The world of analytics continues to evolve from basic traffic stats to more behavioral indicators. Well, enter the newest of analytics...Sentiment Analysis. With all of the user-participation online with ratings, comments, and so on, there is a wealth of "feelings" about brands and products online.  Some companies have begun to analyze this data to get a sense of how people feel about a movie, a product, or a company. While there is still some limitations about how the technology tr ...

A paradigm shift is underway for how .NET solution developers work with identity and authentication. The shift is not only in the tools and recommended design patterns for validating user identity (authentication) and managing role-based permissions for what a user is allowed to do (authorization). While many of the seeds and shoots for this change have been underway for some time, critical mass is near.   The paradigm shift is from a domain-based orientation to a claims-based orientation. ...