I have been following along with the Identity story for some time now.
Cardspace as an Identity selector supports two basic models;

Self-Issued Cards in which essentially you act as your own security token service and
Managed cards – in which a trusted third party acts as Identity Provider making assertions around your identity.

I have seen many examples leveraging self-issued cards but relatively few incorporating managed cards. There is a sample STS available on the http://cardspace.netfx3.com website but due to the complex nature of it I’ve found …

With baseball’s big show kicking off tomorrow it’s a good time to go back and review the Yogiisms [LINK].
My personal favourite:
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future but my personal prediction: Whoever wins game 1 will win the series.

Congratulations to Nova Spivack and the team over at Radar Networks who recently launched the beta of their knowledge management tool "Twine" [LINK].
Twine aims to be the first main-stream application built on the Semantic Web whereby data is not just indexed and cataloged but converted into machine-readable form. The result is a graph of data on which inferences can be made and relationships built. Ultimately the goal is to better understand the data and draw new conclusions from it that otherwise would go unnoticed. The whole surpasses the sum …

Everything’s connected.
Disney released the classic animated movie "The Jungle Book" this week on DVD. Our kids are of course glued to it these past few days. Ethan in particular likes to stand to attention and shout out "Bagheerrrraaaaaaa" at the top of his lungs.
Anyway, it may not be common knowledge but Rudyard Kipling was the author of the original Jungle Book which is a collection of short stories, the first in the book being the story of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Jungle.
In my …

Before I forget; Today I took a call with Olga Kharif from BusinessWeek [LINK]. She’s doing a piece on social networking and Google, specifically Orkut. I doubt I’ll be quoted but will watch out for the article in any case. Here’s a link to the last time [LINK] I was interviewed by her colleague Robert Hof [LINK].