MIX time

Next week I’ll be at Mix. If you want to discuss about WS-*, Infocard, WinFx or any of the crazy things I write here come to find me! As the picture on the left shows, I’m sure you will not have problems to recognize my hairy figure [:)]

Peer Authentication

The p2p capabilities in Vista and WCF are going to have a HUGE impact. The chance of leveraging physical proximity for setting up spontaneous meshes is truly mind boggling: imagine what you could do by walking in a crowded waiting room, on a train, in a hotel lobby, at Starbucks… even when you’re…

Claim based elevator

I was going around the hotel before dawn, searching for food (damn jet lag)… and I’ve noticed that the hotel elevator is claim based! If you swipe your room key on the switchboard, it brings you to to you floor: and before you dismiss it as the ultimate laziness enabler, consider that here…

Blogs can townitize!

See, my home town is a wonderful small place on the north coast; in t he summer it’s impossible to find parking, and there’s an incredible mess of turists, however in the wintertime the population is around just 5000 souls. In that environment you grow knowing and being known by everybody (especially if…

How Infocard prevents phishing, in practice

I recently had a hot debate about how Infocard prevents phising; now everytime I see the “What’s in your wallet?” commercial the arguments come back in mind, so I guess the only way to break free from them is going again through it. So here it’s how it goes [:)] Disclaimer: for extensive coverage of Infocard and the Identity Metasystem,…

WS-Plate

WS-Plate

Ahhh, finally. Getting a personalized plate was one of the things I was looking for when I relocated to the States.. and in record time, I got one which pays homage to one of my biggest passions! [:)]