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Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for May 2008
Here are the top ten IT Conversations shows for May 2008: Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible (Rating: 3.89)Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of "Physics of the Impossible" about the improbable, and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 2, 2008 11:24 AM
Wall Street and Web 2.0
I really enjoyed this discussion on Web 2.0 and Wall Street from ETech with Bill Janeway and Peter Bloom. There are some interesting parallels and some great discussion from a couple of financial jocks who clearly get technology and,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 20, 2008 3:39 PM
Slideshows on IT Conversations!
Yesterday I posted Jane McGonigal's talk from ETech 2007 on creating alternate realities. This is the first show on IT Conversations that features our new slideshow tool for playing audio sync'd with the slides. For some talks this can... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2008 7:26 AM
Utah Holds Caucuses Tonight: Change Congress
Utah will hold caucus meetings tonight for the purpose of selecting delegates to the county and state conventions. Your voice is amplified many times over by being part of the process that decides who's on the ballot rather than... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 25, 2008 7:15 AM
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
Larry Lessig on Changing Congress
Larry Lessig on Changing Congress(click to enlarge) Lessig's keynotes are hard to blog, but the message isn't. Lessig's basic message is that government makes poor policy--even when the choice ought to be easy. The problem isn't overt bribery. In... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 5, 2008 8:49 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
John McCarthy on the Elephant Programming Language
John McCarthy(click to enlarge) He wasn't on the program, but this morning's keynote was given by Professor John McCarthy--the inventor of LISP and coiner of the term "artificial intelligence." This morning, he's talking about Elephant 2000, a programming language... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 5, 2008 10:28 AM
DIY Drones: Building Cheap UAVs
Chris Anderson(click to enlarge) One of the reasons I love ETech is talks like this one from Chris Anderson (of Wired) on building homebrew drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He has a Web site that shows how to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 4, 2008 5:51 PM
Amazon's SimpleDB
Jay Ridgeway from Nextumi(click to enlarge) This afternoon, I was torn between the session on botnets and one on Amazon's SimpleDB by Mike Culver and Jay Ridgeway. I chose the latter. The goal is a durable, flexible datastore at... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 4, 2008 4:47 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
Your Carbon Footprint
Saul Griffith(click to enlarge) This morning's opening keynote at ETech was Saul Griffith who ran down the steps he used to calculate his own carbon footprint and then what he had to do to put himself on a "carbon... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 4, 2008 11:18 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Why to Not Not Start a Startup
With all the ETech stuff I've been immersed in, it's easy to forget there's other stuff happening. This Paul Graham essay dispelling myths about startups is one you don't want to miss. It goes well with Marc Hedlund's tutorial... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 28, 2007 10:30 PM
Hacking Organizations: Chad Dickerson
Chad Dickerson, who I've known since he was the CTO at InfoWorld, and runs the Yahoo! Developer Network, is giving a talk about how to hack an organization. When Chad put together the Yahoo! Hack day, he had to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 28, 2007 1:00 PM
The Core of Fun: Raph Koster
Raph Koster introduces himself as an alien from another planet: a game designer. He's the author of The Theory of Fun. He starts by introducing structure in music and art with some cool audience participation. There are different dimensions... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 28, 2007 12:38 PM
Is This an Apple Conference?
This is a big hotel. There are several other conferences going on at the same time as ETech. I was in the gift shop during the break. A guy with a badge from one of the other conferences saw... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 28, 2007 12:14 PM
Learning from Muggles
Danah Boyd is talking about learning from muggles. If we consider the technologists to be the wizards, that makes the normal user a muggle. There's a real danger in designing for ourselves. Danah describes four stages people go through... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 28, 2007 11:11 AM
The Coming Age of Magic: Ubiquitous Computing User Experiences
Mike Kuniavsky(click to enlarge) Mike Kuniavsky, the founder of Adaptive Path, has a company called Thing M, a device design studio that "Lives at the intersections of ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, industrial design and materials science." He's giving a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 28, 2007 10:27 AM
IT Conversations Meetup
I just got back from the IT Conversations meetup here at ETech. I really enjoyed meeting people, talking about what they like and don't like, and hearing how they use IT Conversations. There were about a dozen people there.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 11:16 PM
Advanced Analytics in the Anonymized Data Space: Jeff Jonas
Jeff Jonas gave a great keynote this morning. (Here's a paper from IEEE Security and Privacy that explains some of this.) This afternoon he's adding context. Literally. Contexts allow seemingly unrelated records to become related. The idea is that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 4:45 PM
