a similar set of capabilities in ID-WSF and ID-SIS The Patrick Harding BlogPatrick of Ping Identity discusses the relevance (or not) of user-centric ID in [...]
Posted on Friday, November 30, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I just came across Steve Jones’ post, Nodding dog alignment – the perils of aligning to people not business, in which he points out the sad reality that many IT organisations which believe they are aligned with the business aren’t actually delivering value. Why? Because they are aligning with the wrong things. Instead of focusing [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 by adminAndrew McAfee at Harvard Business school poses an interesting question: do ‘managers’ belong on the list of knowledge workers whose jobs are being transformed by information technology? His question is prompted by a number of interesting examples of the use of IT in areas such as “fluid” building fabrication, sculpture, BMW car design and poker [...]
Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 by adminI’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen throwaway comments exhorting companies to “create a centre of excellence (CoE” (mostly, for initiatives like SOA or BPM). Vendor / pundit / analyst / journalist: “Having trouble? Establish a centre of excellence!” Customer: “Oh, that’s OK then, I’ll do that.” But let’s take a deeper [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by admin
