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“In a networked world where everything is just a node, the individual is often the natural place for information and control to pivot around.” – Keith Hopper, from the comments here.

Lots of folks have looked at integrating online identities, and there are various types of “single sign-on” (cite) systems around.  Thought experiment for today:  what would single sign-off look like?  In other words, what would happen if an individual had the ability to conceptually “unplug” from the Network?

Network Age Briefing:  Privacy and Data Security in the Network Age Noon EDT / 9am PDT (60min) Wednesday, November 4 (347) 945-6578 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/superno... Can we still have “privacy” in the Network Age?  How do individuals, as well as services such as Craigslist, Facebook and Twitter, protect themselves and their information online?  What can we do about it, if anything?  Join us on November 4 to discuss “Privacy and Data Security in the Network Age” with noted expert Samir Jain. About Samir Jain: Samir Jain is a partner in the Communications, Privacy, and Internet Law group at WilmerHale, where his practice involves litigation, regulatory work, and counseling on a wide range of cutting-edge e-commerce, privacy, and communications issues. His areas of expertise include online intermediary liability…

Rarely do we (downstate) New Yorkers look towards our Capitol in Albany for technology innovation. However, with the changes in government this past year, we’ve started to hear about a shift in systems for the better. The Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller noted this back in June in “Grace and Brilliance Under Fire in Albany,” writing about NY State Senate chief information officer Andrew Hoppin and his team. Hoppin and his team also came to the 7o0 person NY Tech Meetup in June to discuss their plans with the NYC tech community as a whole. At the recent Yahoo! Open Hack Day in New York, I got to sit down with Noel “NoNeck” Hildago who works with Hoppin as Director of Innovation and…

Why Ariel Waldman is going to Supervova (from here): “[Supernova is a] conference about “understanding how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world”. From web privacy to web standards, Supernova is great about booking speakers who not only live and breathe the issues they’re discussing, but actively fight for the progress of them in their daily life. Here’s a few people and talks I’m looking forward to from the current line-up: Speakers: • Marko Ahtisaari (Dopplr) • Kevin Bankston (Electronic Frontier Foundation) • Danah Boyd (Microsoft Research) Talks: • Social Networks in the Workplace (definitely a talk that’s of personal interest due to my experiences at NASA) • Updating Copyright Law: A Fair (Use) Fight? (Jason Schultz gave a *great* panel discussion on this topic at SXSW titled…

Professor Eric Clemons is no stranger to online controversy. His recent posts on the popular TechCrunch blog have generated hundreds of angry comments when he talked about the failure of online advertising. He was even thrown into a “Steel Cage Death Match” debate on the future of online advertising with SearchEngineLand editor Danny Sullivan. But what Eric and I discussed is a further fleshing out of his March, 2009 post about a Theoretical (and fictional as far as we know) anti-trust case that could be brought against Google. In our talk, Eric describes how a top provider of services, the mid 1980s American Airlines’ Sabre and United Airlines’ Apollo computerized reservations systems, is like Google as the top provider of both search…

Network Age Briefing:  Google App Strategy in the Network Age Noon EDT / 9am PDT (60min) Thursday, October 29 (347) 945-6578 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/superno... For this week’s Supernova Network Age briefing, we’ll be speaking with Google’s Bradley Horowitz about how business and personal productivity applications are changing in the Network Age.  Why types of solutions lend themselves to being either highly networked, or delivered over the network?  What types of organizations are embracing web-based applications for their critical infrastructure — and what are the points of resistance? About Bradley Horowitz: Bradley oversees product management for Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Docs, Blogger and Picasa. Before joining Google, Bradley led Yahoo’s advanced development division, which developed new products such as Yahoo! Pipes, and…

My name is Adam Greenfield, and I currently work for Nokia in Helsinki, Finland, as head of design direction for service and user interface design. For the past ten years, I’ve worked in the field of user experience – which is to say, at the intersection between ordinary, everyday people, their perceptions, expectations and desires, and the information-technological artifacts that increasingly populate their lives. At first, this meant discrete things like Web sites and mobile devices, but as early as 2001 I began to develop an interest in ubiquitous computing: what happens when information-processing power begins to evaporate from these discrete boxes we think of as “computers,” and instead takes up residence in the myriad ordinary objects and surfaces around us.…

By, the way, good-friend-of-Supernova Heather Gold will be holding a workshop on “Unpresenting” on November 30. Here are the details: For the first time, comedian Heather Gold (npr, SXSWi veteran, Apple) is teaching her unique interactive performance approach to a limited number of participants in a day-long, hands-on workshop. You’ll learn the emotional mechanics that let you create quick intimacy. Go from talking TO a large group of people to talking WITH them. You already know how to have a great conversation with one person. Learn how to transform your presentations into conversations. Participants will structure and lead a conversation and receive critique and guidance from Heather. Who should come • Anyone who gives presentations or runs meetings and wants to energize and engage everyone…

It's no longer the distinction between management and rank-and-file that makes sense in a service-dominated economy, if it ever did in a manufacturing dominated world, but the quality of performance along the scale of creativity and actual contribution.

Energy Policy in the Network Age Briefing 1pm EDT / 10am PDT (60min) Thursday, October 22 (347) 945-6578 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/superno... This week’s Supernova Network Age Briefing will feature Scott Blake Harris, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy. This is a chance to ask questions first-hand about topics as far ranging as current “Smart Grid” efforts, how technology is changing our thinking about carbon sequestration and nuclear energy, and how cybersecurity intersects with our country’s energy policy. About our guest: Scott Blake Harris is the General Counsel of the Department of Energy. He was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in March, and was confirmed by the United States Senate in May, 2009. Mr. Harris has practiced law in Washington D.C. for…