[Warning: if you are not an identity geek, don’t read] People tend to approach new things by understanding how they relate with what they already know. That’s natural, and that’s also a very effective strategy: however it can only get you so far, and if you don’t start thinking out of the box/venture…
Let me spend few mins to write a lunch time post for giving the solution to yesterday’s riddle, reported below: The three images are in fact instances of a the new super cool technology, dubbed Microsoft Tags. Long story short: you codify something (a message,…
[Update] …did you? 🙂 The trick is simple: the images below are generated via Microsoft Tag technology. For a lenghtier explanation, see http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2009/01/09/microsoft-tags.aspx
Happy Western-new year! Hope you enjoyed your holidays, and that you’re back to work recharged & ready to authenticate/authorize everything in sight 😉 I have a long piece I wrote back in December on my flights to Italy, but that’s pretty long and somewhat philosophical: after the joys of yesterday’s announcements at CES…
This is fantastic news! Dick Hardt, superstar of the internet Identity community, just announced he’ll be joining Microsoft. Besides having followed his work on the Internet, I had the luck of meeting with Dick during last spring’s IIW. He was giving a session about how to decouple users from the risk of losing…
[Dear loyal readers, be warned: this post will contain some identity, but it is more about “pure” architecture & cloud services] On a flight Honolulu-Seattle; vacation is over, and I’m back to sharing with you my wild thoughts (ok, not ALL of my wild thoughts :-)). Have you noticed how people tend to…
Few weeks ago the good guys at the IDPeople magazine interviewed me on the topic of identity & cloud computing: you can access the text online or the pdf here (requires free registration). During IDWorld they also recorded a brief video about my session on the same theme, but I don’t know…
[Disclaimer(): base() { this blog is NOT the source of the official guidance on the Geneva products. Please always check out the Geneva team blog for hearing directly from the product group} ] In the former installment I blabbered a bit about how an STS is a serious matter, and I can almost…
[Disclaimer(): base() { this blog is NOT the source of the official guidance on the Geneva products. Please always check out the Geneva team blog for hearing directly from the product group} ] Few weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting, together with Planky, a TechEd EMEA interactive session on the subject…
It seems it barely started, and TechEd EMEA 2008 is almost done already. Identity is very well represented in this edition. Geneva has 2 booths in the ATE area, which experienced really a lot of traffic: you still have time tomorrow for taking advantage of the experts there (Sam, Sidd, Shiung, Tariq) and…