Identity finally has its very own home on Channel9 : today we are launching a new show and a new topic area, both under the title “ The Id Element ”. As the introductory page recites: Welcome to The Id Element , your one-stop shop for all things identity...

Interesting discussion going on on Chris’ blog about OpenID & usability. There are many aspects I’d like to discuss, but it’s 11:34pm and “tomorrow” I have a conference call at 7:00am (sometimes the fact that the Earth is round DOES suck: sorry, Cristoforo...

I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally have something like the Geneva Framework available. With something that takes care of all the nitty-gritty details of the underlying protocol legwork, I am finally free to describe the advantages of the claims...

  Developing secure applications and providing a hosting service often provide seemingly contrasting requirements. In order to secure communications you take advantage of protected resources, such as private keys; but when you offer a hosting service...

March came and went, bringing us a new CTP of the .NET Services SDK and a lot of news for Windows Azure & SQL Services. Today we released an updated version of the Azure Services Training Kit and one updated version of the Azure Services Management...

It’s that time of the year again. I am sitting at the gate in SeaTac, waiting to board the flight for sunny S.Francisco where the RSA conference is held. The expo area is, as always, a kaleidoscope of companies & products: luckily there’s the floor...

Last Thursday we launched The Id Element, our new Channel9 show about all things Identity: we are amazed by the views we got in such short time (over 14K for the 2 videos combined already!), and we hope we’ll deserve your trust by delivering quality content...

This post contains no special considerations or insights, and is just meant to provide a base for the post here . If you are familiar with ASP.NET membership, DON’T READ THIS and go straight here . This is just a walkthrough which helps you to create...

If you always wondered what is it like to attend IDWORLD, now you have a nice chance to get a taste of it. Back in November the guys at wisemedia recorded brief interviews with 20some speakers and made them available at http://www.idworldonline.com/index...

This year I finally have a chance of attending the European Identity Conference in Munich. I would have been already delighted to go there just as attendee, the lineup of speakers is phenomenal and the chances of good networking appear really promising...

One more week has passed, and The Id Element show on Channel9 reached a whopping 56K combined views. That’s awesome, especially considering that we were expecting all eyes on RSA (speaking of which, check out Scott’s keynote : highly recommended). This...