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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
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
Top Ten Stories on Technometria Last Month
It's funny to me which stories and posts seem to take off and which don't. Sometimes when I'm writing a post I just know that it's going to get traction, but most of the time, it's hit or miss.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 1, 2008 9:18 PM
Velocity 08: Even Faster Web Sites
Steve Souders of Google is speaking on Even Faster Web Sites. I've read Steve's book and loved it. It's the kind of book you read in the morning, use to make changes to your site in the afternoon and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 24, 2008 2:45 PM
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
Velocity 08: Energy Efficient Operations
Luiz Barroso from Google is speaking about Energy Efficient Operations. Computing has a great track record of having a positive impact on society. The world needs more computing. But more computing means more energy (usually). World energy use of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 23, 2008 12:50 PM
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
Turning Shoppers Into Customers
Someone asked me for a one-paragraph description of Kynetx today. Here's what I sent them: Kynetx is an early stage ecommerce company focused on turning shoppers into customers. We provide online merchants with easy to use tools and services... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 29, 2008 9:43 AM
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
One Is the Loneliest Number: Relationships on the Internet
Bob Blakely is speaking about building a relationship layer for the Internet. A relationship is the context within which we observe one another. Past history and even attitudes are not directly observable. This is imperfect--distant relationships are the basis... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 14, 2008 1:45 PM
Judging Credibility
Jeff Jarvis points out the flaws in Newscred. It's very simple --- though that's the problem; credibility isn't so simple. They list articles and you get to "credit" or "discredit" them. These scores are, in turn, compiled for writers... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 13, 2008 11:01 AM
Final: 2008 Utah State Republican Convention
Greg Curtis and John Valentine, House Speaker and Senate President(click to enlarge) I'm at the Utah State Party Convention this morning. There are literally thousands of people here. Traffic was backed up off the exit ramp near UVU (where... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2008 10:41 AM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for April 2008
In doing this month's top ten for IT Conversations, noticed two things: First, since Doug put in our own code for ratings, the number of ratings per show is way up. I think with the new homepage design (oops!... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 7, 2008 8:31 AM
Computational Advertising
Andrei Broder of Yahoo! Research(click to enlarge) I'm in a talk by Andrei Broder, a Yahoo! Fellow and Vice President of Computation Advertising on, what else, computational advertising. I was drawn to the talk by the title. Find the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 23, 2008 9:31 PM
Taking Search to New Frontiers: Dr. Harry Shum (Microsoft)
Harry Shum(click to enlarge) The Web can be divided into three components: content (pages, images, videos, blogs, feeds), people (readers, writers, creators, commenters), and actions (queries, clicks, pageviews). Current search engines have taken advantages of "keywords" to link those... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 23, 2008 7:32 PM
Exploring Beijing
Parking attendent(click to enlarge) I'm in Beijing for WWW2008 which starts tomorrow. I came out early (last Saturday) because I find conferences much more enjoyable when I'm not suffering from jet lag. I'm pretty well adjusted now and I'm... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 22, 2008 8:02 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
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
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
Dreams from My Father: My Attempts to Know Obama
I just finished reading Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance over the weekend. Like many I'm intrigued with Barack Obama and would like to understand him better. I feel like reading the book certainly helped... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 18, 2008 9:08 AM
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
Complete Solution for Unmounting Time Machine Drives
A few weeks ago, I wrote about forcing Time Machine drives to unmount. From a comment to that post by bil_kleb, I learned about Bernhard Baehr's SleepWatcher program that provided a way to create a complete solution. Here's what... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 6, 2008 12:28 PM
Kicking Ass
Kathy Sierra talks about kicking ass(click to enlarge) Kathy Sierra takes the stage again at ETech to talk about kicking ass. She says that people aren't passionate about things they suck at. Finding passion is a way to kick... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 5, 2008 12:52 PM
Sectored Wi-Fi Architecture
Xirrus Wi-Fi array controller(click to enlarge) O'Reilly is using one of these Xirrus Wi-Fi arrays and so far, I've got to say I'm impressed. The bandwidth has been great with none of the traditional conference wi-fi problems we all... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 4, 2008 11:35 AM
Marc Hedlund: Debugging Hacks, What They Never Taught You About Solving Hard Bugs
Marc Hedlund talks about debugging(click to enlarge) There's no doubt that debugging is a critical skill for anyone who codes. Marc Hedlund is talking about how to tackle the really difficult ones. I enjoyed Marc's tutorial from last year,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 3, 2008 3:42 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
Fran Allen: Compilers and Parallel Computing Systems
Fran Allen delivers Organick Lecture(click to enlarge) Fran Allen was the Turing Award winner for 2006. This afternoon she's giving the University of Utah's Organick Memorial Lecture. I've reported on some of these in the past few years: Jim... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 21, 2008 4:55 PM
Utah May Reject REAL ID
Yesterday, the Government Operations Committee of the Utah House of Representatives voted unanimously for a bill (HB449) that would bar the Utah Driver's License Division from implementing the REAL ID act of 2005. Utah isn't alone, a number of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 20, 2008 11:24 AM
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
CommuterLink Is Looking Pretty Tired
My daughter called me from Heber this afternoon to tell me she'd be late getting home because Highway 189 through Provo Canyon was closed. I went out to the Internet to try and find out what was going on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 7, 2008 9:13 PM
Change, Motherhood, and Apple Pie
When I worked at Naval Reactors, we had a shorthand for statements no one could argue with. Someone would say something and someone else would just say "motherhood." Everyone understood the shorthand: what you just said is like motherhood... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 5, 2008 5:47 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
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: 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
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
PayPal Really Makes Me Mad!
