APIs Are Bridging the Mobile App Gap
Almost overnight, it seems, our lives came to revolve around social networks: We scan our Facebook feeds for updates from our families and relevant news, use Twitter to follow friends and celebrities, and pin the latest fashions or home-improvement ideas via Pinterest. Behind it all is the desire to drive engagement, to stay connected with […]
Easing Password Hell – Key To Living Online Life Safely
As we all use more and more different services and applications in our personal and work lives, password management becomes ever more of an issue. It’s staggering the number of times I’ve had to gently make people aware of the fact that using one simple password for every single service
Your Twitter security is an egg, not an onion
Hard to come up with a more fuzzy title really. Let me cut through the usual Twitter conversation show and pick only one: .@CoCreatr @VenessaMiemis @dsearls Twitter DMs can be seen by 3rd parties http://bit.ly/auSmBL < what part of “access” did u not understand? That was a rather short version of the original tweet, including […]
AuthN, AuthZ and Gluecon
As I’ve mentioned many times in the past, I’m not an engineer. Still, along the way, even the non-engineers like me pick up some tidbits of knowledge. One of the things I learned in my years spent in identity management (”IdM”) is the difference between Authentication (”AuthN”) and Authorization (”AuthZ”). And, as it turns out, […]
WebFinger – Paradigm Changing?
I wrote a post recently about what billFLO is doing for small, Mom and Pop owner of Do it Best stores. This, along with some pretty exciting discussions I’d had both as part of The Small Business Web and privately with some other people, got me thinking about the reality on the ground for SMBs. […]
OAuth Beginning to Rock the World
OAuth, or Open Authentication is “an open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications”. Basically it’s a way to allow one web application to utilize another without the need for users to worry about pesky authentication keys or the like. It also allows for data […]
Zoho Project Integrates With Google Apps – A Smart Move?
When I wrote about Manymoon few months back in my Living in the Clouds Series, I mentioned Google is not offering a Project Management App along with their Google Apps Office Productivity Suite. Many Google App users were handicapped by the absence of a Project Management app that is integrated with Google Apps. This is […]
How to Prune Twitter Spammers if Your Account is Compromised
I’ve just received one of those “Hey, I just added you to my Mafia family. You should accept my…” crap-spam-junk invitations on Twitter. Normally these come from accounts I don’t recognize, and I either ignore or block them. But this time it came from a gray-haired, well-respected industry analysts – I just could not imagine […]
The Liminal State
A few days ago, I posted about the chasm between “social media” and “enterprise 2.0″ – about the different messaging, models and modes of thinking, but all with what I think is common ground. Over the past few days, I’ve found myself in interesting conversations around “social CRM,” the collision of tools like twitter and […]
