age | Jason E. Shao

Tim Bray Not Sure About OpenID

Feb

27

2007

ongoing Â· OpenID The Real Problem Â· Of course, out there in the enterprise space where most of Sunâ€™s customers live, they think about identity problems at an entirely different level. Single-sign-on seems like a little and not terribly interesting piece of the problem. They lose sleep at night over â€œAttribute Exchangeâ€; once you have ...

Strange love for passwords

Feb

26

2007

Strange love for passwords Now, I’m not going to speculate too far into the future, to a time when Visa displaces the DMV or passport agency as issuer of authoritative international credentials for every kind of identification and authentication. However, there are no other entities that have Visa and MasterCard’s topical ubiquity and influence.Â They’ve ...

Netvibes Promises Cross-Platform Widget Compatibility

Feb

21

2007

Netvibes Promises Cross-Platform Widget Compatibility Today at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, Netvibes founder Tariq Krim announced that their upcoming â€œCorianderâ€ release will do just that. Once launched, any widget created for Netvibes, Krim says, will work on the Vista, Google, Mac and Opera platforms as well. Support for Yahoo Widgets and ...

Personas and Test Data

Feb

21

2007

I was reviewing the excellent work Unicon’s Gary Thompson has done in developing personas related to uPortal (really they seem applicable across Higher-Education), which jogged my to write about some thinking: leveraging well-developed UE personas to build a suite of synthetic test-data. User Experience is often not fully integrated within other aspects of the software ...

uP3 Day 4: PersonDirectory & Portlet Publishing

Dec

12

2006

Faizan got PersonDirectory working — after several updates and IRC exchanges with Eric. So uP3 now hits Rutgers LDAP to retrieve a mapping of our person attributes. Hard to test since the Portlet spec makes you explicitly declare the user attributes a portlet recieves. Probably privacy friendly, though writing a “show me all the attibutes” ...