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So what is SSO and why do I care? Original article from Bill Neilson This is a link to a good blog to SSO the acronym for “Single Sign-On”.  There are various forms of single sign-on with the most common being  Enterprise Single Sign-On  (ESSO) and Web Single Sign-On (WSSO).  Each method utilizes different technologies to reduce the number of times a user has to enter their username/password in order to gain access to protected resources.  The blog explains both.

A long standing professional friend is Alan Moore and his new book is, like previous books, excellent. .... We have arrived at the edge of the adaptive range of our industrial world. At the edge, because that world, our world is being overwhelmed by a trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity. We are in transit from a linear world to a non-linear one. Non-linear because it is for all of us socially, organisationally and economically ambiguous, confusing and worrying. Consequently we are faced with an increasingly pressing and urgent problem, WHAT COMES NEXT? And also we are therefore presented with a design challenge: HOW do we create better societies, more able organisations and, more vibrant and equitable economies relevant to the world we live in today? No Straight Lines presents a new logic and inspiring plea for a more human centric world that argues we now have the possibility to truly transform our world, to be more resilient, to be more relevant to us bot

So we know where you have been, we know where you are, now Forecast is where you will be (an intention) Where you have been may indicate what you want but there is nothing as good as telling me what you want and giving me time to market to you before you get there.  Intention (in the widest meaning) is an untapped market.  Really looking forward to Doc Searls new book on this “ The Intention Economy ” “Personalisation before you even need it”

So we know where you have been, we know where you are, now Forecast is where you will be (an intention) Where you have been may indicate what you want but there is nothing as good as telling me what you want and giving me time to market to you before you get there.  Intention (in the widest meaning) is an untapped market.  Really looking forward to Doc Searls new book on this “ The Intention Economy ” “Personalisation before you even need it”

So we know where you have been, we know where you are, now Forecast is where you will be (an intention) Where you have been may indicate what you want but there is nothing as good as telling me what you want and giving me time to market to you before you get there.  Intention (in the widest meaning) is an untapped market.  Really looking forward to Doc Searls new book on this “ The Intention Economy ” “Personalisation before you even need it”

So we know where you have been, we know where you are, now Forecast is where you will be (an intention) Where you have been may indicate what you want but there is nothing as good as telling me what you want and giving me time to market to you before you get there.  Intention (in the widest meaning) is an untapped market.  Really looking forward to Doc Searls new book on this “ The Intention Economy ” “Personalisation before you even need it”

So we know where you have been, we know where you are, now Forecast is where you will be (an intention) Where you have been may indicate what you want but there is nothing as good as telling me what you want and giving me time to market to you before you get there.  Intention (in the widest meaning) is an untapped market.  Really looking forward to Doc Searls new book on this “ The Intention Economy ” “Personalisation before you even need it”

Playing with TweetLevel , a Twitter measurement tool created by  @jonnybentwood  at  Edelman "Even though we believe that it goes a great way to understand and quantify the varying importance of different people's usage of Twitter, by no means whatsoever do we believe we have fully solved the 'influence' problem."

Take 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions. Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private information... Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!    http://mypermissions.org/ Love it – does what it says on the tin. Created by http://avich.com/blog/  @aviche

Been playing with ResumUP – a site to try and make your CV look a little more interesting that a side of A4 ….

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPocYQKL31k] Mobiles automatically soak up the metadata associated with every incoming call, email, or text message, it's not uncommon to have way to may in a contacts list.  Leo van der Veen is behind Kontakt which scans the contact list in your iPhone and reformulates them into a simple playful interface where your phone numbers include bold colour bar charts and line graphs, as well as less obvious visualizations like extruded pie charts and illustrations of daisies. Whilst Kontakt is more art than tool – it does remind us of the uses of data.

