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August CTO Breakfast at UTOSC
A few days ago I said that we wouldn't be holding a CTO breakfast in August. I was wrong. In fact, we'll be holding the breakfast on August 28 in conjunction with the Utah Open Source Conference at Salt... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 17, 2008 9:45 AM
CTO Breakfast on Friday
We're doing the July CTO breakfast a little early this month because of Pioneer day. For those of you not familiar with Utah, Pioneer day is a state holiday on the 24th of July and it's a pretty big... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 14, 2008 11:31 AM
CTO Breakfast on Friday
The CTO Breakfast be this friday from 8:00 until about 10:00. We'll be at the Novell cafeteria (Building G). I'm spending the first part of this week at Velocity so I'm sure I'll want to talk a little about... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 24, 2008 12:45 PM
Utah CTO Breakfast on Friday
The May CTO Breakfast will be held on Friday (May 30) at 8am in the Novell Cafeteria (Building G, Provo Campus). Anyone interested in how information technology is used to build products or run companies. Despite it's name, you... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 27, 2008 10:34 AM
Google App Engine at the CTO Breakfast
Not Getting Things Done(click to enlarge) There was a pretty big crowd at this morning's CTO Breakfast. Sam Curran had spent some time building an application on Google App Engine, so we had him demo his app and show... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 17, 2008 9:31 AM
Utah CTO Breakfast This Thursday
It's time for another Utah CTO Breakfast. This Thursday at 8am at the Novell cafeteria (building G). We're a little early this month due to my imminent trip to China. Please bring any topics that have struck your fancy... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 15, 2008 10:35 AM
CTO Breakfast Thursday
The CTO Breakfast will be held this Thursday, March 27 at 8am in the Novell Cafeteria (Building G). Anyone interested in high-tech and product development is welcome. The discussion is free-form, so feel free to bring some topics to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 25, 2008 11:02 AM
CTO Breakfast Tomorrow
We'll have the CTO breakfast tomorrow morning (Feb 28) at 8am in the Novell cafeteria (Provo Campus). Follow the link for directions. Despite it's name, you don't have to be a CTO to attend--just interested in technology, where it's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 27, 2008 11:25 AM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for January 2008
Here are the top ten shows (ordered by number of downloads) on IT Conversations for January 2008. Billy Hoffman - Technometria: Ajax Security (No rating yet)More and more Web sites are being rewritten as Ajax applications and traditional desktop... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 4, 2008 3:14 PM
CTO Breakfast Report for January
Scott Lemon shows off his XO Laptop(click to enlarge) We started off this morning discussing AsteriskNow, an easy install of the Asterisk VoIP system. Scott Lemon and I talked to Jared Smith a while back on that. Apparently it's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 24, 2008 10:56 AM
CTO Breakfast on Thursday!
This Thursday is the CTO Breakfast! We've got a few really cool things lined up: Scott Lemon is going to give a short tutorial on writing Facebook applications Scott also is going to bring his XO Laptop (one laptop... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 22, 2008 9:45 PM
Working With Millenials
Robert Merrill, one of the regulars at the CTO Breakfast has a great post on working with Millenials, keying off yesterday's firing of Tiffany Fallon instead of Omarosa on Celebrity Apprentice. Good stuff! That's one of the things I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 4, 2008 1:28 PM
Starting a High Tech Business: You Need a CTO
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the sixth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 18, 2007 12:59 PM
CTO Breakfast Report
As we did introductions today, a surprising number of people were remodeling their basement (time of the year, I guess). Consequently we ended up talking about home theaters set ups for the first part of the meeting. Interesting tidbit:... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 29, 2007 10:07 AM
CTO Breakfast This Thursday
The last CTO Breakfast of the year will be held this Thursday at 8am in the Novell Cafeteria. Despite it's name, you don't have to be a CTO to attend--just interested in technology, where it's headed, and the problems... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 26, 2007 2:52 PM
