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Sxip News RSSArchives 2005 - Quarter 3
Remixing RSS: Future Implosion or Saved by Identity 2.0?
30 September, 2005 - 8:22am
Roland Tanglao's fabulous presentation on Remixing RSS last week is now available online as a podcast. We agree with his assessment that one of the most interesting parts of the evening was the Q&A amongst the Web 2.0 user group members. The discussion revolved around what is going to happen to the future of RSS as it becomes increasingly popular -- will the signal to noise ratio be overwhelming and thus go the way of Usenet? Roland commented on the differences this time being: search engines, filtering, and if we have Identity 2.0.
Digital Identify Defined
29 September, 2005 - 8:50am
Our Identity 2.0 video of Dick's keynote at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference this summer is continuing to pique people's interest. ZDNet's Dan Faber wrote yesterday, "Must watch: I've seen Dick Hardt's presentation on the nature of digital identity evolve over the last several months, and the version available here really captures the complexities of participating in an online world and how identity is at the center of the Web experience."
SXIP Year 2: User-Centric Infrastructure Solutions
27 September, 2005 - 12:55pm
One year ago today we released the first specs for the Sxip Network an open source identity management platform, which provides a framework that enables distinct and portable Internet identities. Since then, we've added Perl, PHP, Python and Java Membersite Development Kits; the Sxip Network Homesite package; and suport for Drupal. We've also been taking in feedback from the community with what you want to see in SXIP 2.0. And we'll be making available really soon, a new tool for bloggers, sxore, a reputation system for user generated content built with Identity 2.0 technology. Check it out for yourself at next week's Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. We'll be demoing sxore at our booth #1B. Hope to see you there!
Identity and the Big Bang
26 September, 2005 - 2:27am
Our founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, is participating in two interesting days of dicussions this week on identity management at the Stanford Law School. The goal of day one is to identify specific approaches to ensuring that international treaties and identity management technologies mesh to bolster freedom in the networked world. The topic of day two covers the Laws of Identity and user centricity; authentication, privacy, distributed governance and participant roles in identity meta-systems. This is a preparatory meeting for upcoming Workshops and a National Conference on Identity Metasystems and the Big Bang. Looking forward to hearing their findings!
Trusted Computing -- A Brave New World?
21 September, 2005 - 11:45am
The Electronic Frontier Foundation bring up some excellent questions surrounding Trusted Computing with respect to privacy invasion, "big brother" control, and vendor lock-in / anti-open source. Although Trusted Computing is tangential to our identity management focus; our Identity 2.0 vision of the Web is founded on giving control of digital identity back to the individual. Thus the concerns raised by the EFF are something that bears mention. They provide an excellent summary in Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk. Check out an informative and entertaining video that explains the issues in plain English!
Passwords will reach breaking point by 2007 says Gartner
19 September, 2005 - 10:39am
Gartner recently warned that in two years, 80% of organizations will have reached a password breaking point. They claim that passwords will become increasingly unusable as organizations try to stay ahead of hackers by making them more complex and increasing the frequency of changes. Ant Allen, Gartner Research VP, likened this to "rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic".
Web 2.0 User Group -- Global First in Vancouver
16 September, 2005 - 6:13am
The world's first Web 2.0 user group has been formed in Vancouver and will have their initial meeting on Thursday, September 22 at the ActiveState headquarters. The discussion for the evening is on "Remixing RSS: Past, Present & Future" by Bryght's Roland Tanglao. More information is available on the group's new Web 2.0 blog. For those interested in joining, you can sign up at yahoo groups. Look forward to seeing you there!
Dreamforce Day Three: Packaged Software & Drug Pushers
15 September, 2005 - 11:30am
The Dreamforce conference closed with a bang during the Salesforce.com Partner Summit in a no-holds-barred panel of VCs discussing "How to Succeed in the On-Demand World". Moderated by AMR Research Chief Research Officer, Bruce Richardson, the discussion was frequently akin to that of the McLaughlin Group, and proved to be entertaining and informative. Perhaps the most incendiary comment was that of Ray Lane (formerly an Oracle Executive) and now General Partner with Kleiner Perkins, who compared packaged software vendors to that of drug pushers. Ouch! Glad we deliver our solutions via an appliance and hosted form factors.
