As our lives increasingly revolve around web apps, we end up with multiple user-name passwords combinations. Because websites have slightly different password rules, or because I don't trust the site with my 'main' password, I ended up with many sightly different passwords. So many, my head was ready to explode.
I'd signed up for OpenID a couple of years ago. But few sites support OpenID, I wasn't using personally until a fellow researcher started checking out Microsoft Geneva, which looks awesome. But I need a standards based solution I can work with right now, and incorporate into single sign-on systems from SoftieGoogooYahoo in the future.
I've trusted VeriSign with https certificates and visited their HQ in Mt View for the Java Posse meet-up and was awed by the level of security (like entering a military base). Long story short, VeriSigns PIP, personal identity portal works as a secure relay leaving you with just a single 3 way secure OpenID to sign-in to almost any real 'login' web site.
check it out https://pip.verisignlabs.com/ slide show 'inspiration':
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
sharding
http://highscalability.com/unorthodox-approach-database-design-coming-shard
MDV & BASES presents:
"How to Scale a Startup Successfully: A Discussion with Two Silicon
Valley Startup CTOs"
Date: Wednesday, October 3
Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Location: David Packard Electrical Engineering Auditorium,
Stanford University
Food and drinks provided following the talks!
Discussion topics:
1) Scaling to the Masses - How hi5 built an information architecture
to support millions of users
Speaker: Akash Garg, CTO and Co-Founder, hi5 Networks
(http://www.hi5.com)
Come hear about hi5's evolution and the tools and techniques that
have successfully allowed them to support the needs of 70 million
users. Akash will also discuss challenges faced and lessons learned
as hi5 scaled over the past 4 years.
2) Building scalable web services with practical tools
Speaker: Nathan Schmidt, CTO of PBwiki (http://www.pbwiki.com)
PBwiki has exploited Free and Open Source tools to build out a
scalable, performant infrastructure with very small capital
investment. The last few years have seen a dramatic change in core
pieces available to system architects, and we'll talk about some of
the practical approaches to horizontal scalability, availability and
performance for today's nimble web startup.
MDV & BASES presents:
"How to Scale a Startup Successfully: A Discussion with Two Silicon
Valley Startup CTOs"
Date: Wednesday, October 3
Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Location: David Packard Electrical Engineering Auditorium,
Stanford University
Food and drinks provided following the talks!
Discussion topics:
1) Scaling to the Masses - How hi5 built an information architecture
to support millions of users
Speaker: Akash Garg, CTO and Co-Founder, hi5 Networks
(http://www.hi5.com)
Come hear about hi5's evolution and the tools and techniques that
have successfully allowed them to support the needs of 70 million
users. Akash will also discuss challenges faced and lessons learned
as hi5 scaled over the past 4 years.
2) Building scalable web services with practical tools
Speaker: Nathan Schmidt, CTO of PBwiki (http://www.pbwiki.com)
PBwiki has exploited Free and Open Source tools to build out a
scalable, performant infrastructure with very small capital
investment. The last few years have seen a dramatic change in core
pieces available to system architects, and we'll talk about some of
the practical approaches to horizontal scalability, availability and
performance for today's nimble web startup.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Windows System/36
Microsoft San Francisco hosted Startup Weekend San Francisco. Tickets for the Sunday Night Demos were $5.99, less than a matinee movie, with a Tandoori dinner included. Turns out, I was in for helluva treat. About 140 people, developers, designers, had ozmosed into 20 teams following un-conference format.
Unconference implies no rules, wrong!
Teams group together based on similarity of interest, merit skills, capability to-do the job and good spirit. The Startup Weekend goal is to develop a working demo (not power-point), and a presentation pitch to catch the interest of venture capital.
The 20 teams leaned young and no team had developed Windows apps, all demos were Web and mobile apps. I feel we are at the inflection point where the new generation app patterns offer a 10x increase in productivity over the prior.
Analogy, IBM System/36 apps were replaced by Microsoft Windows apps. Azure looks likes Microsoft’s next generation, and I expect Startup Weekend like events to evangelize and win mindshare.
Enough yap, the Sunday Night Demos!
Unconference implies no rules, wrong!
Teams group together based on similarity of interest, merit skills, capability to-do the job and good spirit. The Startup Weekend goal is to develop a working demo (not power-point), and a presentation pitch to catch the interest of venture capital.
The 20 teams leaned young and no team had developed Windows apps, all demos were Web and mobile apps. I feel we are at the inflection point where the new generation app patterns offer a 10x increase in productivity over the prior.
Analogy, IBM System/36 apps were replaced by Microsoft Windows apps. Azure looks likes Microsoft’s next generation, and I expect Startup Weekend like events to evangelize and win mindshare.
Enough yap, the Sunday Night Demos!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Web 2.0 expo hall, takeaway
* Platform connections companies turned out (Facebook, IBM, MSFT, Salesforce)
* Search engines did not (Google, Yahoo)
* Private community platforms, showed up
* Consumer internet communities, did not (MySpace, Friendster)
* Specialist SaaS providiers turned out (Meetup)
Conclusions:
* Laser focused specialists grow, by squeezing out multi-players
* Platforms focus on niche, but generally add value by aggregating others content
* Key to growth focus on disaggregating own content, to aggregate others content
* Search engines did not (Google, Yahoo)
* Private community platforms, showed up
* Consumer internet communities, did not (MySpace, Friendster)
* Specialist SaaS providiers turned out (Meetup)
Conclusions:
* Laser focused specialists grow, by squeezing out multi-players
* Platforms focus on niche, but generally add value by aggregating others content
* Key to growth focus on disaggregating own content, to aggregate others content
web 2.0 expo hall pics
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