OpenID: Distributed Identity Systems

I love the idea of having a distributed identity system. Check out OpenID's site. I love the attitude they have towards nobody owning or licensing or requiring money, etc. to make this work.

Internet Explorer 7 Released

The long awaited IE7 is here. I know I'm a few days behind but download it and check it out. I've been running the Release Candidate 1 for a few months and am getting used to it. I especially like opening new windows with the mouse wheel and closing windows with the same. The new RSS platform is really exciting for developers as well as users. I'm hoping I can tap into this technology soon for my web site users at work.

Federated Identity Authentication with ADFS

That just sounds cool... But it appears that it might work really cool too! Take a look at Keith Brown's article Single Sign-On -- A Developer's Introduction To Active Directory Federation Services. This is more of a business to business idea but I think it could work internal to a company as well. I'm always looking for ways to leverage single sign-on capabilities. Everyone hates typing their password in 20 times a day which is about how often I do. I'm glad people continue to innovate in this area.