Identity Management is a real problem facing many firms right now. Most still grapple with it from the perspective of enterprise security, but many are beginning to realize that the security perspective in isolation leads to suboptimal design of collaboration and options for sharing and access. Enter network access policies and directory services. The space continues to grow. Top products are diversifying. Little guidance exists to understand this space and how to manage the tradeoffs inherent in the decisions.

I will be posting more here as I continue to move content to this online site. Here is an interesting tele-opthamology system. Most telemedicine has been in radiology or other 2-dimensionally capturable practices. Rural provision is improving partly due to ability to provide care through technology.

Social networking is a critical necessity in jobs. Of the variety of benefits from social networking, research places retention, satisfaction, productivity, and learning at the core. As workplaces become increasingly digitized workers interact through computer media. In my own work with large systems development projects (teams of 10+, $600,000+/month budget) I have isolated tools and techniques being applied to create "digital water coolers" or spaces for social networking. This is a hot area.

Web 2.0 = power. [For those unlcear on Web 2.0, here is a seminar article.] We see a trend in leveraging the parallel processing capacity of individuals through distributed information management in Wikis and other forms where people can vote and Sites can now dynamically update themselves.

So, the era of bluetooth watches has arrived! Endagaget Story

Here is one that links with your cell phone. Fossil has one out too.