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 both personally and collectively, socially cohesive, sustainable, economically vibrant and humane, through the tools, capabilities, language and processes at our fingertips......

I can see we are slowly rejecting the wisdom of books as the method of learning and passing facts.  We are moving back to pre-printing press when non-linear existed and where our brains probably want to be again.  Non-linear is not a struggle unlike long form concentration and deep thinking.   With my true engineering hat on, linear and straight lines are only special cases so why did we focus on them?

If you want to buy his book.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Straight-Lines-Making-Non-linear/dp/0956766242
http://www.amazon.com/No-Straight-Lines-Alan-Moore/dp/0956766242

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 ….

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.