{"id":869,"date":"2007-10-07T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T01:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=869"},"modified":"2007-10-07T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T01:34:09","slug":"information-card-thermometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"Information Card Thermometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" width=\"120\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/10\/tipping_point.jpg\" height=\"225\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 225px\" \/>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve started publishing a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sockets guage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/\">on my homepage<\/a> &#8211; a thermometer that&nbsp;represents my best estimate of&nbsp;the percentage of desktops running Information Card bits (and thus capable of using&nbsp;Information Cards).&nbsp; As of October, 2007, this is just over 10.2%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to update&nbsp;this estimate&nbsp;monthly, working with others so our estimates are across Windows, Macs and Linux Desktops.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to watch&nbsp;developments as this percentage moves up to 30% and then to 60% and then to 90%,&nbsp;each with&nbsp;&nbsp;potentially greater network effects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today we are in the &#8220;Sockets and Ecology&#8221; phase where we can see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CardSpace and DigitalMe and other Card Selector sockets growing towards a tipping point<\/li>\n<li>software for building relying parties becoming widely available and understood on all platforms and in all languages<\/li>\n<li>the early versions of the software&nbsp;put out by Microsoft and others&nbsp;being&nbsp;refined and perfected through community feedback and experience<\/li>\n<li>leading applications raising the competitive bar by adopting the technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our view is that as&nbsp;these phenomena accelerate, CardSpace and its sister implementations&nbsp;will be increasingly used across many different contexts and their ability to support minimal disclosure and prevent the use of universal identifiers will become increasingly valued and apparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve started publishing a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sockets guage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on my homepage &#8211; a thermometer that&nbsp;represents my best estimate of&nbsp;the percentage of desktops running Information Card bits (and thus capable of using&nbsp;Information Cards).&nbsp; As of October, 2007, this is just over 10.2%.&nbsp; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to update&nbsp;this estimate&nbsp;monthly, working with others so our estimates are across Windows, Macs and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Information Card Thermometer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}