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Oct 31, 2008 Noticias

Now there’s a candidate Bill Clinton could really get behind.

If you’ve written something interesting on your law blog about the upcoming Presidential Election, you might want to send the link to Professor Dan Filler and the law profs at The Faculty Lounge, who are hosting a special election-eve Blawg Review #184.

Here are the Submission Guidelines.

Yes We Carve

Oct 30, 2008 Noticias

Happy Howell-o-ween. The Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin campaigns have gone into “trick or treat” mode in the final days leading up to the Presidential Election next Tuesday. And so have we.

We’re voting for Halloween spirit.

For the Presidential Election in 2008, Professor Dan Filler and the law profs at The Faculty Lounge are presenting an election-eve special Blawg Review #184.

That won’t be the first time we’ve covered elections. We had midterm election issues of Blawg Review #82 at Edward Still’s Votelaw and Blawg Review #83 at Professor Rick Hasen’s Election Law Blog back to back in 2006.

But today, on All Harlow’s Eve, we’ve got a special treat for lovers of law blog carnivals.

JD Supra Widgets Make Content Portable

Oct 30, 2008 Noticias

One of my Stem clients that I’ve previously blogged about is JD Supra, a web 2.0 legal document sharing service. And while I like to show support for all my clients, as a librarian, I’ve always been drawn to this site’s purpose: give content, get noticed. It fits my whole philosophy of using information driven marketing tactics, and for those medium to longer pieces of written discourse that lawyers so often produce, I find the product to be in a class by itself.

This past week, one of the features I’ve really been hoping for finally went live - web widgets. Widgets are important to me for a number of reasons. But mostly as a long time fan of RSS technology, I see them as a final end-product to making content portable.

The same way my Canadian legal publications website is a consumable offering for the latest product releases from legal publishers, JD Supra’s web widgets will give lawyers & law firms an opportunity display their content anywhere they decide to web-publish.

But perhaps the biggest value I see for lawyers, is the ability to create a personal document collection once, and then to automatically re-publish the latest entries from those collections anywhere they see fit. Got a blog? Put it there. Got a lawyer profile on your firm website? Put it there too. Intranets, social networks, association websites, and so on.

Anywhere you represent yourself online, you’re a cut & paste of a small piece of code away from dynamically inserting your latest publications and documents. It’s an easy way of adding professional context, and best of all - it’s completely automated! Once your widgets are in place, you’ve created a personal (& professional) syndication network that will automatically display your latest work product.

For me, that’s an awesome capability to be able to leverage for clients. And for lawyers, that’s simply working smart.

Congrats to everyone JD Supra for getting this new feature launched. Way to build the vision!

Moving another step closer to single-sign on

Oct 30, 2008 Noticias

By Eric Sachs, Google Security Team

Yesterday we announced one step we took to help increase adoption of single-sign on across websites on the Internet. For more details, you can watch today’s episode of thesocialweb.tv which covers the launch. While we announced that we would initially provide limited access to our OpenID IDP to make sure it was working properly, we were delighted to see that the number of sites that registered to receive access was significantly more than we had expected. So instead of having our engineers spend time manually maintaining that list of registered sites, we are now taking another step further and removing that restriction so any site can use the API.

That registration requirement also led to some confusion because users wanted to be able to use existing websites that accept OpenID 2.0 compliant logins by simply entering “gmail.com” (or in some cases their full E-mail address) into the login boxes on those websites. Normally what would happen after a user typed gmail.com is that the relying party website would look for a special type of file (XRDS) on the gmail.com servers that would check if Gmail run an OpenID identity provider. For yesterday’s launch, we specifically chose not to publish that special XRDS file on gmail.com because if we had published the file, users would have received an error at Google if the website they were trying to log into had not registered with us. Now that we have removed the registration requirement, we will work on pushing that XRDS file as quickly as possible. Once the XRDS file is live, end-users should be able to use the service by typing gmail.com in the OpenID field of any login box that supports OpenID 2.0, similar to how Yahoo users can type yahoo.com or their Yahoo E-mail address. (In the meantime, if you feel really geeky, you can type “https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id” into an OpenID 2.0 compliant login box and see the directed identity workflow in action.)

However, as we we noted in the Designing a Login User Interface section of our documentation, we do not place any requirements on the design of a federated login box on a relying party website. There are many approaches used by websites today, and the community is still experimenting with new approaches.

One other question that a lot of people asked yesterday is when a large provider like Google will become a relying party. There is one big problem that stands in the way of doing that, but fortunately it is more of a technology problem than a usability issue. That problem is that rich-client apps (desktop apps and mobile apps) are hard-coded to ask a user for their username and password. As an example, all Google rich-client apps would break if we supported federated login for our consumer users, and in fact they do break for the large number of our enterprise E-mail outsourcing customers who run their own identity provider, and for which Google is a relying party today. This problem with rich-client apps also affects other sites like Plaxo who are already relying parties.

Google is committed to working on this problem. If community members also want to help in this area, please take a look at our research on combining rich-client apps with federated login which was discussed at the recent UX summit and discussed further in a blog post here. A key thing to notice is that this research is about another open source technology called OAuth, and is agnostic to the particular federated login technology used, i.e. SAML or OpenID. It is also agnostic to the type of strong authentication method (if any) that is used to authenticate the user.

To further increase the adoption of federated login, we need standard open-source components on as many platforms as possible to enable those rich-client apps to support OAuth. That includes a lot more platforms then just Windows and Mac. The harder part is mobile devices (Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone, and yes even Android), and other Internet connected devices like Tivos, Apple TVs, Playstations, etc. that have rich-client apps that ask users for their passwords to access services like Youtube, Google photos, etc. If the community works together to build these components, they will be useful not only to Google, but also to any other relying parties that have rich-client apps or that expose APIs, and it will also help enterprise SaaS vendors like Salesforce.

