2:35AM. I landed few hours ago in Seattle, back from a successful week in Kuala Lumpur & Singapore , and of course I am totally jetlagged and I can't sleep at all. Hence I'll kill some time writing the customarily post I do every April for this feed...

On a flight between Seattle and Tokyo. I've just put down The Big Switch , and decided it's time to write about cloud computing and how identity management is going to play a key role for the success of the new paradigm. As you go though this post, please...

Before presenting in a country I never visited I always try to read about the local culture and understand the basic do's and don'ts. Besides being IMHO a basic form of respect for your hosts, this helps you avoiding VERY embarrassing situations that...

Well, I really really enjoyed going to RSA. As I foresaw, more than the event itself I really appreciated the chance of meeting with very smart people: the Concordia and the OSIS events were truly exceptional in this sense. Axel captured some of that...

The Cardspace landing page on MSDN has now a reference (link at the very top) to a PDF copy of the chapter 2 of " Understanding Windows CardSpace ", which features the series layout for side comments & perspective boxes (mentioned here ). Thanks to...

On the 23rd I'll be in Singapore, practically my third home, and will present at the Singapore's Regional Architect Forum (the famous RAF). There is something in that country that charmed me already during my first visit in '89, and every time I have...

In a couple of weeks I'll be in Kuala Lumpur, at the IASA's IT Architect Regional Forum Conference ; I will present on identity in the context of S+S and cloud services, which happens to be the topic that intrigues me the most nowadays. I am really excited...

Few weeks ago Caleb and I had a nice phone interview with Jack Vaughan, during which we gave a short intro to CardSpace and mentioned the book ; the result is a 6 mins podcast (available here ). Thanks Jack & SearchWinDevelopment !

Well, well, well. I was strolling trough the vendor booths at the RSA exposition (which, by the way, is really very interesting) when my eyes were caught by a peculiar scene: [snip] Yes, it is what it seems: a username & password pair on a PostIT...

After a remarkably quiet flight I landed in S.Francisco: the city of the Golden Gate , the Italian consulate and the theater of this year's RSA conference . I just unloaded on the bed all the swag from the conference bag (very original BTW, love the Turing...

I am delighted to announce a slight change in my role: from now on I'll focus on identity architecture, especially in the context of S+S and cloud services. YEEEEEES!!! If you are a regular reader of this blog you may have gotten the impression it was...