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Anti-Perl Social Engineering
Dave Cross has a piece on why corporations hate Perl. He's being a little hyperbolic (as he admits)--not everyone hates Perl, but he's right in noting that there is a backlash against it. He says: I was talking to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 20, 2008 11:13 AM
The TechCrunch 50 Mosh Pit: Is It Worth It?
We were notified that Kynetx will not be one of the TechCrunch 50. Ah well... The rejection notice said this: We are sorry to let you know that your company was not selected as a finalist for the TechCrunch50... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 14, 2008 1:58 PM
Federating with Identi.ca
Twitter's performance problems over the past few months have made people skittish about basing businesses, even ideas, on it. The problem isn't just performance problems, however. When one company controls what many come to consider a key piece of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 12, 2008 6:57 PM
Relationship Providers
Businesses spend a great deal of time and money trying to identify their customers. By "identify" I mean not just get a name and credit card number, but find, learn about, and discover the attributes, preferences, and even desires... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 23, 2008 3:38 PM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for June
Here's the top ten shows on IT Conversations for June: Episode Nine - StackOverflow (Rating: 3.28)Joel and Jeff discuss Apple's WWDC (and the correct pronunciation of OS X), the use of JavaScript on modern web sites, affiliate programs, and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 14, 2008 4:00 PM
Success Factors for Saas Delivery
I'm at the Utah Technology Council's CTO P2P forum this morning. Nate Bowler, a former collegue at Excite@Home and CTO of @Task is speaking about SaaS, software as a service. Nate says that his number one take-away from this... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 11, 2008 8:23 AM
The 50-50 Rule in Retail: Capturing Customer Conversations
Ross Mayfield notes that in an Apple retails store "50% of the space is for retail sales and 50% for service and support." He goes on to contrast that with places like Fry's or Best Buy. I'm always amazed... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 9, 2008 10:03 AM
Shopper Experience and Competitive Advantage
When I was at Internet Retailer in Chicago a few weeks ago, I heard at least three speakers give as story that, abstracted, went something like this: We started off building our own ecommerce platform, then we switched to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 27, 2008 11:19 AM
New Levels of Competitiveness in E-retailing: Robert Antall
Robert Antall, CEO, Lake West Group is speaking on the new level of competitiveness in e-retailing. His slides are busy, but he's saying quite a few good things. I'm just writing down some ideas. Today's innovation is tomorrow expectation... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 10, 2008 8:54 AM
Internet Retailer Conference 2008: Keynote by Mike Boylson
I'm at the Internet Retailer this week at the McCormick Center in Chicago. I haven't been to an industry conference like this since 2000. The opening by Jack Love was, frankly, a throw away. Nothing like a Phil Becker... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 10, 2008 8:19 AM
Starting a High Tech Business: Speed Pitching
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 fourteenth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 9, 2008 10:43 AM
Larry H. Miller at the vSpring v|100 Lunch
Larry H. Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz, numerous car dealerships, and a member of the v|100 spoke at today's lunch. Here's a few note son what he said. He starts with two words of advice: don't stampede. Moving... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 28, 2008 2:10 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
Cloud Computing: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee of Google
Main hall where keynotes were held. I love the red slip covers on the chairs. They were more comfortable than your standard hotel chair. (click to enlarge) The opening keynote at WWW2008 is Dr. Kai-Fu Lee of Google. Before... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 22, 2008 8:04 PM
Starting a High Tech Business: Getting Five Clients
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 fourteenth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 18, 2008 8:10 AM
Starting a Small Business: Active Paticipation or Passive Resentment?