ETech 2007 Photos
I've posted some pictures from the Emerging Technology (ETech) conference on my gallery site.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 3:41 PM
Hierarchical Temporal Memories
Jeff Hawkins of Numenta (and also founder of Palm and Handspring) talked about brains and computers. He discussed hierarchical temporal memory in detail. There's a platform you can download and play with. I was busy listening and didn't get... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 1:21 PM
Creating Alternate Realities: Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal(click to enlarge) Jane McGonigal is a "happiness hacker." Or at least that's how I'd summarize what she said. She does this by designing alternate reality games. Alternate realities do away with limitation in an effort to explore... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 12:34 PM
AWS and Your Data Center: ETech 2007
Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, is talking about their Web services--specifically the outsourced data center products (S3, EC2, and SQS) that I've written about before and that were the subject of an IT Conversations interview I did with Doug Kaye... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 11:20 AM
Kathy Sierra
Update: Read about Kathy Sierra, Chris Locke, and Due Process. Kathy Sierra, who's blog I've come to enjoy very much, canceled her tutorial yesterday and session this morning because of death threats (warning--this link goes to graphic material) she's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 10:26 AM
Secrets of Mental Math: Arthur Benjamin
The closing keynote for Monday night, usually something fun and light, did not disappoint. The speaker was Arthur Benjamin, author of the book Secrets of Mental Math. He's a "mathemagician" doing mental math at lightening speed. He did magic... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 26, 2007 10:17 PM
IT Conversations Meetup Tuesday
Don't forget that we're having an IT Conversations Meetup tomorrow night at 7:30pm. The session in the Gregory A room of the Manchester Grand Hyatt. Doug Kaye's in town and will be joining us. Come and give us feedback,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 26, 2007 9:44 PM
O'Reilly Radar: ETech 2007
Technology, hackers, Gibson, alpha-something-or-other, future, etc., etc., etc. You've heard the O'Reilly schtick before. Tim knows you've heard it before, so he skipped it and give as a new quote from Dale Doherty: "You guys aren't pulling your weight... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 26, 2007 9:20 PM
Applied Web Heresies: ETech 2007
I really wanted to go to Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Mechanics to Social Software by Amy Jo Kim, but my inner geek won out and I went to Applied Web Heresies with Avi Bryant (slides). I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 26, 2007 2:56 PM
Coder to Co-Founder: Etech Tutorial
I'm sitting in Marc Hedlund's tutorial, Coder to Co-Founder: Entrepreneuring for Geeks. Looking him up on the Web, I found, what else, a post he'd done about twitter about how Twitter is wall for the Web (and some other... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 26, 2007 9:43 AM
IT Conversations Meetup: San Diego, March 27
I'm going to be in San Diego for O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference the end of March and thought it would be fun to have a Meetup for IT Conversations. If you're going to ETech, or are simply in San... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 27, 2007 9:34 AM
When You Pick Your Tools, Pick Those That Can Build Tools
This morning I was listening to Karl Fugel talk about tools developers need and thought about Doug Kaye. Here's why... Yesterday Doug sent out a note to a few friends asking what editor they used to writing code on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 18, 2006 10:17 AM
Atom as a Case Study Redux
I just finished listening to Tim Bray's talk on Atom from ETech. Yeah, I'm behind on listening to IT Conversations--still catching up from vacation. This is an excellent talk for anyone interested in standards, RSS, or Atom. I also... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 11, 2006 8:55 AM
Will Vonage Die?
This analysis from Art Reisman says that Vonage is going to die. Art's claim is that once the incumbent players decide that VoIP is a real challenge there's nothing to keep them from offering the service more efficiently at... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 28, 2006 1:32 PM
Using Live Clipboard
Steve Farrell sent me an example of using Ray Ozzie's Live Clipboard. Ray's talk from ETech 2006 went up last week at IT Conversations--it's worth listening to so you understand what Ray's doing. Steve is a proponent of microtemplates.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 18, 2006 10:19 AM
TechNewsRadio Interview
Steve Holden interviewed me at ETech for TechNewsRadio. We talked about ETech, attention, and digital identity.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 1, 2006 12:08 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
ETech 2006 Photos
Dave Sifry(click to enlarge) I finally was able to unload my camera and post my pictures from ETech. Enjoy. On a related note, I recently discovered that something I'm doing in my template for Gallery is making it so that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 11, 2006 6:37 PM
Mark Hurst on Email Productivity (ETech 2006)
Mark Hurst, the creator of GoodExperience.com and ThisIsBroken is speaking on Bit Literacy: A Strategy for Productivity in Your Bit-Drenched Life. Here's what bit literacy means. Mark goes specifically to email to bring the conversation down to nuts and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 9, 2006 1:19 PM
reBlog (ETech 2006)
Michael Frumin and Michal Migurski, the development team behind reBlog are showing it off. At first glance, reBlog looks like an online feedreader (with a nice interface). The difference is that reBlog is aimed at using the information in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 11:19 PM