CTO Breakfast Recap
The first item on today's schedule was to get an update on the EMC acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems. Scott gave us a report on his recent trip to the Millenials conference last month. This led to a discussion... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 30, 2007 9:42 AM
CTO Breakfast Reminder for October
We'll be having the CTO breakfast next Tuesday at the cafeteria on the Novell Provo Campus (Building G) at 8am. Note that it's Tuesday not Thursday or Friday like it usually is. Bring your ideas, thoughts, and questions. We... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 25, 2007 8:48 AM
CTO Breakfast on Thursday
Our monthly CTO Breakfast will be held on September 27, 2007 from 8 until at Novell Cafeteria, Building G, Provo Campus . Despite it's name, you don't have to be a CTO to attend--just interested in technology, where it's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 25, 2007 11:25 AM
Spook Country
I just finished Spook Country, William Gibson's latest novel. The book is a mystery, set in a world that could be today or the near future. Geolocative art is bigger than you might find to be the case today,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 30, 2007 8:52 PM
CTO Breakfast Report for August 2007
At this morning's CTO breakfast we talked about: Working from home--both from the standpoint of employees and employers. The experiences were all over the map--positive and negative. My experience converting physical machines to virtual machines. Booting DOS to recover... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 23, 2007 1:00 PM
CTO Breakfast on Thursday
Just a reminder that the CTO Breakfast will be this Thursday (Aug 23) from 8:00 until 10:00 in the Novell Cafeteria (Building G, Provo Campus) . As usual, all are welcome. We'll have our usual technology roundtable, so come... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 21, 2007 1:42 PM
CTO Breakfast Report
The first item of discussion at today's CTO Breakfast was iPhone features and unfeatures. A few of us had one. I passed mine around for people to play with. We also discussed some other devices, like the Blackberry Curve.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 20, 2007 10:04 AM
Flying to Richfield
Little Bryce Canyon(click to enlarge) Last Saturday, Steve Fulling and I flew down to Richfield with my youngest son. The flight was all about breakfast and enjoying what turned out to be a beautiful summer morning. I was a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 18, 2007 7:29 AM
CTO Breakfast This Friday
Our monthly CTO Breakfast will be held on Friday, July 20 from 8:00 am until about 10:00 in the Novell Cafeteria (Building G). We'll be discussing recent technology developments, so bring your favorite ideas from the last month. You... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 16, 2007 1:47 PM
Being Extraordinary
One of my favorite morning rituals in the summer is to take my laptop and breakfast out on the patio in the mornings and sit in the shade, while it's still cool, while I eat and catch up on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 9, 2007 9:25 AM
CTO Breakfast on Friday
The next CTO Breakfast will happen on June 29, 2007 from 8:00 until 10:00 at the Novell Cafeteria, Building G, Provo Campus. You're invited! You don't have to be a CTO--just interested in products and technology. Given the coincidence... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 25, 2007 6:34 PM
At the May 2007 CTO Breakfast
We had the May CTO Breakfast today. There was a good group and some great discussion. I started off by talking about the Utopia install at my house. No one else at the meeting has Utopia yet, so there... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 24, 2007 9:58 AM
CTO Breakfast Reminder
Just a reminder that we'll hold the May CTO breakfast this coming Thursday at 8am. We're in the usual place--the Novell cafeteria. Some of you are still holding out because it seems so far away, but give it a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 21, 2007 9:43 PM
CTO Breakfast Report for April 2007
Today was bring your child to CTO Breakfast day. Not officially, but with today being Spring Break, there were a few here. I brought my son so he could visit a friend who lives south. Scott Lemon just got... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 20, 2007 10:47 AM
CTO Breakfast This Friday
Our monthly CTO breakfast will be held this Friday at 8am in the Novell Cafeteria, Building G, Provo Campus. Check the CTO Breakfast page for directions and future dates. What's been on my mind lately is Seth Godin's hopeful... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 18, 2007 9:17 AM
Barnett from PopTech!