I got an email from PayPal today: We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. We have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features in case your account has been accessed by an... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 30, 2007 5:44 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
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
Domain Specific Languages
Recently, I've been designing a domain specific language for Kynetx, the start-up I'm working on. When you tell someone you're designing a language, the usual reaction is incredulity. "Why would you design your own language?!?!" they say. I'm here... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 2, 2007 10:24 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
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
Barx: A Proxy Resolver for XRI
Victor Grey and Kermit Snelson have created an XRI proxy resolver in Ruby called Barx. In it's most simple form, a proxy resolver returns an XRDS document when given an XRI. From the spec: "Proxy resolvers enable applications even... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 29, 2007 9:25 PM
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
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
State Sovereignty Doesn't Count for Much Online
Let me pose a hypothetical situation for you: Imagine some backwater town in your state. Now, imagine that some vandals move through town one night and plaster the local water board office with pornographic posters. The town fails to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 5, 2007 11:29 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
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
Digital Identity 101 at DIDW
I gave my tutorial this morning. The room was almost full, which pleased me. I didn't have enough time--never enough time--to get to everything that was interesting, but I think we hit the high points. I promised people I'd... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 24, 2007 2:16 PM
Finally! An InfoCard Selector for OS X
I posted a short piece at BTL about the Bandit project's InfoCard selector for the Mac. There have been some solutions in the past, but they were hard to install or flaky. This one is solid and the install... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 18, 2007 4:27 PM
SOA Governance Tutorial
I'm going to be doing a day-long tutorial on SOA governance at the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum in New York on November 8th. If you register before October 7th, it's $695. After that it's $795 until November 5th. Then... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 13, 2007 8:43 PM
Installing Tools in Fusion When They Won't Install
In Fusion (and other virtualization systems) you should install OS tools on the guest OS to make it behave better. This is not something specific to Fusion, this is a general fact of virtualization. Usually, clicking the "Install VMWare... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 12, 2007 9:43 AM
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
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
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
P2V: How To Make a Physical Linux Box Into a Virtual Machine
Over the last four days, I've been exploring how to convert physical Linux boxes into virtual machines. VMWare has a tool for doing P2V conversions, as they're called, but as far as I can tell it only works for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 20, 2007 7:38 AM
Using Twitter in Emergencies
And speaking of Twitter, from David Stephenson, a story of how the LA Fire Dept. is using Twitter and other Web 2.0 technologies as part of their disaster recovery and preparedness efforts. In addition, the LAFD is using Twitter... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 10, 2007 6:38 PM
Encrypting Your Email Address
Via a Wired story on protecting yourself from spam, I found Jim Tucek's Email Protector, a Javascript that let's you embed a mailto: link to your email address on your Web page without actually revealing the email address except... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 9, 2007 2:13 PM
IT Conversations Top Ten Shows for July 2007
Here's the top ten shows on IT Conversations (by downloads) for July 2007: Scott Berkun - Technometria: The Myths of Innovation (Rating: 3.45)How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 3, 2007 10:44 AM
Green Pixel Plague on Apple Displays
Doug Kaye has been bitten by the green pixel problem. He blames the display, but I don't think it is that simple. Here's why. I too have been troubled by this problem since I got a 30 inch display.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 2, 2007 7:23 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
iPod Silence is Disconcerting
I've got a weird problem with my iPod. It won't play music, podcasts, or anything else I load on it. It's making sound--you can hear the clicks in the head phones. And it thinks it's playing the display shows... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 31, 2007 9:15 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
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
Optimizing iTunes for IT Conversations