If you want to help further these efforts, join the OpenID and OAuth mailing lists and tell people which platform you are targeting in case others want to help. For example, Mike Malone from Pownce did some work a few months ago to use OAuth on an iPhone and described how he got it working. And just yesterday another member of the open source community, Sean Sullivan, built a working OAuth enabled rich-client app for Android and posted the open source code.

Quickscribe Manual Update for October

Oct 30, 2008 Noticias

The BC Labour Legislation Manual was the only Quickscribe update for October.

For daily updates to the statutes and regulations of British Columbia, visit BCLegislation.ca.

Stock Picks and Trade Ideas for Thursday - PG, FSLR, GE

Oct 30, 2008 Noticias

During this year we saw a sharp deterioration of conditions in financial markets. In a global economy, based on complex connections between different markets, the absence of a solid financial system will bring inevitable setbacks in the growth of the real economy. In fact, the current market condition makes the IMF’s forecasts a sharp slowdown in the global economy for 2009, particularly in advanced economies, like US. In consequence of this economical environment, the IMF predicts a slowdown of the U.S. economy from 1.6% in 2008 to 0.1% in 2009. The growth of the U.S. economy was supported in the first half by the contribution of net external demand and consumption, the result of the devaluation of the dollar and the tax checks sent to families. The blurring of the effects of tax checks and reversing the trend of the dollar and the hard conditions of access to credit will lead to a sharp deceleration of the economy in coming quarters, and it is not ruled out the possibility of contraction. The beginning of the recovery of the real estate sector, although weak in the second half of 2009, should lead to a moderate recovery of the economy. We should keep in mind; the recovery of the economies after the crisis in the banking system is slower than the other crisis, because the result of the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy sometimes takes some times to become well successful. As a matter of fact, the market might gain some fuel just on the second half of 2009 or even only in the start of 2010.

Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge )

GE - The stock failed to make headway on the upside after has broken the falling wedge. While the near-term trend appears positive, only a close above $20 would impart positive trend and would push the stock into a short-term bull trend.

Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge )

Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge )

Google moves towards single sign-on with OpenID

Oct 29, 2008 Noticias

By Eric Sachs, Google Security Team

Currently users are required to create individual passwords for many websites they visit, but users would prefer to avoid this step so they could visits websites more easily. Similarly, many websites on the Internet have asked for a way to enable users to log into their sites without forcing them to create another password. If users could log into sites without needing another password, it would allow websites to provide a more personalized experience to their users.

In September we announced some research that we shared as part of an effort by the OpenID community to evaluate the user experience of federated login. Other companies like Yahoo have also published their user research. Starting today, we are providing limited access to an API for an OpenID identity provider that is based on the user experience research of the OpenID community. Websites can now allow Google Account users to login to their website by using the OpenID protocol. We hope the continued evolution of both the technical features of OpenID, as well as the improvements in user experience. will lead to a solution that can be widely deployed for federated login. One of the companies using this new service is www.zoho.com. Raju Vegesna at ZoHo says that “We now offer all our users the ability to login to ZoHo using their Google Account to avoid the need to create yet another login and password.”

The initial version of the API will use the OpenID 2.0 protocol to enable websites to validate the identity of a Google Account user, including the optional ability to request the user’s e-mail address. Below is an example of the flow that a user might see if he or she starts at a website that uses this new feature:

The website could use a modified login box that looks like the one below. If the user enters a Gmail address and indicates that he or she does not have a password for this site, then the site can redirect him or her to Google.

The user would then be taken to the Google website and asked to confirm whether he or she wants to sign in to KidMallPics.

Finally, the user would be redirected back to KidMallPics, where he or she would be immediately signed in.

More information about this new API can be found on the Open ID page in Google Code. To request access to the limited trial, please visit our Google Federated Login discussion group and register using the online registration form.

Google is also working with the open source community on ways to combine the OAuth and OpenID protocol in the future. That way a website can not only request the user’s identity and e-mail address, but can also request access to information available via OAuth-enabled APIs such as Google Data APIs as well as standard data formats such as Portable Contacts and OpenSocial REST APIs. In the future, this should allow a website to immediately provide a much more streamlined, personalized and socially relevant experience for users when they log in to trusted websites.

King Island Dairy Double Brie

Oct 29, 2008 Noticias

It’s that time of year when you seem to do a lot more entertaining and cheese is usually on the menu.

Stock Picks and Trade Ideas for Wednesday - AAPL, RIMM, GOOG

Oct 28, 2008 Noticias

Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge )

Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge )

RIMM - Research in Motion has recovered from its earlier low of $40.21. The current rally should at least push the stock to $50.22 per share where the major resistance is. The stock needs to close above this level to indicate a continuation of the rally off this month’s low of $40.21. If this rally fails, there’s downside risk to support around $41.19.

Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge )

Disclaimer : Trading stocks involves risk, this information should not be viewed as trading recommendations.The charts provided here are not meant for investment purposes and only serve as technical examples.

BC Supreme Court: Linking is not republication

Oct 28, 2008 Noticias

Michael Geist directs our attention to yesterday’s decision of Crookes v. Wikimedia Foundation Inc.,2008 BCSC 1424, where the BC Supreme Court ruled that online linking to allegedly defamatory materials does not amount to republication.

Barbara at law.librarians also points us to an article at international law firm Pinsent Mason’s blog Out-Law, which discusses the Crookes decision and how other countries have dealt with similar cases.