I just finished watching Thomas Barnett's talk from PopTech! I like reading Barnett, but watching him is another thing altogether. He's a very good presenter and very entertaining. If you want a gentle introduction, watch the video. I don't... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 17, 2007 10:45 AM
Twittering Leads to Connectedness
I've been playing with Twitter since the last CTO breakfast. Interesting to go back and look at that post and realize it was before Kathy Sierra stopped blogging. Since then I've had a number of people ask me about... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 10, 2007 9:26 PM
Authorization Models and Delegation
I promised yesterday that I'd talk a little more about our discussion on delegation. I've since had a profitable discussion with Devlin and Bryant as well. The problem with delegation is that it requires something that has eluded organizations... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 23, 2007 10:53 AM
CTO Breakfast Links for March 2007
Mentioned at this morning's CTO Breakfast: I brought up Twitter. Until last week I'd never heard of it, now it seems I hear about it several times a day. I signed up to play with it. My first reaction... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 22, 2007 7:08 PM
CTO Breakfast for March 2007
We'll hold the March CTO Breakfast this Thursday at 8am in the Novell Cafeteria (see directions here) in Building G of the Provo Novell Campus. At least one person has contacted me and asked if we could discuss what... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 19, 2007 9:36 PM
CTO Breakfast Report: The No-Employee Business
At this months' CTO Breakfast we had a long discussion about preparing students for careers in software this morning. We debated how much students need to know real tools like Subversion, Eclipse, Ant, and so on versus knowing how... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 15, 2007 11:44 AM
CTO Breakfast Thursday
We'll hold the CTO breakfast this Thursday at 8am. Last time we met in the Novell Cafeteria and that worked really well. Folks coming from Salt Lake reported that it was perhaps even shorter than driving over to Canyon... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 12, 2007 11:16 AM
January CTO Breakfast Report
We talked about the recent SHA-1 hack and the MD5 exploits that are available. Lockcrack (a password cracking program) apparently has a table of pre computed hashes now installed that make cracking many hashes a job of just a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 25, 2007 10:24 AM
CTO Breakfast for January (at Novell)
It's time to start the CTO Breakfast series for 2007! We'll be meeting in a new place this time, so pay attention. The CTO Breakfast for January will be help Thursday Jan 25th at 8am at the Novell Cafeteria.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 19, 2007 11:32 AM
CTO Breakfast Report
We had the monthly CTO Breakfast this morning--perhaps for the last time in it's usually place. There was a good group present and some fun discussion. Bruce Fryer's brought up an ironic encounter with a word-of-mouth marketing company. The... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 30, 2006 10:11 AM
CTO Breakfast for November and December
This Thursday will be the CTO breakfast for November and December. We'll hold it at 8am in the usual place (Executive Conference Room of Building L at Canyon Park Technology Center). For more information on location, including maps, please... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 27, 2006 10:23 PM
Flying to Afton
The Elk Arch in Afton(click to enlarge) I flew up to Afton WY this morning with Steve Fulling and my daughter. We were actually headed to Driggs, but as we passed Afton, I suggested we stop there. I was glad... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 22, 2006 1:38 PM
CTO Breakfast Venue
It's been a good run, but after almost two years, the executive conference room at the Canyon Park Technology Center will no longer be available for our monthly CTO Breakfasts. Canyon Park has leased Building L to UVSC and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 15, 2006 1:40 PM
More on Online Docs
Jordy has a nice write-up of last week's CTO Breakfast on his blog. He concentrates and adds to the discussion of online word processing and spreadsheet tools. I think online doc sharing just hasn't reached a critical mass yet.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 31, 2006 9:32 AM
CTO Breakfast Report for October
I posted a piece on why mobile data centers matter at Between the Lines. My thoughts were in response to the most recent Gillmor Gang where Sun's new mobile data centers were discussed. Another interesting tidbit from that show... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2006 9:49 PM
CTO Breakfast Reminder
Just a reminder that the CTO Breakfast will be held this Thursday at 8am in the Executive Conference room of Building L at Canyon Park Technology Center (the usual location, in other words). Come grab some breakfast at the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 24, 2006 9:27 PM
What To Do After You Lose Your Job
Imagine this scenario: Yikes! You just lost your job! You've been so busy at *work* that you don't feel your network is as strong as you would like it to be! What are you going to do with (and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 17, 2006 9:23 AM
CTO Breakfast Report for September