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 twelfth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 9, 2008 11:55 AM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for March 2008
Below are the titles and descriptions of the top ten shows on IT Conversations for March 2008. Michael Lenczner - Interviews with Innovators: Community Wireless (No rating yet)Michael Lenczner is one of the founders of Ile Sans Fil, Montreal's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 2, 2008 1:40 PM
Why Electronic Employment Verification Is a Bad Idea
When Americans (led by Lou Dobbs) scream "do something about illegal immigration" at the top of their lungs, you know we're going to get saddled with a bunch of awful ideas. One of those is Electronic Employment Verification, or... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 18, 2008 7:50 PM
v|100 List: I'm On It
I was chosen, for the fifth year in a row, as a member of vSpring Capital's v|100 list. Actually, the reason I started Kynetx was so that I wouldn't get kicked off the v|100. :-) The list is supposed... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2008 10:33 AM
Starting a High Tech Business: What's Your Story
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 eleventh installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2008 7:00 AM
Bigger Monitors Boost Productivity
An article in the Wall Street Journal's Business Technology blog reports on research that James Anderson conducted for NEC. The research found: someone using a larger monitor could save 2.5 hours a day. But James Anderson, the professor in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 12, 2008 6:53 PM
CouchDB from 10,000 Feet
Jan Lehnardt and Damien Katz(click to enlarge) Damien Katz and Jan Lehnardt are talking about CouchDB. My students have mentioned it several times and we've had brief discussions about it, but I've never spent much time on it. This... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 6, 2008 11:23 AM
Top Ten IT Conversations Show for February 2008
Here are the top ten shows on IT Conversations (ordered by number of downloads) for February 2008: Muhammad Yunus - Tech Nation (No rating yet)Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 3, 2008 9:12 PM
Kathy Sierra: Storyboarding for Non-Fiction
Kathy Sierra talks about storyboarding(click to enlarge) How do you create riveting technical presentations and user manuals? Tell a story. Kathy Sierra is teaching the tutorial and using her own experience creating the "Head First" books on Java and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 3, 2008 10:09 AM
Organizing Ourselves
I was listening to Jon Udell's interview with Valdis Krebs on IT Conversations and Valdis tell the story of seeing hotels guests self-organize to deal with hotel management about the awful Wi-Fi service. He says: Hotels are used to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 1, 2008 1:52 PM
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
Starting a High Tech Business: Outsource Everything
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 tenth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 26, 2008 8:40 PM
The Value of Engineering
As I listened to Udi Manber, the head of core search team at Google, I was impressed by something that most of us understand in a different sense: engineering matters at Google. Most of us think about this in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 21, 2008 7:42 PM
On Static Types and Language Choice
I caught a little flack in response to my post calling attention to Steve Yegge's recent essay "Portrait of a Noob." In particular Levi thought I was out of line for endorsing something so inflammatory: "People who approach programming... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 12, 2008 8:46 AM
Starting a High Tech Business: Getting Started
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 ninth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 8, 2008 5:01 PM
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
Starting a High Tech Business: The Rude Dog Demo and Working Code
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 eighth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 31, 2008 10:03 PM
Time for Fry's in Utah
Now that CompUSA is closing, there are no decent places in Utah to buy electronics. Not that CompUSA was a dream store by any means, but at least it was something. There's BestBuy and Circuit City, but they're not... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 28, 2008 3:55 PM
Kynetx Making Progress
I now have evidence that Kynetx is gaining momentum: I got my first call from an Indian "business process outsourcer" today asking if we had any programming work we wanted to outsource. They answer, by the way, is no.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 17, 2008 8:34 AM
How the iPhone is Changing the Wireless Industry
Apple iPhone(click to enlarge) The latest issue of Wired Magazine has a great article on the iPhone: The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry. Very interesting behind the scenes details and analysis. Here's the summary:... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 10, 2008 8:46 AM
Ten Four Reasons Businesses Shouldn't Use the iPhone
Ten Four Reasons Businesses Shouldn't Use the iPhone --> Apple iPhone(click to enlarge) CIO magazine has a piece on the 10 Reasons IT Should Not Support the Apple iPhone from Forrester Research. I realize we all like lists with numbers... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 9, 2008 10:30 AM
Starting a High Tech Business: Talent
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 seventh installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 4, 2008 8:38 AM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for 2007
