Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Patricia Seybold on Liberty. Yesterday I published my analysis of the Liberty Alliance version 1.0 spec. Today, Patricia Seybold and Geoffrey Bock published theirs. It's almost as though we were reading from the same script. (Great minds think alike?) Sound bytes from Seybold:
- Not customer centric enough! [Exclamation theirs]
- Liberty just saves you the step of logging on separately to each of these supplier's sites.
- ...displeased with the marketing-centric approach...
- ...the group's vision is one in which businesses make marketing partnerships with one another and customers opt into these business relationships...
- ...no provision yet (in Version 1.0) for customers to control which of their profile information they want to share in which contexts with which providers.
- Federated single sign-on is a good start. [This is where I differ with Seybold. I think the concept is fundamentally flawed. Read my essay and tell me what you think.]
Posted Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:34:20 PM 
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Knoppix. Want to play with Linux without messin' with your PC's hard drive? Knoppix offers a free version of Linux that's configured to boot off of CD-ROM with no installation. Very cool. Download the 680mb ISO CD-ROM disk image, burn it onto a 700mb CD-ROM, and boot. Works great. It found virtually all of my devices, allowed me to run the video in 1280x1024 mode, and even picked up an IP address from my firewall's DHCP server. It includes Star Office, and I was able to access all of my Windows files. A great, zero-risk way to play with Linux.
Posted Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:03:47 PM
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