Peter Norvig at BYU
With the reams of stuff I spewing out at ETech, there's a real danger this will get lost in the middle, but I persist. Peter Novig, Director of Search Quality at Google will be speaking at this week's CS... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 5:48 PM
Alex Russell on Comet: Beyond AJAX (ETech 2006)
Alex Russell, who works at JotSpot and did the DOJO Toolkit for JavaScript is talking about Comet and low latency data to and from browsers (slides). The subtitle is "after AJAX." The goal is responsiveness. AJAX gives you half... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 4:14 PM
Mary Hodder on iTags (ETech 2006)
Mary Hodder is talking about itags. An itag is a tag + author identity + CC license + media object. Media objects can be text, photo, video, or audio. Trusing tags means trusting the maker of the tag. By... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 3:32 PM
Christopher Payne on Windows Live (ETech 2006)
Christopher Payne from Microsoft is giving a demo of Microsoft's new live.com services. He's standing on stage in a suit. The visual discontinuity of that is jarring. His assistant, Frederick, is adding new widgets to a page, very AJAXy.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 1:41 PM
George Dyson on Turing's Cathederal (ETech 2005)
Ester Dyson introduces her brother George. She says that his job as a historian is to determine what is worthy of our attention. George talks about the "prophets" of the computer age. People who saw things long before their... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 1:25 PM
Michael Goldhaber on the Real Nature of the Attention Economy (ETech 2006)
Michael Goldhaber is speaking on the real nature of the attention economy. Michael's been working on a book about attention on this subject since the 1990's. He thinks that this conference has its feet in two paradigms: the attention... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 1:20 PM
Hans Peter Brondmo on Plum (ETech 2006)
Hans Peter Brondmo is speaking on "First You Google, But Then What?" When you have a question, you direct it to the great oracle: the search engines. The problem is that you can't make those results personal, collect them,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 12:35 PM
Joel Spolsky's Report Card (ETech 2006)
Joel Spolsky is speaking on creating blue-chip products. His formula: Make people happy (control) Think about emotions Obsess over aesthetics AJAX is an example of something that can make people happy by giving them instantaneous feedback. He points to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 11:37 AM
Brian Dear on Eventful and EVDB (ETech 2006)
Brian Dear from EVDB and Eventful is speaking on calendar as platform. His talk is title "When Do We Get the Events We Want?" He gives a quick overview of the company. EVDB stands for the Events and Venues... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 11:14 AM
Clay Shirky on Moderation Strategies (ETech 2006)
Clay Shirky is speaking about pattern languages for moderation strategies. A pattern is a combination of a goal and strategy combination that's detailed enough that you can see how to build it, but not so detailed that you can't... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 10:35 AM
Jon Udell on Seeking Attention (ETech 2006)
Jon Udell is the morning's opening keynote. We are all seekers of attention. We all have ideas we'd like to promote and agendas we'd like to publicize. So, we all make claims on other people's attention. The focus of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 10:05 AM
Microformats (ETech 2006)
Tantek Celik or Technorati and crew are doing a microformats talk. He says that microformats are more than just good class names. There are principles that keep things "micro," process that emphasized getting real, and community that minimizes duplicates.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 7:06 PM
Tim Bray on Atom (ETech 2006)
Tim Bray is speaking on Atom as a case study. RSS is the most successful use of XML in existence. If it's that successful, why replace it? Tim outlines some problems with RSS as specified: The RSS specification says... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 6:23 PM
Derek Powazek on Community
Derek Powazek is talking about new communities on the Web. He says that the Web is less about companies createing "company" towns and more about people creating their own spaces. He uses the Technorati Top 100 bloggers as examples... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 5:24 PM
Heuristicrats (ETech 2006)
In a talk on the Hunch Engine at ETech, Eric Bonabeau used the term "heuristicrat" to describe professionals who use years of professional experience in a black box decision process to limit choice. His example was an architect who... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 3:05 PM
Linda Stone on Attention
Linda Stone, speaking on Attention as the Real Aphrodisiac asks the audience these questions: I always pay attention I pay partial attention The way I use technology improves my quality of life Technology compromises the way I live my... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 1:13 PM
Sifry on the Attention Economy
Dave Sifry of Technorati is speaking on The Economy of Attention. What are the rules that guide the attention economy and how are they different than the rules we're used to in the real economy. Attention is about time... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 12:58 PM
Cory Ondrejka on Web 3.0
Cory Ondrejka from Second Life is speaking about what he things is one of the most interesting aspects of Second Life: the departure from the usual pain vs. participation graph. Even though making things in Second Life isn't easy,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 12:38 PM