Carl Youngblood told us of his experience as the sole technical person in a small construction loan wholesaling company. He's building a Rails application to automate the process and using an Indian outsourcing company to do much of the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 26, 2006 2:40 PM
CTO Breakfast on Tuesday
This is a reminder that we'll be holding the CTO breakfast this coming Tuesday at 8am in Building L (cafeteria) of the Canyon Park Technology Center (former WordPerfect campus). This is a change from the schedule. I have decided... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 21, 2006 2:31 PM
Digital Identity in BC Government
Dave Nikolesjsin, CIO, Prov. of British Columbia(click to enlarge) Dave Nikolesjsin is the CIO for the Prov. of British Columbia. No less an authority on identity than Dick Hardt has told me that I really had to see what they... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 12, 2006 4:20 PM
August CTO Breakfast
This Friday we'll meet again for August's CTO Breakfast. We'll meet at 8am in the food court at Canyon Park Technology Center (former Word Perfect campus). We'll be in the conference room at the west end. Bring your stories,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 21, 2006 8:01 PM
May CTO Breakfast Report
We spent a good deal of time talking about offsite backup and things like Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk is a application for Windows, OSX, and Linux that uses Amazon's S3 as the storage substrate. Bruce brought up Verisign's PIP,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 19, 2006 9:48 AM
Learning CSS
A friend of mine is learning CSS. Like me, his standard MO when learning something new is to just look at the source and start playing around until you get it right. Mostly that works for CSS, but I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 8, 2006 4:41 PM
April CTO Breakfast Report
Today we did something different at the CTO breakfast and brought a projector for 5 minute lightening demos. Nathan Conger from Novell went first and showed the new SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop. We saw Beta 10. This is available... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 28, 2006 9:47 AM
Kim Clark on Modularity
I attended a UTC (formerly UITA) breakfast this morning where Kim Clark, President of BYU Idaho and former Dean of the Harvard Business School, was the featured speaker. (photos) Pres. Clark talked about harnessing the power of modularity. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 26, 2006 2:01 PM
April CTO Breakfast Reminder
Just a reminder that April's CTO breakfast will be held this Friday (Apr 28) at 8am in the usual location (Bldg L, Food Court of Canyon Park Technology Center). This time we're going to try something new. I'll have... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 24, 2006 11:33 AM
AJAX Progress and Challenges
I just put up the latest installment of the Technometria podcast at IT Conversations on AJAX Progress and Challenges. A few months ago, Bruce Grant, Ben Galbraith, and Scott Lemon were all at my CTO breakfast and we had... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 12, 2006 1:47 PM
March CTO Breakfast Report
This morning's CTO breakfast had around 30 people in attendance. As always, the conversations was geeky and varied. Here are a few things I took notes on. We had a discussion of Ruby and how it's always at the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 30, 2006 2:42 PM
March's CTO Breakfast
Just a reminder that the CTO Breakfast for March will be held this Thursday at 8am in the food court of the Canyon Park Technology Center (Building L of the former Word Perfect campus). Come a little early, grab... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2006 10:04 AM
February CTO Breakfast Report
This morning's CTO breakfast was well attended (about 30 people) with good discussion. Here are some of the things we talked about. I started out mentioning that Hillarie Orman was on a panel at Demo and asking for a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 23, 2006 1:16 PM
CTO Breakfast on Thursday
We'll be having the monthly CTO Breakfast this Thursday at 8am. As usual, we'll meet in the Food Court at Canyon Park Technology Center (Building L of the former Word Perfect Campus). Come prepared to talk to the group... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 21, 2006 7:53 AM
Ajax Logins
While over at the Ajaxian, I saw an interesting article from evolt.org about an Ajax-enabled login system by James Dam. There's a demo that shows how it works. The overall effect is quite nice, I think. Rather than flipping... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 2, 2006 10:26 AM
CTO Breakfast Report
Today's CTO Breakfast was a lot of fun. There were about 30 people there. I was afraid that with the day change we'd have fewer people, but not so. Any more and we'll have to get a bigger room.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 31, 2006 11:22 AM
CTO Breakfast Tomorrow
Remember that we're holding January's CTO breakfast tomorrow morning at 8am in the food court (BLDG L) at Canyon Park Technology Center (former Word Perfect Campus). Come prepared to talk about things you've seen in the last month. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 30, 2006 11:16 AM
CTO Breakfast Date Change
