Yearly Archives: 2007

Web2.0 expo Berlin: MyID.is

L’expo Web2.0 c’est aussi des start-ups qui présentent leur produit dans les couloirs de l’expo. J’avais dans le radar the todeka project de Charles Nouÿrit depuis un moment, l’expo Web2.0 a été l’occasion de le rencontrer.

Qu’est ce que Todeka? Tout d’abord The todeka project s’appel désormais MyID.is, pas mal comme nom de domaine, non? Vous devezmyidis.gif déjà avoir une petite idée du sujet auquel s’attaque Charles: l’Identité Numérique. Ce n’est pas forcément évident au premier abord mais on est en plein coeur de la problématique web2.0. D’ailleurs Il a beaucoup été question d’openID durant l’expo, myid.is est une implémentation d’openID.

Charles m’a montré l’application qui devrait sortir incessamment sous peu, dans le mois qui vient, bientôt… Très belle interface, à la Netvibes, des widgets partout (autre tendance forte du web2.0: la widgétisation du web). Plusieurs onglets chacun représentant une identité différente. Les widgets dans les onglets permettent d’agréger dans cette page les informations concernant votre identité numérique (comme ziki) qui sont actuellement répartit sur le web: votre/vos blog(s), comptes flickr/youtube,… Les widgets sont aussi exportables et donc affichable dans d’autres sites, notamment le widget badge qui permet de certifier qu’un contenu sur le web vous appartient.

Donc jusque là, pas grand chose de nouveau, belle réalisation, belle intégration il m’a semblé mais rien de nouveau. La vrai différence que devrait apporter myID.is sera la certification de votre identité par un procédé que Charles n’a pas voulu me révéler totalement avant le lancement officiel. Mais il reposera sur des contrôles online et offline ainsi qu’un mécanisme similaire à la validation d’un compte sur paypal (micro prélèvement sur votre bancaire qui fait apparaître un code dans vos relevés bancaires que vous saissisez ensuite sur le site)

Un beau projet, ambitieux, il s’agit ni plus ou moins de rajouter la couche d’identification qui manque au web en s’appuyant sur des briques bien conçu comme openID.

Ce billet est l’ocassion de vous inviter à découvrir les 7 lois de l’identité définie par Kim Cameron de Microsoft suite à l’échec de la technologie passport.

Est-ce que myID respectera ces 7 lois de l’identité?

1. User Control and Consent:
Digital identity systems must only reveal information identifying a user with the user’s consent.

2. Limited Disclosure for Limited Use
The solution which discloses the least identifying information and best limits its use is the most stable, long-term solution.

3. The Law of Fewest Parties
Digital identity systems must limit disclosure of identifying information to parties having a necessary and justifiable place in a given identity relationship.

4. Directed Identity
A universal identity metasystem must support both “omnidirectional” identifiers for use by public entities and “unidirectional” identifiers for private entities, thus facilitating discovery while preventing unnecessary release of correlation handles.

5. Pluralism of Operators and Technologies:
A universal identity metasystem must channel and enable the interworking of multiple identity technologies run by multiple identity providers. (Starts here…)

6. Human Integration:
A unifying identity metasystem must define the human user as a component integrated through protected and unambiguous human-machine communications.

7. Consistent Experience Across Contexts:
A unifying identity metasystem must provide a simple consistent experience while enabling separation of contexts through multiple operators and technologies. (Starts here…)

Web2.0 expo Berlin: Entreprise2.0

Beaucoup de monde dans la salle, le sujet intéresse.

Il s’agit d’un panel composés de:

Sam Lawrence, Chief Marketing Officer, Jive Software
Lee Bryant, Director, Headshift
Laurent Gasser, Chief Executive Officer, Revevol

Interviewé par Brady Forrest d’Oreilly radar.

Those are my notes, not an exact transcript of what they said, but my interpretation, so there might be some misunderstandings.

LB:
social change is massive in the compagny
biggest transformation since email

not about techno but about usage

We have a set of existing entreprise product
It department is often  backward and old school
how do we get around IT departement?

But he is working with top ten law firm
=> very visionnary people inside those compagny
very sustantial changes coming.

SL:
Clearspace is similar to sharepoint
Integration with core business application is key
They don’t look at the different tool separatly they use them thogether
something as a all.

LG:
Enterprise 2..0 consulting company
New Behaviors to create value

LB:
Web2.0 definition
Building an architecture of participation
network effect
Doing thing together we can’t do alone
Connect the reading and writing done in the enterprise create incredible value

SL:
There is a ton of things that happens to create a document, an information.
Finding the right person, asking, searching, filtering,…
Only a small fraction is done using tools, there is a huge hole.

Framing that problem and coming with a solution

LG:
Web2.0 is a set of different tools
There is not one tool more important than the others
Find the best usage inside the corporation and then chose the appropriate tools.

Key of success is to set up the right mix
In small corporation they do it harder in bigger corporation

People only use it if they  find value
you have to start with the usage

SL:
It’s not good if tools are disconnect

LB:
Looking from the tools angle is the wrong angle
looks at the usage and then chose the tools

LG:
If you put a word document inside a wiki it doesn’t work
it’s not the usage of a wiki

SL:
IT is ofen painted as the bad people
They have to be empowered with tools to respond to the business needs

LB:
Often, the easiet thing is to take sharepoint because it is given for free.
But This tool might not be good for the usage
The key is how you prototype the system

Give the possiblities to syndicate in the enterprise informations found on tools in the public Internet.