Dreamforce Day Two: Intelligent Reaction
14 September, 2005 - 7:19am
The day started off with an excellent interview being broadcast of saleforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff on CNBC and his take on the Oracle/Siebel merger, which he humorously quipped "Oracle put Siebel investors out of their misery. We have been doing that for Siebel customers for years." The interview was followed by a number of speakers, the most interesting of which was the keynote by Google's Adam Bosworth on "Intelligent Reaction".
Sxip Access Now Supporting Salesforce Rich Clients
12 September, 2005 - 11:15pm
We've added rich client support to Sxip Access, which now provides salesforce.com customers secure access to the Salesforce Outlook, Office, Offline and Wireless Editions. This enables customers to manage user identities at salesforce.com, and have all the productivity benefits of rich client use, without exposing their corporate passwords over the Internet.
Dreamforce Day One: Success On Demand
12 September, 2005 - 3:01pm
"The Internet makes inevitable the end of software". Marc Benioff, the Chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, issued this bold statement during his keynote today in San Francisco at their annual user and developer conference, Dreamforce. He unveiled the details of a major new initiative, AppExchange, saleforce.com's soon-to-be-released platform for sharing applications and components, an offering Benioff likened to the eBay of the applications world.
Identity 2.0 now in video
8 September, 2005 - 5:11pm
Do you agree that the existing identity systems are falling behind? We believe that new systems are emerging that place identity in the hands of users instead of directories. Find out more about our Identity 2.0 vision from Sxip's founder and CEO, Dick Hardt's fastpaced keynote at the recent O'Reilly Open Source Convention. The presentation is now online and can be viewed on your own computer in large and small versions in Flash, Quicktime and Windows Media.
Kudos to the Katrina PeopleFinder Project
7 September, 2005 - 9:12am
The problem of proliferating Internet databases of the numerous Katrina refugees is attempting to be resolved through a worthy project, PeopleFinderTech, which is compiling data from databases across the Web into one central database. They're making use of on-demand technologies such as the Salesforce API to develop innovative technology solutions to the missing persons problem.
Online Banking Stalls Due to Phishing & Privacy Concerns
6 September, 2005 - 11:38am
A survey by polling firm Ipsos Insight that was released today, found online banking in the US has flattened after several years of dramatic growth mainly due to concerns over hackers stealing and using personal information and fears that some companies may be selling client records to third parties.
Phishing Attacks Up by 28% in 2005 in the US Says Gartner
30 August, 2005 - 9:50am
A study released earlier this summer states the the number of phishing attack email recipients grew 28 percent this year, according to a Gartner Research survey of 5,000 online U.S. consumers. They found that 57 million consumers in the United States had received a phishing e-mail during the prior year.
The End of Software? Find out next month...
28 August, 2005 - 6:09pm
Join Sxip at salesforce.com's annual user and developer conference, Dreamforce, and hear from the "End of Software" pioneer Marc Benioff, as he discusses the future of on-demand.
Identity 2.0 for Breakfast
26 August, 2005 - 10:44am
Join us for the kickoff of the newly established BCTIA Breakfast Seminar Series. Sxip's Founder and CEO, Dick Hardt, will present on Identity 2.0, our user-centeric vision of online identity.
Securing On-Demand Access
24 August, 2005 - 8:49am
"A Web 2.0 company with a product that'll appeal to ultra-cautious corporate IT types. How cool is that?" Thanks Phil, we agree! Phil Wainwright with ZDNet discusses the Sxip Network and Sxip Access in his Software as Services column.
IAM market expected to almost double by 2009 says IDC
23 August, 2005 - 9:22am
A new report by analyst research firm, International Data Corp., predicts the market for identity and access management (IAM) products will grow to approximately $4 billion by 2009. This is nearly double the $2.3 billion IAM market in 2004.
