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Recently my good friend, Roy Kimbrell, wrote me about Google's latest Chrome announcement: I was able to watch a few minutes of Google's live webcast of their announcement of their newest version of Chrome.  I am very impressed.  The biggest deal is the app store - apps that run in Chrome.  You may need to log-in to Google first (don't know, I use Gmail, so login is kinda automatic).   During

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Psst! Wanna make a million billion dollars? What if Facebook had slots for real world identitiers, like DMV name or bank name?  What if you built a Facebook app and a meatspace organization that would vet people, linking their Facebook ID to some real world ID?  You could charge them.  And you could offer insurance to relying parties through your Facebook app. Vetting would have to be serious,

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This is a very pragmatic blog post, just to share what I’ve learned about e-readers.  It is not meant to be comprehensive, just useful. There are four e-readers that I find interesting.  I use all four of them, partly to spread the wealth around, and partly because they each have a feature or two that I like.  I use them both on my PCs and on my iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPhone).

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http://tootallsid.blogspot.com/2010/05/liberal-and-conservative.htmlA year or so ago I just despaired at the "conservative" movement in the U.S.  It just seemed to be fatcats and idiots, with no smart, practical people.  After all, McCain picked Palin as as his Veep candidate, which thankfully handed the election to Obama. But now I read David Brooks, Ross Douhat, and Reihan Salam (the last

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I use to work in card payments and worked with the crypto, even participated in ASC X9F6.  One of the things that I thought about for over 6 years was how to encrypt the card number (personal account number - PAN).  Sixteen decimal digits - 31 bits of entropy max.  There are only a few initial numbers - 4 for Visa, 5 for Mastercard, etc - plus the cards for a given financial institution are

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The Tao is the concept of opposites, articulated historically by Laozi (the Lao Tzu of my youth).   The two opposites are referred to as yin and yang. I am a Taoist in that I can see large patterns driven by opposites that seem diametrically opposed, and seem to always manifest, one with the other. Right now on the Internet, another major paradigm shift appears to be happening in a shift from

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It just happened to another one of my friends: suddenly everybody in their address book is telling them that they got some serious spam, intent on fraud.   Apparently, someone got into their email account, stole their address book, and mailed spam to everyone in it. It happens all the time.  It happened to Sarah Palin and it happened to me last month.  It is very embarrassing.  It was quite a

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Contrary to what the proponents of "unfettered capitalism" say, business requires rules, regulations, and laws.  Alan Greenspan, for example, points out that at a minimum, all capitalism requires the concept of private property, embodied in law.To build a public identity system that is also a business, requires a framework, too. In March, 2010, at RSA Conference 2010, a basis for frameworks,

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I have no idea if any of these are true, but they sound believable!                1.  Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?         A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in   Europe were made of a dense orange clay called 'pygg'. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that

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Wired Magazine has a killer interview with Daniel Pink and Clay Shirky.  Clay is one of my heros, and after reading this, I think I need to learn more about Mr. Pink. Clay has been talking for awhile about where we all find the time to do stuff on the Internet: we don't watch as much TV. Americans watch on the average 200 billion hours of TV a year.  Yeah, take a minute and just think about that

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I recently collaborated with Jon Erickson at Dr. Dobbs Journal ("Running light, without over byte!") on an article about static source code analyzers.   At my previous job at ACI Worldwide, I had inaugurated the use of one of these, Klocwork Insight, although we looked at four others.  If you happen to be interested in this topic, you can find it here.

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He friends her, she IMs him, he emails, they tweet, he texts, they iChat, she calls, they reach altered states with designer cocktails, have sport sex, and never see each other again. http://bit.ly/bwrFYA

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My brain is of course being massively altered right now.  Being paid to try to make sense out of social media is Ken Kesey being paid to test out psychedelics. Blog: TooTallSid  Twitter: @TooTallSid  Facebook: Sid Sidner  LinkedIn: Sid Sidner Above you see my four outlets. I am starting to get rocking on Twitter.  I use the program Tweetdeck and really like it. It has PC and iPxxxx

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[From quotationoftheday_request@yahoo.ca] Quotation of the Day for May 10, 2010 "That same circuitry is active in your brain today in the amygdala, hippocampus, and related structures. It's hard-wired to scan for the bad, and when it inevitably finds negative things, they're both stored immediately plus made available for rapid recall. In contrast, positive experiences (short of

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I think the current polarization of the American electorate is just a false dichotomy.   I have many friends who vote way different than me, but we still can agree on basics.  Who is NOT for family values, for instance?  Nobody.  Who wants the U.S. to keep getting deeper and deeper in debt.  Nobody.  I would call myself a liberal Democrat, but I am a big fan of Christy Todd Whitman, Olymipa Snowe

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Blogging? Twitter? Facebook? LinkedIn? Search Engine Optimization? Social media? If you're just a little confused or overwhelmed by these concepts, I highly recommend Inbound Marketing by Brian Halligan and Darmesh Shah.  This little book is easy to read and gives you a step by step introduction to how to participate in the Web and find your Voice. Inbound marketing contrasts with outbound

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In April I accepted the position of Community Evangelist with PingIdentity. Why? Internet-scale identity:  This is a smoldering passion of mine.  Two friends at my previous employer, ACI Worldwide, got me thinking about it in 2002.  The more I thought about it, I began to realize that this was one of the great unsolved problems in the world.  In my work with payment cards, online banking, and e

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Ah, I apparently got my history wrong: Visa created 3D-Secure and holds the patents on it. No offense intended. I've only worked in this industry for eight years, which makes me a veritable newbie. I was told the history of 3D-Secure by some colleagues. Like all oral histories, sometimes they get the facts really mangled.

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-= Introduction =-This document describes a scheme to enhance Internet and mobile commerce using a new Identity Metasystem proposed by Microsoft, called InfoCards. This scheme builds on the existing 3-D Secure e-commerce scheme developed by Visa and adopted by MasterCard, Visa, and JCB.The existing 3-D Secure scheme is implemented in the worldwide payment networks. However the adoption by

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