Unexpected moves- January 25, 2008 Right out of left field comes the announcement that Mike Neuenschwander, formerly Burton Group Vice President and Research Director, has joined Mycroft, Inc. as General Manager. I covered Mycroft ("A marriage, a hot couple, and a single looking for a date at Catalyst") at last summer's Catalyst conference where they announced the merger with Talisen Technologies. Their business is implementing IdM solutions from other vendors - they're in the service delivery and solution implementation...http://vquill.com/2008/01/unexpected-moves.html Whose data is it- January 11, 2008 The Burton Group's Bob Blakley has a great post ("Antisocial Networking") today about the Facebook-Scoble story. The essence (or, at least one essence) of Bob's note is that relationships are a different order of data from attributes. As he says:"Even the fact of your relationship with Scoble is not Scobles property, it is common property, like the kids in a joint custody arrangement. Both you and Scoble are obligated by the laws of relation here and here to treat the fact that you have a...http://vquill.com/2008/01/whose-data-is-it.html Big fish, little pond- January 7, 2008 A Press Release I just read promotes L-1 Identity Solutions decision to acquire Bioscrypt, which is referred to as "Bioscrypt Inc., the leading provider of enterprise access control solutions headquartered in Ontario Canada,..."I wonder how many other providers of enterprise access control solutions are headquartered in Ontario :)http://vquill.com/2008/01/big-fish-little-pond.html Promulgating the social graph- January 4, 2008 Julian Sanchez, over at Techdirt gets it while many in the identity community - and even more who are involved in social networking - don't."Intuitively, it makes sense for users to be able to make whatever use they please of information about their own social networks. But in a social network, "your" information is someone else's as well."Exactly!The point about relationship data is that there is a relationship. And a relationship, like a contract, has two sides (well, it could have more - but.http://vquill.com/2008/01/promulgating-social-graph.html |