Uncovering the Next Web
22 August, 2005 - 11:26am
Seattle VC, Erik Benson, has posted a good summary of the ten steps we've taken to get to the "two-way web", which he starts with AOL in 1985 under "intial online infrastructure and content". Sxip is listed in step 9 "identity management federated web services".
Sxip at the Internet Identity Workshop
19 August, 2005 - 9:43am
We'll be at the Internet Identity Workshop this fall in Berkeley. The focus is on a user-centric approach to identity on the Web. Sxip and others will discuss their identity systems such as Liberty Alliance, Microsoft Infocard, and many more. We'll post more about it next month during the workshop...
Identity 2.0 -- Revving Web 2.0
18 August, 2005 - 3:25pm
Join us at the premier tech conference of year, where we'll be featuring SXIP 2.0, the new protocol for the Sxip Network and releasing Sxore, our free comment server that eliminates comment spam on blogs. The Web 2.0 Conference brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the internet industry together in one place at one time.
Sxip Expanding With Web-Based Identity Management
17 August, 2005 - 9:34am
The Vancouver Sun has just published an article on our Vancouver and San Francisco expansion. Business Reporter Fiona Anderson discusses, Sxip Access, our on-demand identity management solution for ASPs, which is unique from other IdM systems. She also reports on our Identity 2.0 vision, which is a "quantum jump" from how we look at identity today.
Sxip Builds Critical Mass: Brain Gain from Across the Globe
16 August, 2005 - 8:21am
Sxip has acquired top talent from across North America and Europe to accommodate its Vancouver expansion and new office in San Francisco. In addition to new recruits for development, the senior management team welcomes Chuck Mortimore, Vice President of Product Architecture and Alfie Karmal, Vice President of Sales. Their immediate focus will be on further development, sales and marketing of Sxip Access, the only identity management solution designed specifically for on-demand applications.
Identity 2.0 -- It's my information, right?
15 August, 2005 - 10:01am
The recent posting in A Nation By the People and IP Addresses by Wayne Hall provides a good summary of the differences between a silo-centric Identity 1.0 web and our vision of a user-centric Identity 2.0 web. He correctly notes that when consumers gain control of their online identities that vendor identity policies will be forced to adapt, allowing for greater privacy.
Protect Yourself -- Trojan Phishing On the Rise
11 August, 2005 - 4:41pm
A new report published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group on August 3, 2005, found that phishing attacks has risen by 42% over the same period last year. The study noted that small banks and credit unions are increasingly being targeted as many large financial institutions have retrofitted their networks to spot phishers.
30% of ID theft from the Internet
11 August, 2005 - 3:49pm
A recent survey from one of the largest insurance companies in the US, Nationwide Mutual, found that one-third of those surveyed blamed their compromised IDs on the Internet, where they think their information was exposed to hackers.
Identity 2.0 -- More than Just Single Sign-On
5 August, 2005 - 8:18am
Not just "another marketing attempt", our keynote on Identity 2.0 at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference has generated a lot of positive feedback.
One Login to Bind Them All
2 August, 2005 - 9:02am
Looking for one login and password to check news feeds, publish blog posts, manage social networks and swap photos or music online? Your "digital lifestyle aggregator", GoingOn, is coming soon! Available this fall, it will interoperate with the Sxip Network.
Presentation 2.0
28 July, 2005 - 2:53pm
Not only are are we working on the next generation of digital identity, we're also discussing it in an innovative way. Check out some of the buzz.
Weighing in on the Conversation: the Sanity of Sxip Access
19 July, 2005 - 5:38pm
Craig Burton, father of the meta-directory, recently commented on the sanity of Sxip's new appliance, Sxip Access. Thanks to Marc Cantor for his defence of us, but we felt we should weigh in on the conversation.
The Future is Open: Identity 2.0 at OSCON
19 July, 2005 - 5:05pm
Missed our talk of Identity 2.0 in San Francisco and San Diego? The join us in Portland at the 7th Annual O'Reilly Open Source Conference.
Cognos pilots Sxip Access for their ASP-based applications
13 July, 2005 - 12:39pm
Cognos, the world's leading provider of business intelligence software, has successfully deployed a pilot of Sxip Access, our on-demand IdM solution.