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Jon Udell recently launched a new interesting format on the website perspectives.on10.net. Perspectives is a series of in-depth conversations with passionate innovators. Most work for Microsoft; some work elsewhere; all are advancing the state of the art in areas as diverse as robotics, digital identity, e-science, and social software. Information technology is the common thread, and Perspectives appeals to the technically-minded, but the show also aims to tell stories in ways that make sense to a wider audience. Each installment of Perspectives is delivered as an audio podcast, and supplemented by a partial text transcript. The first episode was an interview with two guys from the Robotics Studio team, Tandy Trower and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen. The quality of the interview is clearly top notch, the scope of the topics strategic & forward looking but still solidly rooted in technology: Jon's editing makes things flow beautifully, and the transcript is incredibly handy for speed readers & search engines. In short, I LOVE IT :-) Hence, it is with ill-concealed pride that I announce the subject of the second episode : it is a chat I had with Jon back in December , just days before the book came out. The casus belli was the book itself, that Jon was so kind to read in prerelease version, but we ended up talking about identity on a much wider sense. We touched on certificates versus managed cards, omnidirectional vs unidirectional identities, WS-*, openID... Jon is a *great interviewer*, Read More...
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Last week Caleb and I have been surprised in my office by Charles "Carlo" Torre and his camera. The result is an impromptu interview about CardSpace , which is currently on the front page of Channel9 (direct link here ). If you have time, take a look… we laugh a lot, but we manage to make some serious point here and there :-) and of course we mention the book , which is even on the "front frame". I have to remark that I am *always* amazed by Carlo 's skills as interviewer. He provides a fresh perspective, making the right questions, and yet he discreetly blends giving space to who is interviewed to make his point with his own personal style. And he's not afraid to put you in the spot and ask tough questions... he really takes the part of the audience. Carlo, it's always a pleasure to chat with you :-) Read More...
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Ah, the beauty of models. A good model can capture the essence of a system, a phenomenon, anything: it allows you to easily manipulate things, make predictions, transport the knowledge you already have of a domain to a new one. It's just great, and as we will disclose more things about Oslo I am sure you'll have chance to experience this thing first hand. For the time being, let me dig a bit on a model factory we know very well: the identity metasystem. Back in November, during my EU tour , I had a great discussion with a policy maker: this person has an amazing understanding of the identity metasystem, a deep knowledge of the eID landscape, made all the right questions, he was just a pleasure to converse with. At a certain point he described how they were currently dealing with the problem of transporting in application form a very complex scenario, already tamed from the analytic & regulatory perspective. That prompted me to express a thought about how the identity metasystem could have helped there, and I was surprised by how well received that thought was: he told me he never heard things explained from that point of view, so I thought there could be some value in repeating that here. One of the powers of the identity metasystem, and its architectural backbone WS-*, is that it gives you the tools for describing the relevant aspects of existing relationships: who is affiliated with whom, what are the information an entity needs for making business with somebody, what the Read More...
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On the Paris-Seattle flight, coming back after 2 weeks spent stuffing myself with all sorts of food with the excuse "after all, you can't find this in USA" :) Before hurling myself back in the vortex of daily work, and celebrate the end of the year with something crazy, I want to take some time writing down some hallucinatory (=vision without execution) thoughts about omnidirectional identities . Be warned, this may be just pointless rambling at this point. Few weeks ago I chatted about this in front of a microphone with John Udell , digressing along a crazy tangent instead of answering his questions about the book (I eventually came back to Earth and answered properly :)). I don't know if he'll deem those fragments publication worthy, but just in case I'll make a brain dump here. It's not that there's much more to do in this small seat anyway (just finished the latest Eco . He didn't mention underbite at all, I'm happy). Looking back at the activities related to identity in the past year, I am glad to report that amazing progress has been done. Something that makes 2007 very different from 2006 is the kind of work that was made: in 2007 the accent was on execution. The vision behind the metasystem is still being explored, sure, like Kim's series on linkage or the discussions about display token and first law demonstrate; and I feel that conjugating the metasystem and claims in enterprise environment is an area that still need focus (especially in fighting old forma mentis that Read More...
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In this post I am going to show you an example of CardSpace and an Office application working together. I know, I still owe you part II of the STS walkthrough ; however I delayed this post for months , and I promised I would have done it this long weekend so I can't really skip it this time. I will write the part II of the STS post in the next days. I don't know about you, but I spend a lot of time working with Office applications: Outlook & Word above all, but also OneNote, Excel... and they are really great. Typically I get data in and out of office by alt-tabbing through other apps, typically the browser. For example: how many times did you fiddle with cut&paste for inserting data from your Internet banking app to an Excel document of yours? Sure, many home banking websites offer you to export data in Money or Quicken format, sometime even in plain CSV; but wouldn't it be great to be able to access the data directly while you're working in Excel itself? Of course, we would not want to trade ease of use with security: importing data should be convenient, no doubts about it, but it should also guarantee levels of security proportionate to the sensitivity of the data handled. Sounds like a good example scenario: let's build around it. Let's assume that the website of our bank is ahead of the curve and allows its customers to sign in with personal cards for performing some simple, read-only operations (such as giving the list of all your accounts or the list of movements Read More...
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