I've had to change the date of the CTO breakfast for January. The schedule originally had us meeting on Thursday the 26th or January, but I've got to leave for Hawaii that morning (I know, but someone has to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 17, 2006 10:10 AM
CTO Breakfast Report
This morning's CTO breakfast was a lot of fun. We're getting a very good turn out and the discussion is excellent. The tenor of the discussion is different than at other technical meetings because the group has a fair... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 2, 2005 1:20 PM
CTO Breakfast for November and December
This Friday is the CTO breakfast for November and December. We'll meet in the conference room near the food court at Canyon Park Technology Center (Building L). See the CTO Breakfast page for more information and directions. Also on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 30, 2005 7:58 AM
TinyDisk: Lessons for Web Applications Builders
At the CTO Breakfast, someone also brought up TinyDisk, a complete, shared filesystem built on to of TinyURL. If you're not familiar with TinyURL, it's a URL mapping service that let's you create a small, easily emailed URL to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 31, 2005 7:46 AM
CTO Breakfast Report
I really enjoyed this morning's CTO breakfast a lot. At the suggestion of some attendees, I tried to moderate it a little and keep it more focused on new and interesting technology. Here are some of the things we... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 28, 2005 11:39 AM
October's CTO Breakfast
Next Friday at 8am we'll get together for October's CTO Breakfast. I'll just be getting back from two days at the Internet Identity Workshop, so I'm sure I'll be fired up about that. I've also had several people lately... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 21, 2005 7:57 AM
CTO Breakfast Report
We had an excellent CTO breakfast this morning. There were about 30 people there. We're going to need a bigger room soon. Scott Lemon talked about the Accelerating Change conference. We also had Utopia network operator Dynamic City in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 30, 2005 10:34 AM
CTO Breakfast on Friday
We'll be meeting this Friday (Sep 30) at 8am for September's CTO Breakfast. Scott Lemon just got back from Accelerating Change 2005 and will give us a report. Also, as promised. DynamicCity will be there to talk about the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 24, 2005 3:45 PM
Accelerating Change 2005
Accelerating Change is an awesome conference. I've never been in person, but I love listening to in at IT Conversations. Maybe next year... In the meantime, Scott Lemon went and blogged about it (day 1 and day 2). I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 21, 2005 1:46 PM
IT's Role in Improving Elections
I posted an article at ZDNet's Government and Technology blog about the Carter-Baker report on voting: Former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker released the final version of a bipartisan election reform report today. The... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 20, 2005 12:17 PM
CTO Breakfast Report
We had the CTO Breakfast this morning and there was lots of interesting discussion and more people than we've ever had before. Much bigger and we'll need a different room. Here are some things we talked about: China. This... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 26, 2005 10:37 AM
CTO Breakfast this Friday
We'll be having the CTO Breakfast this Friday at 8am. You don't have to be a CTO to come, just interested in information technology and product development. The breakfast will be held in the executive conference room of Building... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 22, 2005 6:38 PM
July CTO Breakfast
July's CTO Breakfast will be at 8am this Friday. We'll be meeting in the usual place. The discussion is always interesting, so come join us.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 25, 2005 1:11 PM
Flying the Shoreline of Utah Lake
N9472C in the air. An old friend of mine from Southern California was in town the last few days to buy a plane. He bought a Piper Archer from a guy in Montana. Yesterday Steve Fulling and I flew... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 16, 2005 11:03 AM
Another CTO Breakfast
It's time for another CTO Breakfast. We'll be meeting in the usual place (food court at Canyon Park Technology Center) this Friday at 8am. This month, I've moved the CTO Breakfast from the 24th to the 17th to accommodate... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 13, 2005 2:49 PM
CTO Breakfast Report
Today's CTO Breakfast was well attended and, as usual, there were a few new faces and some great conversation. Some of the topics we discused include: The state of the UTOPIA network build-out in Orem Programming languages, natural languages,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 27, 2005 2:28 PM
CTO Breakfast on Friday
It's time for another CTO Breakfast. We'll be meeting in the usual place (food court at Canyon Park Technology Center) this Friday at 8am. In June, I've moved the CTO Breakfast from the 24th to the 17th to accommodate... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 23, 2005 10:41 AM
FundingUtah.com
Paul Allen, with the help of some friends, has put together a Web site aimed at bringing investors and entrepreneurs together. The site is called FundingUtah.com and had its official coming out party today at a lunch featuring Governor... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 26, 2005 1:09 PM