Here's the list of the top ten shows on IT Conversations (by number of downloads) for all of 2007: Bruce Johnson - Technometria: Google Web Toolkit (Rating: 4.15)Recently, Google released from beta its Google Web Toolkit. Google Web Toolkit... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 2, 2008 9:54 AM
Top IT Conversations Shows for December 2007
Here are the top ten shows on IT Conversations (by number of downloads) for December 2007: Trust Online Panel 1 - Technical and Regulatory Issues (No rating yet)While the Internet is quickly becoming an indispensable part of our lives... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 2, 2008 9:49 AM
Comments in MT4
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Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 28, 2007 7:02 PM
Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1
The Richter Scales have posted version 1.1 of "Here Comes Another Bubble" after Lane Hartwell filed a DCMA take down request with YouTube because a picture she'd taken at a party and posted online was used in the video.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 19, 2007 9:02 AM
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
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for November 2007
Here's the top ten shows, by download, for IT Conversations during November 2007. I'm late because some recent server changes means that I didn't have access to the logs for a bit. Also, unfortunately, we lost 11 days worth... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 12, 2007 11:15 AM
Starting a High Tech Business: Choosing a Deployment Model
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). 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 fifth installment. You... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 7, 2007 9:06 AM
Placing the User at the Center of Identity
Coincidentally, a feature I did for InfoWorld on user-centric identity appeared today. Here's what I contributed: Federating identity for the WebUser-centric innovations CardSpace and OpenID may finally bring the promise of federation within reach Understanding OpenID and CardSpaceOpenID and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 3, 2007 6:37 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
November PLUG on the State of FOSS in Utah
The Provo Linux User's Group meeting for November will be on the 14th at 7:30pm. Omniture is hosting, so head on over to Canyon Park Technology Center. I'm going to try to make it. Here's the announcement: This is... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 9, 2007 11:00 AM
Starting a High Tech Business: Commitment
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). 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 fourth installment. You... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 9, 2007 9:27 AM
Spending Loyalty
Radiohead is earning customer loyalty while Apple spends it.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 8, 2007 7:15 AM
The New Federated Identity
I've been asked to put together a feature for InfoWorld on user-centric identity. The feature will include written text, a couple of podcasts, and some flash animations. I'm a little excited about the opportunity to use these different media... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 6, 2007 6:10 PM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for October 2007
Here are the top ten shows on IT Conversations (by download) for October 2007: Bruce Johnson - Technometria: Google Web Toolkit (Rating: 4.20)Recently, Google released from beta its Google Web Toolkit. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 6, 2007 2:26 PM
Andrew McAfee on the Exploitation of Ties
Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School(click to enlarge) I'm listening to Andrew McAfee's keynote at Defrag. He's talking about how social software can be used inside the enterprise. One of the key tasks facing proponents of social software is... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 6, 2007 9:16 AM
Defrag: Making Interactions Explicit
Eric Nolin is being very explicit about sponsor talks at Defrag. No harm there--in fact, I like it. The sponsor talk is clearly labeled as such and right before lunch. Today, it's Shane Pearson, from BEA. I interviewed him... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 5, 2007 1:35 PM
At Defrag
I'm in Denver at Defrag. Eric Nolan, Brad Feld, and Phil Becker have organized it to discuss "the internet-based tools that transform loads of information into layers of knowledge, and accelerate the "aha" moment. Defrag is about the space... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 5, 2007 9:49 AM
Why Can't My Car Tell the Speed Limit?
I got a ticket on my way to the Guy Kawasaki event yesterday--34 in a 25. I wasn't trying to speed--I simply wasn't paying attention. Here's my question: why can't my car tell the speed limit and warn me... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 2, 2007 8:27 AM
Starting a High Tech Business: Get a Clubhouse
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). 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 third installment. You... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 25, 2007 8:34 AM
Security on the Cheap
Larry Dignan at Between the Lines has posted some great tips for making your business more secure without spending much money. These are things everyone ought to be doing, but many aren't.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 15, 2007 2:51 PM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for September 2007
Update: I've updated this with ratings data. Normally the top 10 report includes the ratings for each show. The way I get access to the ratings data has been inop for some weeks now. I've delayed doing the report... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 15, 2007 1:17 PM
Starting a High Tech Business: Legal and Banking
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 9, 2007 9:02 AM
Starting a New High-Tech Business: Setting Up Email
