In short: Gianpaolo presents a daring proposition about a deregulated IT. I believe that GP’s idea is a very valid one. In the post below I explore the implications of a world where consumerism is brought to the extremes of IT deregulation: in such a world user centric identity management and user control/consent are key enabling aspects…
Dear loyal reader. Are you tired of my issues with English tenses or my heavy Italian accent, but still interested in CardSpace? My good friend Richard Turner has the right balm for your Broca’s area: a couple of screencasts, a base CardSpace walkthrough and an II7 & CardSpace configuration drilldown, delivered with the impeccable style…
During my visit in Singapore few weeks ago I had the pleasure to meet with Mr Hedirman Supian, reporter for the newspaper Today (also mentioned in Wikipedia). We spent a nice hour discussing about identity management and CardSpace: to my great joy, last Tuesday the interview was published. Thank you, that looks great!Today…
In short: I wrote an article about electronic IDs (eID), the Identity Metasystem and WIndows CardSpace. It appeared on the Global IDentification journal, you can access it on the jounal website. If you check it out, please let me know what you think 🙂 Now that we nailed the facts, let me give you…
At the Novel Brainshare conference something awesome happened. I absolutely urge to check out the entire Dale Old’s post on the subject, however the following fragment should give you some measure of how important that event is (I added the bold): So what Baber showed in the demo: A fully functional, native infocard selector…
John Backus is one of the first names I’ve heard, back at the times of the university. He’s the guy who came out with the Backus-Naur form, that you may remember under the acronym BNF. He also got a National Medal of Science and a Turing Award: we are talking about a PILLAR of…
I LOVE Wired. It’s the only magazine I read on regular basis (every issue, actually) for which I DON’T have a subscription. That would deprive me from the pleasure of buying it as soon as I spot it on the shelf, thing that happen with other magazines (I am subscribed to Business2.0: when…
Dear readers, it’s with great pleasure that I announce that Garrett, Caleb and I are writing a book about CardSpace! Garrett and Caleb have the insight that you can get only after years spent INSIDE the product, while I hope that my experience with customers and super early adopters will be of service…
During this week in Singapore I visited many enterprise customers, and of course when you talk about WCF/WF/CardSpace the three letter word that begins with “S” and ends in “OA” eventually come up. For enphatizing my position “SOA is an Architecture, not a product” I adapted an old joke (is it an Italian joke?…
Orcas is finally out 🙂 Matt gives a superbly detailed intro to the new features in this post. Today I had a chance to showcase some of the new Orcas features to a nice audience here in Singapore, specifically the syndication & web capabilities and the awesome workflow services. I believe it was the…