Ward Spangenberg's Fly Fishing
Ward Spangenberg wonders where his Google rank went. I care what Ward says, so I'll vote with my link. Post some more Ward!... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 21, 2005 6:06 PM
New Uses for Motion Sensors
At the CTO breakfast yesterday, we were talking about the innovative uses people are making of the PowerBook's motion sensor. For example, you could imagine motion sensors in a GPS unit or cell phone that allowed you to navigate... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 25, 2005 4:01 PM
CTO Breakfast on Thursday
I'll host another CTO breakfast this Thursday at Gandolfo's Food Court in Building L at the Canyon Park Technology Center (former Word Perfect campus). Interest in computers and building things is the only entrance requirement. Here's a couple of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 21, 2005 8:51 AM
Selecting a CIO
As Dave Fletcher points out, HB109 has passed and the process of selecting a CIO for Utah has begun. This is a tricky process because the is a huge job. In my opinion, the new CIO has to have... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 2, 2005 12:42 PM
CTO Breakfast
I realized this morning when I was getting ready to go over the CTO breakfast that I forgot to send a note to the mailing list earlier this week. I put it on my blog, but then missed the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 24, 2005 10:29 AM
CTO Breakfast This Thursday
We'll be holding this month's CTO Breakfast this Thursday at 8am at Canyon Park's food court. Hope to see you there. Meanwhile, today I'm taking the kids skiing. Sundance got 21 new inches over the weekend.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 21, 2005 8:13 AM
The Dos and Don'ts of Accelerating Your Funding Success
This morning, UITA held a breakfast meeting in Utah County with David Bradford and Fraser Bullock. David is the former General Counsel at Novell and does venture capital funding now. Fraser was the COO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 27, 2005 10:16 AM
Flying to Richfield
Steve and I flew down to Richfield for breakfast this morning. It was a beautiful, cold morning. We left in the dark and arrived there just as the sun was coming up as we got to Richfield. The temperature... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 4, 2004 10:16 PM
Trackbacks and Identity
This morning's CTO Breakfast seemed to keep coming back to the same idea expressed in different ways. We started off talking about pornography filters and the possibility of using something like real-time blacklisting for SPAM to identify URLs and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 19, 2004 3:06 PM
CTO Breakfast Reminder
We'll hold November's CTO breakfast tomorrow morning. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 18, 2004 2:55 PM
CTO Breakfast Report
Ward Spangenberg, one of the regulars at the CTO breakfast each month summarizes some of the main things we talked about last week. We always have a great discussion and I look forward to them. If you're interested in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 23, 2004 9:39 AM
CTO Breakfast Report: Local Exchanges
The topic for Friday's CTO Breakfast was local exchanges. We had a great discussion and several new people Hope to see you there next month. Don't know what an exchange is or why its important? Keep reading. In the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 27, 2004 10:05 AM
Utah CTO Breakfast: Utah Exchange Point
September's CTO breakfast will be this Friday at the usual place and time (more information). Pete Kruckenberg of UEN has requested that we spend some time talking about how we can get a regional exchange point started in Utah... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 20, 2004 11:52 AM
Sixth Myths of IT
This InfoWorld special report on the six myths of IT is generating some heat on the Web. I saw it first on the InfoWorld site earlier in the week, but since then I've seen it referenced all over. Here... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 25, 2004 2:23 PM
Dave Weinberger on Blogging's Rubicon
Dave Weinberger is one of the convention bloggers at the DNC this week. He believes that blogging the convention has changed how blogging is viewed in some fundamental ways. He writes: The credentialed bloggers are sitting in the section... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 27, 2004 3:09 PM
Do It Yourself IT
Doc is talking, over at his new IT Garage, about Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma and asking how open source fits into the equation. Doc's rif is that open source is an example of demand supplying itself. That's a different... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 28, 2004 1:44 PM
CTO Breakfast Report
I just got back from another CTO Breakfast. We continue to attract new people and today there were 6 or 7 people there who'd never been there before. I enjoy these events a lot because there's always some interesting... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 23, 2004 11:00 AM
iTunes Music Store RSS Feeds
Via Brian Sweeting (who was in attendence at this morning's CTO Breakfast) I learned that iTMS is now offering RSS feeds. Like Brian, I wish you could fine tune the feed a little more, but then, that raises its... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 26, 2004 12:37 PM