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 3, 2007 9:32 AM
Managing the Legislature
There was a time that people in the Drivers License Bureau didn't want to be in the ID business. I can remember having the head of Utah's DL bureau tell me in no uncertain terms that the drivers license... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 26, 2007 1:13 PM
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
Stupid Reporter Tricks
I don't water ski. Never been. But let me take a minute to tell you why it's a stupid thing to do and all the reasons why you should waste your time doing it--just based on things I've heard.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 24, 2007 10:14 AM
NBC's Troubles
NBC has announced that it will open its own download site for it's programs after a dispute with Apple over the price and DRM for its programs on ITMS. There are a lot of people who think NBC is... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 20, 2007 12:17 PM
Syndication Oriented Architectures
Two of the people I respect the most, Jon Udell and Rohit Khare are together in one podcast: Jon's latest from his weekly Interviews With Innovators podcast on IT Conversations. Jon has a short write-up on his blog about... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 11, 2007 8:47 PM
O'Reilly Calls for Participation
O'Reilly Media has several calls for participation that are due soon. Now in its seventh year, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference hones in on the ideas, projects, and technologies that the alpha geeks are thinking about, hacking on, and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 10, 2007 12:03 PM
Bruce Perens: Innovation Goes Public
Bruce Perens speaks to UOSC(click to enlarge) Bruce Perens is here for the second keynote of the evening. I spoke to Bruce on IT Conversations last March when he was last in Utah to protest the Novell/Microsoft deal. Bruce... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 6, 2007 7:54 PM
Matt Asay: Making Utah a Center for Open-Source Innovation
Matt Asay is something of a fixture here in Utah and clearly a big booster of open source (he founded the Open Source Business Conference). He's giving the first keynote of the evening on bring open-source home (to Utah).... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 6, 2007 6:44 PM
Utah Open Source Conference
A string quartet entertains us while we eat and chat(click to enlarge) I'm sitting in Novell's Open Source Business Center waiting for the Utah Open Source Conference to begin. There's about 250 people registered, so a pretty good sized... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 6, 2007 5:48 PM
User-Centric Identity Events at DIDW
There are several user-centric identity events happening at the upcoming Digital Identity World. Identity Open Space User-Centric Digital Identity is gaining traction. OpenID is one of first of several efforts moving out on the web. There is a cluster... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 4, 2007 8:26 PM
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
User Centric Reputation Slides
Today I gave a talk at AOL in Virginia about reputation. I also had a chance to talk to a small working group on reputation and to the Architecture Council. The discussions were very good and gave me some... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 28, 2007 8:13 PM
A Metadata Interface for Spreadsheets
Mike Farmer asks why spreadsheets (including Apple's new Numbers) don't include ways of getting at data. Now that we have an easy way to assemble our data and make it look great we need a way to get at... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 13, 2007 9:59 AM
Platform Strategies that Work
I've been following Gnomedex via Twitter--a bunch of people I follow are there. Dave Winer just said, regarding Mahalo: When someone gets up and gives a speech about a platform, my mind gets engaged about ways I can have... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 10, 2007 6:30 PM
A First Look at Numbers
I just published a first look review of Numbers, Apple's new spreadsheet, at Between the Lines. This is a cool product that points to some changes Excel has long needed. I'm not what you would call a spreadsheet power... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 9, 2007 8:13 PM
One Stop Business Registration
I just finished setting up an LLC using Utah's One Stop Business Registration. This is an event-style eGovernment service that we first envisioned when I was CIO. It's been in operation for a while, but this was my first... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 3, 2007 10:22 AM
Open Source: Locked Into Uncertainty
I was browsing the ZDNet blogs this morning and saw this ad: This caught my eye and I clicked through. The ad takes you to case studies from Microsoft, including one showcasing the State of Illinois' email consolidation project.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 1, 2007 10:52 AM
IT Conversations Moves Back
As Doug Kaye announced, IT Conversations has moved back to the The Conversations Network, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. I'm excited about the move because I think it will result in IT Conversations being able to grow and take advantage of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 30, 2007 3:47 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
My Media Consumption Diet
Ian Forrester tagged me on a meme to share my media consumption diet. So here's my diet: Web: I'm on the Web all the time. Even more now that I've got an iPhone. I typically have a dozen tabs... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 10, 2007 6:50 PM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for June 2007
Note: Several people asked (in comments) for summaries of the programs. I've modified the program I use to generate this list to add summaries. So, here's the same list with summaries). Here are the top ten most downloaded shows... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 6, 2007 4:36 PM
