CardSpace: frequent flyer programs, or Federation for the Masses

The idea of federation usually conjures images of enterprise partnerships, people in blue suites (and short hair!) shaking hands, corporate portals of unmistakable extranet taste, and so on… the famous federnet I was mentioning some posts ago. Some months ago I was discussing with my good friend Garrett about an example of federation…

CardSpace Sandbox!

You asked for it, we made it πŸ™‚ I’m just back from vacation, and on the first day or work 1) we released the July CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0, in which CardSpace bits work beautifully and 2) the NetFx3 community website opened a sandbox where you can experiment with your selfissued information…

Infocard->Windows CardSpace

I was sentimentally attached to the name “Infocard”, as I was to “Indigo” and “Avalon”… but I’ve to say that I love the name CardSpace! The acronym (WCS) sounds even familiar, now that I have learned to pronounce all those W-consonant-consonant. [:)] Check out the announcement of the new name on Somasegar blog.Ah, I was…