On a recent trip out of town, while waiting in the Phoenix airport to board my flight, I suddenly become aware that I had really used a lot of apps on my iPhone that morning. So I counted the ones I had used – all 15 of them – before 10am.

1. Mail
2. Phone
3. iPod
4. Safari
5. Messages
6. Calendar
7. Toodledo
8. Evernote
9. Tweetie
10. Facebook
11. Brightkite
12. Livestrong
13. AP Mobile
14. Weather Channel
15. Tripit

I went on to use some more apps later in the day, but this all goes to prove that the iPhone has become an indispensible part of my life – helping me be more productive, connected and responsive to the people in my life.

What apps are a critical part of your everyday life?

When he learned I would be re-joining Oracle after my time at Sun Microsystems, my son suggested that I take a drive down Oracle Street in Mesa, Arizona, to celebrate.  It is a small street with a big name, located about a mile from my house.  Here is evidence that I took the trip.

To support recent discussions about Identity Management and Cloud computing, I divided the types of Identity Services that might be needed to support Application services into three major categories as shown in the following diagram and explained in a bit more detail below:

The specific services provided in each category could include:

Identity Administration Services

• Create, update, delete identities
• Password/credential management
• Entitlement definition/management
• Provision/de-provision access privileges
• Role engineering/management
• Policy definition/management

Identity Enforcement Services

• Authentication
• Authorization
• Access control
• Federation
• Web services security

Identity Audit Services

• Reporting
• Evaluation
• Attestation
• Validation
• Remediation

Did I miss any services that you think should be present?  Any input on the categories or types of services?  Any input or criticism would be most welcome.