Document Engineering
This week's Technometria podcast is a discussion with Bob Glushko of UC Berkeley's iSchool. Bob's book, Document Engineering is a look at the methods people should employ in designing the document that surround their business. Document, in Bob's view,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 29, 2007 2:06 PM
iPhone Service Plans
Apple and AT&T have released details of the iPhone service plan. Most interesting part: the phone is activated using iTunes. Looks like you'll just buy the box and take it home to activate it rather than doing it at... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 26, 2007 11:29 AM
iPhone Tour
I'm watching the 20 minute guided tour of iPhone that Apple posted today. While Amanda might be cheating the word "amazing" it's an excellent word to describe the phone this video shows off. Coupling a large multitouch screen with... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 22, 2007 3:55 PM
Fake Colgate and China Wars
If you want to understand stories about tainted dog food and fake, poison toothpaste, listen to part I and part II of Moira's interview with Peter Navarro. I bought and read Navarro's book, the Coming China Wars after listening... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 22, 2007 2:10 PM
Computational Thinking
When Jon Udell interviewed Phil Libin, on IT Conversations, Libin said that in the future people will have to understand asymmetric encryption in order to function in the world. At first I was incredulous--that seems like a pretty esoteric... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 18, 2007 2:05 PM
Optical Illusion: Qwest's Concern for Consumers
I was quoted in a City Weekly article on what Salt Lake City mayoral candidates think about municipal broadband in general and Utopia in particular. It wasn't my quote, however, that caught my eye, but one from Jerry Fenn.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 13, 2007 10:10 PM
Tacit Knowledge, Nomenclature, and Debugging
Jon Udell has a nice riff on my washed out screen problem, talking about how much of what we can do on computers depends on our tacit knowledge--the things we know that we don't really know we know. Debugging... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 12, 2007 1:16 PM
Why Does HP Software Suck Sooooo Bad?
I have an HP Scanjet 4670 that I've owned for 3 years now. I haven't used it for a year however, and a few months ago when I rebuilt my machine, I didn't reinstall the HP drivers on purpose.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 7, 2007 1:17 PM
Google Goes Fishing
Jeff Barr has a humorous look at the approach junior Google recruiters are using on him. As Scoble said: Anyone who does an hour's worth of research with a search engine, like, say, Google's, knows that Jeff is worth... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 23, 2007 9:15 AM
Black Swans and the Impact of Improbable Events
Black Swans(click to enlarge) Yesterday, Nassim Nicholas Taleb was on Talk of the Nation talking about his book Black Swan. Of course, we published Moira Gunn's interview with Taleb a few weeks ago on IT Conversations. The name comes... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 22, 2007 4:51 PM
Utah Open Source Conference
The Utah Open Source Conference will be held on September 6, 2007 through September 8, 2007 at the West Valley Cultural Celebration Center Open Source Technology Center (Novell). The conference is looking for proposals for 90 minute classes on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 22, 2007 12:43 PM
Hunting Down Spammers
The last talk reminds me that on my way into Canada, as I was passing through customs, the customs officer asked me my business. I reported I was going to give a tutorial at a Web conference. Here's the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 3:00 PM
Prabhakar Raghavan on Science for Engaging and Monetizing Audience
Prabhakar Raghavan from Yahoo! Research(click to enlarge) Prabhakar Raghavan is giving the morning keynote. He's the head of Yahoo! Research. The title of the talk was "What sciences will Web N.0 take?" But, more accurately, I'd call it "Science... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 9:55 AM
v|100 Selection
I was chosen, for the fourth year, in a row, as a member of the v|100. The v|100 recognizes entrepreneurs with Utah ties and is sponsored by vSpring Capital, an early stage venture firm. From the announcement: Each year,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 7, 2007 4:46 PM
Mikko Hypponen on Emergent Virus Threats
F-Secure is one of the leading companies devoted to the study and prevention of computer viruses, spam, and other types of malware. Last week we were lucky enough to get Mikko Hypponen, the company's Director of Anti-Virus Research, to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 25, 2007 9:14 AM
The Perfect Business
Scoble has a video showing one man's implementation of the perfect business. What's the perfect business? Simple: No inventory. No employees. No marginal cost of production. No rent. No business cards. It's all online and almost run itself.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 18, 2007 1:00 PM
John Hagel on IT Conversations
Last month, at ETech, Doug Kaye introduced me to John Hagel. At the time, I happened to be reading a paper he and John Seely Brown had written called From Push to Pull- Emerging Models for Mobilizing Resources because... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 11, 2007 11:29 AM
Provo Second on Forbes List
Forbes magazine lists Provo Utah as second on their list of Best Places For Business And Careers. Raleigh, NC was number one and Boise, ID was third. That's good company. After listening to Richard Florida on IT Conversations a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 6, 2007 8:58 AM