LG:
Facebook inside clearspace, there going to be a blending
Opening of the firewall is an issue, but it will come anyway

SL:
Even in small compagnie people don’t know each other
=> social network is one solution

BF:
How to you generate the social graph?
ask them to connect to each other?
Watch what they do? (send it, blog, comment)

LB:
you need to give the people immediate payback about their actions
They do something and their profile is enriched

You create social filter
I want information from the people I work with and share interest

80’s crappy management is going to crash with the coming generation people

SL:
Hierachy are not going away
you can collaborate, take inputs but in the end someone has to decide and make clear why they made this choise instead of another

LG:
one keyword for web2.0 is agility
the need of new governance
every one is afraid
The problem is not at the top but for middle management.

The first compagnies to make the right transformation will be the winners on the market

Question from the audience
Knowledge is power, so…

LG:
main blocking point, depens on the culture the problem is quite strong in france
more true for middle management than top

A soution is to show the value of sharing
CEO should agree
Do a pilote, choose the right place to do it
show the result
and you will overcome the issue

LB:
network productivity always trumps individual productivity
Armies and the mafia are becoming networks

Knowledge is power, no
Network is power

The issue is in the middle management

SL:
In social network reputation is going to be important

Question:
All the tools are in sharepoint or IBM products, so IT says the tools are already there, use them, and nothing changes.

LB:
We need to help IT to change, most of them want to work with the cool stuff

Web2.0 expo Berlin: Simon Wardley Commoditisation of IT

Simon a mis en ligne la présentation dont je parlais dans ce billet. A must see.

Simon Wardley Commoditisation of IT

Web2.0 expo Berlin: The impact of mobile Web2.0 on the telecom industry

Great talk by Ajit Jaokar remind me of the paper by Pierre Bellanger: le réseau social: avenir des télécoms

Le synopsis de la conference par le speaker lui-même, les slides

My notes:

Social networks and mobile
What apple and google are doing

Media, Telecom & Internet
It is like tectonic plates, they are comming/clashing together

What Apple is doing?
With the Iphone Apple is making the mobile market pie bigger and they ask the operator do you want a share?

What Google is doing?

Google wants to create a whole new user experience for the user (voir mon billet sur le Gphone)
If the customer is the king the meta-data is King Kong!
=> capture the meta data is key (remind me of the talk on the web of data)

All application are going to be social

Power is moving away from the old elite

The telecom industry does the Ostrich (autruche!)
The youth are talking but they are not necessarily mobile
The youth are reading books but not any books they are reading Facebook !!
Its all about new connection and relashionship
I facebook your mom!!!

It’s getting better or worse depending on your point of view

Everybody wants to get in bed with the customer
The point of contact is the social network

The place of operator in the value chain
DIStributor role are DISintermediated
We don’t need them anymore
The web aggregator replace the distributor/operator

The changing nature of the telecom industry
Web growth is proven
Mobile Web growth is not
Can web2.0 help?

Telecom VS Internet

From Telecom

  • 99% reliability
  • 18 month lead time
  • silo mentality
  • Interoperability not a priority
  • Data apps low priority

To the Internet

  • No unpipe ???
  • Social networks connecting people VS the media industriy
  • Iterative development, converged development
  • Network itself is becoming more important
  • New services without to changes the network
  • Complex but longe tail services VS exisitng simple services with mass demand

Going from specific apps to leveraving assests
• location
• data mining, customer history
• API

Use the web as a platform harness collective intelligence build a database with your user.

Mobile Web2.0 must be define in the context of web2.0

Intelligence can be capture from mobile

Mobile Web2.0 != packaged content (ringtones)

A Harnessing collective intelligence
B The web backbone but not necessarily web protocols end to end
C The PC selcting and configuring service

context + content => share it
Take a picture with your mobile, suggest tag using social network and upload it on flickr
Telecom italia is doing their labs

Ajit ask if there is anyone from Orange in the room… Nobody!
The network is becoming less important
the applications are more important

Google Open

Dans la présentation de Simon qui m’a tellement plus hier sa conclusion était la suivante:

Xaas will grow rapidly with open source standard
It will increase the rate of innovation
More disruption in the informaiton dependant market
This will lead to organisational changes

Et Google est une fantastique force qui pousse les standards open dans tous les domaines. Après google social pour les réseaux sociaux ils viennent d’annoncer Android, le fameux Gphone. A mon sens cette annonce est bien plus importante que open social.

Android n’est pas un téléphone, c’est beaucoup mieux, c’est un OS open source pour téléphone mobile. La brique manquante pour que l’innovation dans les télécoms décolle réellement, si le projet de google réussi, le rêve d’une réelle convergence Internet/téléphone mobile va enfin pouvoir se réaliser. Le web(2.0) tel que nous le connaissons n’existerait pas sans l’open source, l’open source n’existerait pas sans l’internet. La révolution du mobile va pouvoir commencer.

Grâce à Android n’importe qui va pouvoir innover dans le monde du téléphone mobile sans avoir à demander l’autorisation à Nokia ou a France Telecom. Ces acteurs établis n’ont pas intérêt à ce que des innovations remettent en cause leur business modele en cannibalisant certains de leur revenus vache à lait (qui a dit que les forfaits et services de téléphonie mobile étaient trop chers?)

Malheureusement il y a un SI, si Google arrive à imposer sa plateforme. Je serais le supporter N°1, l’Iphone ou le Nokia N95 me laissent de marbre, mais un téléphone google OS open source inside YEEESSSS.
Evidemment Orange et tous les autres opérateurs français sont absent  du projet, pauvre France, pauvre France Telecom qui va se laisser manger tout cru par Apple et son Iphone propriétaire. Marrant il y a 30 ans IBM s’était fait avoir par  Microsoft en leur laissant  l’OS, c’est à dire le lien avec le  client final, les opérateurs télécoms font la même erreur avec l’Iphone.