The latest report from the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, Library of Congress has a couple of interesting points:
MuleSource: an open source bus in the cloud
Gloomy words on Salesforce.com
Mike Jones: Shibboleth Supporting Information Cards: "This will enable the millions of members of the academic and research communities with identities provided by Shibboleth software to use those identities under user control through Information Cards at sites where they are accepted. Microsoft is a sponsor of this work, just as it sponsored the earlier Internet2 work to add WS-Federation support to Shibboleth."
Comment - for people whose identity spands the NHS and HE CardSpace could provide a consistent way to manage those identities, whilst keeping the user in control.
Scott Wilson has a Shibboleth - CardSpace question:
"I'm assuming here that Shibboleth SAML assertions will be made available as Managed Cards within a users personal CardSpace; the text of the announcement isn't very clear on this point. However - if (and I assume this isn't the case) the intent is the opposite - to make CardSpace cards usable by federations, but not vice-versa - then the value proposition will be considerably less"
Mark Lawson: "So there is a risk of Google ruining some lives. What we don't need to worry about is the prospect of it running them. If anyone's stupid enough to do what a computer tells them, their problem is not that they might be losing their civil liberties but that their marbles have gone long ago."
Shibboleth-Cardspace convergence - this seems sensible. CardSpace is growing in influence by lifting itself out of the proprietary layer of the Internet.
I am doing a small piece of academic research involving the Therapeutic Research Corporation. I did a quick search on Google and the top hit was this. If only everything was online.
More on Microsoft Popfly
Microsoft Popfly - alpha - worth a look
eHealth: Rolling out personal health records to 900,000 staff at Verizon (eventually)
Google wotsit power: William Heath compares the performance of the DirectGov search engine with plain old Google
Peter Suber comments on the NIHR (DH/NHS) Open Access Mandate
In a small way, the Chatham House paper on Iraq Accepting Realities in Iraq is a testament to the growing impact of Web 2.0
Google : next steps for Google search
Ross Anderson has published a review of patient information security in the NHS
Most of the work on RSS has been from a consumer perspective. But as further evidence of the incursion of consumer computing into enterprise compting teritory comes a new report from Forester on Enterprise RSS.
Windows Live Folders beta looks good, but such a lame name.
Nick Bradbury: Web 2.01: web and desktop convergence.
Tim Bray · OpenID at Work: "What’s probably more interesting in the big picture is that openid.sun.com shows that OpenID can be put to work on something with actual business value"
Trey Drake : "An out-of-the-box OpenID server built atop OpenDS and Java EE"
Trey Drake : "How do you demo a directory server? Build cool apps around it."
OpenDS an alternative to Active Directory?
PayPal gets together with Royal Mail This looks like a good development. Maybe eBay should take over post offices.
Various people have remarked how Sun is opening up, with the possibility of Solaris going Open Source. Now news of OpenID at Sun, a further experiment for Sun and a boost for OpenID
Health reference work in Second Life
not an enormous grant, but a service worth watching.
Panoramio - location aware photo sharing.
Hotmail update: (pay attention at the back...) "So, what was Windows Live Mail is now Windows Live Hotmail, and Windows Live Mail desktop is now Windows Live Mail, and Outlook Express and Windows Mail (in Vista) are being phased out."
Alf Eaton is adding a really simple service to HubMed. A greasemonkey script enables one click additions of papers to publicationslist.org: add publications from HubMed to PublicationsList.org
Netvibes is growing
Salesforce is now a platform
The Box Widge from box.net is a neat little tool
Guidance for researchers (pdf) on the open access policies of the main UK research funders
RSSBus is a Really Simple Service Bus that uses the RSS protocol as the main interchange mechanism. RSS is an extensible protocol used to exchange Feeds of Items. Normally these are news items or blog postings, but they don't have to be: RSS Feeds may be augmented through standard RSS extensions to exchange any type of data. [more]
WHO is planning to use wikis and blogs in the production of ICD 11
And then perhaps publish as an open access resource?
Was RSS really the first incarnation of RDF?(!):
Apparently, the semantic web is already filtering through to regular users. "RSS (really simple syndication) was the first incarnation of this, and it's pretty prevalent," Professor Decker told ENN.
I've been puzzling about web data services for a few days - how might you 'query' a data source in a web serice oriented architecture? Today two pieces of information. First from Dave Winer, who would like to use APIs onto web spreadsheets, and then just now, news of Microsoft Astoria, data services for the Web. The sample services rather wonderfully include Northwind Traders.
