{"id":868,"date":"2007-10-06T15:29:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T23:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=868"},"modified":"2007-10-07T17:20:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T01:20:46","slug":"success-brings-many-complexities-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Success brings complexities too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pamela Dingle<\/a> is the awesome, programming, geek, girl Canadian who runs The Pamela Project<\/a>.   She produced the WordPress InfoCard plugin <\/a>that I use on my blog.  In this piece<\/a>, she has a different take on Information Card adoption:<\/p>\n

“It has been a while since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve meandered through my thoughts on where the world of the Identity Metasystem is going these days.<\/p>\n

“A few entries in the blogosphere have examined what this system is not – which is in common use. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny the truth of such statements. However, what I do see, is a growing number of people who are contacting me, because they are working hard to change this fact.<\/p>\n

“I can honestly say that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry about whether Information Cards will succeed. What I worry about, is what happens when it does. To me, this is why it is critical to run interops via OSIS, and not only that, but to create a body of work that anyone can use to understand, test, and create correctly operating components. We are in the lull before the storm.<\/p>\n

“Have you ever heard the term \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcvictims of our own success\u00e2\u20ac\u2122? This is what we will be, if the wave of mass adoption comes, and we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t made it easy to be a GOOD member of the Identity Metasystem. If we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t set community consensus on edge cases, abuse cases, some common standards for basic user interface, and other such things now, if we all don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get busy implementing and learning from our mistakes and fixing them while it is still easy to do so, it is going to be chaos when suddenly the big thing is for every site out there to accept Information Cards.<\/p>\n

“My view is, that user-centric technology in general is a massive tsunami moving towards the coast. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like much now because the wavelength is long \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but once we get close to shore\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m right, there will be a sudden, immediate, and critical demand for architects, sys-admins, and developers with experience in this space. The more mistakes we make now and learn from, the less mistakes these future techies will have to make en masse.<\/p>\n

“\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wrong about the tsunami \u00e2\u20ac\u201d well I guess we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll all have stories to tell around the campfire\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. \":)\"“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nChris Arnold<\/a>, another (German) thinker with no axes to grind, reports on what he's seing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I just want to say that CardSpace is much more than a “product<\/em>” that can be used on Microsoft Websites. First of all it\u00b4s not<\/em> a product. Secondly it\u00b4s one of the options that the “Generation Me”<\/strong> needs. Control and Choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Personally I am knowing many different and cool applications that are using Windows CardSpace (I build some hehe). I want to underline the word application<\/strong>. There are applications like the Otto Store which is an application that is build completely with the help of WebServices.  Integrated into a large backend powered by, and this is the main point, JAVA(!). <\/strong>We build a facade in front of hundreds of sun servers \ud83d\ude42   So, how? By talking standards \ud83d\ude42  That\u00b4s all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, the application is the key.  More on this later.  Meanwhile Chris says he's going to start publishing an RSS feed of CardSpace projects, and invites people to contact him <\/a>with appropriate info.<\/p>\n

Finally, I've started publishing a “sockets guage” on my homepage<\/a> – a thermometer that represents my best estimate of the percentage of desktops capable of running Information Cards  (at the current time, this is just over 11%.  I'll try to update it monthly, working with others so our estimates are across Windows, Macs and Linux Desktops.) <\/p>\n

It will be interesting to watch developments as this moves up to 30% and then to 60% and then to 90%, each with  potentially greater network effects.  We had better solve the problems Pamela raises before those effects start to kick in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pamela shifts the focus to getting ready for success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,15,9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}