Feds Join Liberty Alliance, But Group Still Needs More Support

“Users will appreciate the added convenience of logging into multiple sites at once, but not at the price of more spam or invasions of their privacy,” Jason Bloomberg, analyst for market researcher ZapThink LLC, said in a research note.

Read more at: TechWeb

Recruiting WS-I Members from Vertical Industries

You joined the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization to accelerate and encourage the adoption of Web services. WS-I plans to meet these goals by providing deliverables that assist in the interoperability of Web services implementations. For the WS-I to be successful in its mission, however, it is essential that it has broad industry representation within its membership. WS-I needs your help.

At this time, a vast majority of WS-I members are IT vendors. Whether you work for a vendor or not, it’s in your company’s best interest to expand the WS-I membership, expecially among industry members outside the IT community. This white paper is an important tool to help you in this important activity.

This paper seeks to explain why current WS-I members should recruit additional industry members, why industry members should join the WS-I, and what actions WS-I members should take to recruit new members. It should be a starting point for ideas about how you can help the WS-I grow and become more effective in achieving its goals.

Network Identity: Decision Time

Leave it to Microsoft to stretch the definition on what standards-based technology really means.

“TrustBridge only supports companies using Kerberos,” explains Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink, “which is the encryption technology heavily favored by Microsoft.”

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“Google: A trailblazer for Web services?”

“It’s something that’s widely available, in production, and the general public seems to like it,” ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer said. “Google has definitely energized a lot of forces.”

Read more at: ZDNet

“Search for Web services leads to Google”

“No one has caught the attention of developers the way Google has,” said Jason Bloomberg, analyst with industry consultants ZapThink.

Read more at: CNet News.Com

ZapNote: PRISM

As companies increasingly partner and syndicate their content to other locations, the need to locate, reuse, and repurpose content in different forms and in real-time is becoming increasingly important. Today, repurposing consists mostly of cutting and pasting different content components. This simplistic mechanism has been the main way of accomplishing this goal not out of efficiency but out of necessity — there simply are no reliable ways to automatically retrieve, aggregate, and reuse similar types of content. One of the efforts to solve these publishing issues is the Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) Working Group, which seeks to provide an extensible XML metadata standard for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposing content in both traditional and electronic publishing contexts.