In recent meetings on access management and single sign-on I’ve mentioned the usability work being done by the Kantara ULX Working Group and suggested that it represents real progress in terms of how the relatively complex ‘federated login’…

One specific issue that came up during discussions at the FAM10 conference (see my previous post) was about the use of ‘attributes’ vs ‘entitlements’ in the SAML messages passed from Identity Providers to Service Providers’. For the…

I’ve been doing some cloud-related (cloudy?) thinking as part of my work on the FleSSR project over the last couple of days, ultimately with the aim of delivering a piece on business models for cloud services (one of the project deliverables) but initially just…

As mentioned previously, I spoke at the FAM10 conference in Cardiff last week, standing in for another speaker who couldn’t make it and using material crowdsourced from my…

I listened in to a G-Cloud web-cast organised by Intellect earlier this month, the primary intention of which was to provide an update on where things have got to. I use the term ‘update’ loosely because, with the election and change of government and what-not, there…

This week saw publication of Martha Lane Fox’s report, and the associated government response, about the future of the UK government’s web presence, Directgov 2010 and beyond: Revolution not evolution:

The report, and the Government’s initial response, argues for a…

The use of iTunesU by UK universities has come up in discussions a couple of times recently, on Brian Kelly’s UK Web Focus blog (What Are UK Universities Doing With iTunesU? and iTunes U: an Institutional Perspective) and on the closed ALT-C discussion list. In both cases…

Lawrie Phipps of the JISC has written a nice response to the recommendations of the report to HEFCE by the NUS (the UK National Union of Students), Student perspectives on technology — demand, perceptions and training needs [PDF], which…

One of the things we did with our last tranche of Eduserv Foundation project funding (a couple of years ago now) was to fund Harry Halpin of Edinburgh University to work on what became the W3C Social Web Incubator Group. The result of…