A number of people use iTunes as their podcatcher--the software that automatically downloads a podcast and puts it on their iPod. If that's you, please take a minute to change your preferences so that you don't miss any IT... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 14, 2007 12:55 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
iPhone Update
I'm number ninety six in line. I'm about half way up, so I expect there's about 200 people here. The Apple guys have been by to pick up trash and hand out slurpees (very nice!). They said we'd "be... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 29, 2007 4:26 PM
Bandit's Cross Platform Selector
Novell asked me for a quote for this press release on the Bandit cross-platform card selector. I said: "For the vision of user-centric identity to thrive, ecosystems like information card selectors have to extend beyond a single operating system.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 28, 2007 2:25 PM
Linking OpenID and CardSpace: SignOn.com
PingID (disclaimer: I'm on the advisory board) released the beta of SignOn.com today. SignOn.com is an OpenID identity provider that also accepts InfoCards. Once you've signed up, you can register an InfoCard with SignOn.com, you can use that to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 26, 2007 5:42 PM
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
First iPhone App
Want a glimpse of the first iPhone app in the wild? OneTrip is a shopping list application that is built with the iPhone's form factor and multi-touch screen in mind, but will run in Safari on any platform (and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 20, 2007 3:56 PM
EFF Wins 4th Amendment Email Victory
Richi Jennings has a nice wrap-up of reactions to the court ruling that EFF won against warrentless email snooping. Quoting Luke O'Brien: The ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio upheld a lower court ruling... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 20, 2007 8:57 AM
New From AT&T: Family Visit Plans
As I was reading this Bob Frankston quote on Doc's blog, I was imagining what would the world be like if our entire road system, including the roads in our neighborhoods have been built privately and we had to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 19, 2007 8:31 AM
Inline SVG
Sam Ruby puts inline SVG on his blog. SVG is a language for describing scalable vector graphics. Browsers that understand SVG can render the graphics directly rather than downloading a raster-based image with another HTTP GET. Because its tags,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 15, 2007 12:48 PM
XRDS and Self Asserted Claims
Andy Dale posted posted some cautions in response to my post on using XRDS. He later summarized his concerns very succinctly: SEPs in XRDS must be considered self asserted claims and as such should not be trusted on their... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 5, 2007 1:51 PM
Seth Godin: The Dip
I'm sitting in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake, waiting for Seth Godin to show up. He's reportedly in the car, driving from the airport. That's OK, the wait time has been a great time for talking to friends... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 24, 2007 2:07 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
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
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
Internet Identity Workshop 2007: Day Three
Tuesday dinner at the Monte Carlo in Mountain View(click to enlarge) If you're interested in following blogs about IIW2007, you can look for the iiw2007 tag on Technorati. First thing this morning (after picking up bagels) I went to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 16, 2007 1:32 PM
Internet Identity Workshop 2007: Day Two
IIW2007A Agenda Wall(click to enlarge) The second day at IIW started in the traditional way: building the agenda. I was surprised that almost half to rooms stood up to propose a session. The wall is pretty full and there... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 15, 2007 1:29 PM
IIW2007 Has Begun: Day One Activities
After months of preparation, IIW2007 has begun. Whew! I always feel a big relief when the "train leaves the station" as Mike Jones said. During the introductory presentation Eugene Kim asked how many people were here for the first... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 14, 2007 3:23 PM
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
A while back, during a recording for the Technometria podcast, Matt Asay mentioned he was reading a biography of William James. I'm not sure what intrigued me about what he said, but right after the broadcast I ordered a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 13, 2007 7:59 AM
User-Centric Identity Tutorial Resources
Banff Springs resort. (click to enlarge) I gave my tutorial on user-centric identity today. There were around 40 people there--a good crowd and very interested in identity. I promised that I'd post a list of resources, so here we... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 8, 2007 2:16 PM
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
Ken Knaptop's Blog
I've known Ken Knapton for years. I think we met in a job interview. He's currently the CTO for ContentWatch (I'm on the advisory board). Ken is the latest addition to the growing list of Utah Tech bloggers. Ken's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 4, 2007 3:54 PM