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Sunday, April 27, 2008 3:31 AM

5 years of blogging

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's
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 12:59 AM

Cloud Computing and Identity

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
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:50 AM

Evangelizing the Identity Metasystem in culture-conscious fashion

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
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Monday, April 14, 2008 1:11 AM

RSA Wrapup

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
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:18 PM

The PDF of Chapter 2 is on MSDN

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
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Friday, April 11, 2008 12:09 AM

April the 23rd: session & chalktalk at the Singapore's Regional Architects Forum

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
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Friday, April 11, 2008 12:07 AM

April the 22nd: session at the IASA IT Architect Regional Conference in Kuala Lumpur

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
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:45 AM

Podcast on "Understanding Windows CardSpace" at SearchWinDevelopment.com

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 !
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:43 AM

Passwords on PostIt... on the floor of the RSA expo :-)

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!
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 8:38 PM

Book Signing at RSA

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
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:40 AM

(Re)Focusing

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
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