 | | | | Not giving a hoot about 'user centric'
|  By Dave Kearns
I trust everyone made it through the holiday season reasonably well. Now it's time to get to the "prediction season," when all the pundits try to fashion a prognostication that's a little over the top but still has a chance of occurring. I'll get to my predictions next week, right now I'd like to offer one from my friend at Digital ID World, Eric Norlin, who believes that in 2008 "'user-centric' identity protocols will stop calling themselves 'user-centric'." Read full story Dave Kearns is the editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management as well as a consultant to both vendors and users of IdM technologies. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Complete Guide to eDirectory." His other musings can be found at the Virtual Quill, an Internet publisher which provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail. Comments to this newsletter can be e-mailed to Dave here. MORE STORIES | | | | | | |
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