There are now 19 companies listed as part of the PDEC start-up circle These companies are developing the tools and systems for personal control over personal data. Architecting user-managed systems to track and manage a new asset class with value in the billions: personal data. Privacy protections are just the tip of the iceberg; the industry of managing these assets wisely is in the process of creating new economic opportunities and is a magnet for talent and capital.  Do you want to join in, be listed, tell us what you are doing ? http://personaldataecosystem.org/2011/06/startup/

Just looking at the new web interface for Social ,  Geo  and  Data Marketplace  from infochimps – very cool

ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.   With ThinkUp, you can store your social activity in a database that you control , making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from your network. Small print - All you need is a web server that can run a PHP application.

I have a survey running at the moment investigating the relationship between Screenagers, brands, trust and privacy…..  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/screenager_survey So Square , the mobile payment acceptance tool is adding loyalty rewards for Square Card Case users. With Square 2.2, merchants who integrate with Square’s  mobile wallet app Card Case , will be able to now identify and reward loyal users. They can set rewards based on a number of visits or a total amount spent at the business, and when the customer reaches that mark, the merchant can apply a discount to their purchase. It could be something like a 50 percent off discount or a free item. Merchants can tell a customer of the deal when they order and the discount will be noted in a user’s Card Case app. Here is the rub from the survey results so far…. On payments we don’t want anyone to know anything; it is payment and that is that. Loyalty means loyalty – not distorting the market based on assumed knowledge On

eBay announced it is buying New York startup Hunch , a recommendation engine for its “taste graph” technology to help improve its recommendation services.  This allows eBay to focus on the interest graph * what you search for and buy) and add this to social to create more commerce.  eBay has the advantage of the widest product catalogue and no inventory but needs to find a better way to compete with Amazon. Well done to the team at Hunch.  co-founders Chris Dixon, Tom Pinckney and Matt Gattis are staying on board. Caterina Fake, who also co-founded Flickr, has already stepped away.

Love the tag line "data with benefits"  AdAge  covered both Personal their article "personal data is the new oil" - which it is as long as you can exploit it .... Personal Blog/ Launch http://blog.personal.com/2011/11/personal-launches-in-open-beta/ Kaliya (identity woman) write up is here http://www.identitywoman.net/personal-a-personal-data-service-is-live#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed

  http://selectout.org/about/ SelectOut is one of many services becoming available to know who is tracking you and manage the opt-out.  What I like about this one is the level of detail about the Cookie owner and therefore you can determine with some insight to whom is tracking you and why. I would love it if this would also allow me to make a judgement (wisdom of crowds),vote and see how others vote, if there is a fair value exchange from the tracking, what level of data (some form of heat map) has been passed back to the cookie owner and what value they have derived from my data. Worth noting that whilst the internet needs you and your data, you need cookies (currently).......

original list from Vanessa http://emergentbydesign.com/2011/10/13/mapping-the-identity-management-landscape-29-providers/ She is looking for a list of providers to map - 1.  ActivIdentity / HID Global (of ASSA Abloy),  2.  Avatier 3.  Aveksa 4.  BMC  (SailPoint) 5.  CA Technologies 6.  Cisco 7.  Courion 8.  Cyber-Ark 9.  Entrust 10.  Evidian 11.  Fox Technologies 12.  FuGen Solutions 13.  Hitachi ID 14.  IBM 15.  Imprivata 16.  IronStratus 17.  Microsoft 18.  Novell 19.  Okta 20.  Oracle 21.  OneLogin 22.  Ping Identity 23.  ProtectNetwork 24.  SafeNet 25.  SAP 26.  Siemens 27.  Symantec 28.  Symplified 28.  RSA Security 29.  VMware and others suggested.... The OpenID Foundation http://www.openid.net The Open Identity Exchange http://www.openidentityexchange.org OMADA : federation/cloud idm Centrify : unix/AD identity consolidation Liberman : Privleged id management CionSystem : similar to centrify Beyond Trust : With strong Unix Root access

So we founded IW late last year, opened in May and here is the update on progress...... IW impact: June 2011 - October 2011 30 early stage companies regularly at IW 50 early stage companies have been through IW 30 internships, part-time work & jobs created in and around IW (estimated) 10 companies received active financial support through GROW IW 3 companies raised > £500k with GROW IW assistance 30 events hosted with > 75 people at each 100 events in total 2000 people/companies impacted via events