Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Day 1.3

I'm late getting off to my morning at CES 2007, fighting the terribly slow connection here at the Excalibur. (And this time EvDO isn't helping, either... too many people, too many choking points.)

Anyway, I did just post The silent victory of Linux-as-geology at CES 2007. That's my Day One report. Now I'm off...

Making Mobile Identity happen

While VRM is my main project with the Berkman Center, it grows out of a larger focus there on Identity: specifically user-centric identity, or identity that starts with the user rather than with the large organizations that provide us with plastic cards and track us in their marketing databases.

Lots of progress has been made in user-centric identity. But most of it has been on desktops, laptops and in browsers. We need the same kind of progress — or a lot more, frankly — for our mobile selves. With few exceptions (myself, sometimes), we don't spend our whole lives in front of computer screens.

Which is why my front-burner job with Berkman right now is the Mobile Identity Workshop, which will take place at CNet headquarters in San Francisco on Friday, January 26. It's an unconference like the Internet Identity Workshops and the Identity Mashup held over the last year — and of BloggerCon IV, which was held in that same location.

There's no charge, but space is limited. Sign up here.

So far

Terry Heaton: Podcasting comes of age (or not). Key stat: only about 20% of podcasts are actually downloaded for use in a player.

Uh oh

Here's a story about a lie detection technology that works over Skype. The lie detector monitors in real time the stress levels in a speaker's voice.