Multitouch Interaction (ETech 2006)
Jeff Han, from NYU's Computer Science department is giving a demo of something called Multitouch, a new computer interface. he has a rear projection graphing table with a multitouch sensor, something not normal on a touch screen. You can... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 11:38 AM
Seth Goldstien: Attention Broker (ETech 2006)
Seth Goldstein is talking about Root Markets: Applications for the New Attention Economy. Root is an attention exchange. Is attention about money or time? Seth jokes that he's from New York and so he focuses on the money aspect... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 11:27 AM
Dick Hardt on Identity 2.0 (ETech 2006)
Dick Hardt's company has a big sponsorship presence at ETech, the badge lanyards and even the room keys bear the SXIP badge. This morning he's doing the sequel to his Identity 2.0 talk, made famous by his style and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 10:59 AM
Bruce Sterling on the Internet of Things (ETech 2006)
The evening keynote (last night) was by Bruce Sterling on the Internet of Things. This was one of those talks that is impossible to blog. Even a word-for-word transcript wouldn't do it justice because Bruce's delivery is as much... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 10:31 AM
Ray Ozzie's Clipboard for the Web (ETech 2006)
Ray Ozzie is the first keynote of the first day. He's talking about building composite applications (what he's calling mashups) on the Web. The real power is bringing composite apps to the user level. A reference to shell commands... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 6, 2006 10:34 PM
Opening Session (ETech 2006)
Tim O'Reilly is giving his traditional "O'Reilly Radar" talk. Alternately titles: Following the Alpha Geeks. What to pay attention to: Technology on track with long term trend Technology is disruptive Technology uptake is accelerating Technology is grassroots--bottom up It... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 6, 2006 9:37 PM
Rails and Ajax for Page Application Development (ETech 2006 Tutorial)
I'm in David Heinemeier Hansson's tutorial on Beneath-the-Page Application Development with Rails. His Rails tutorial from last summer remains one of my most viewed blog entries. He starts out noting that AJAX is the most important innovation for the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 6, 2006 2:43 PM
Introduction to JavaScript (ETech 2006 Tutorial)
This morning I'm in the A (Re-)Introduction to JavaScript tutorial taught be Simon Willison. Simon recommends Javascript: The Definative Guide by David Flanagan as one of the few Javascript references that's worthwhile. He hasn't found a good reference on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 6, 2006 9:51 AM
ETech Tutorials
I'm at ETech, just waiting for the the first tutorial to begin. I'm signed up for two today. This morning I'm going to A (Re-)Introduction to JavaScript taught be Simon Willison. This afternoon, I'm going to Beneath-the-Page Application Development... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 6, 2006 9:18 AM
ETech Next Week
I'm going to be at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego next week from Monday morning through Thursday afternoon. Look me up.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 3, 2006 1:57 PM
Getting Real
Last year at ETech (see you next week, BTW), I wrote about Jason Fried's talk on lessons learned building Basecamp, the online project management system from 37Signals. The talk was interesting and full of wisdom on how to build... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 3, 2006 10:33 AM
Overloading: Syntactic Heroin
ACM Queue has an article entitled Syntactic Heroin which says that user-defined overloading (ad hoc polymorphism) is a drug. User-defined overloading is a drug. At first, it gives you a quick, feel-good fix. No sense in cluttering up code... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 10, 2005 10:28 AM
PlaceSite: Making HotSpots Social
I stopped by a demo by Sean Savage this morning on PlaceSite, a system for letting people share information (like who they are, where they are, etc.) locally over Wi-Fi hotspots. Say you're in a coffee shop in downtown... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 5, 2005 11:30 AM
Domain Names and Phone Numbers
I was helping a friend with a DNS issues today and logged into NameTech, the place where he bought his name. At the top of their page is a quote from Prof. Juan Gonzales at the Univ. of Delaware... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 15, 2005 11:16 AM
Where's My Stuff?
Jon Udell says, referring to OS X's Spotlight that "desktop search feels like an anachronism in 2005." I have to disagree--at least a little. Now, I understand exactly where Jon's coming from. In San Jose a month ago, we... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 9, 2005 6:30 PM
Qwest Files Suit to Block UTOPIA
Unable to get the Utah Legislature to kill municipal broadband in Utah and rebuffed time and again at City Council meetings, Qwest has now taken the battle to the courts. Qwest filed suit Monday alleging that UTOPIA is unfairly... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 2, 2005 9:18 AM
The Continuing March of Dynamic Languages
Oracle announced Zend yesterday, an integration of PHP with their Oracle 10g database. If I were starting a small Web-based business today, I wouldn't even consider Java. I'd stick with a dynamic language like PHP, Perl, Python, or (gasp)... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 19, 2005 3:26 PM
Services and Contracts
My panel on services and contracts went pretty well, I think. We went through many of the issues I identified earlier. A few new things came up that I hadn't thought through. First, we discussed WS-Policy and some of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 5, 2005 3:04 PM
Distributed Back-up Systems
I've been interested in distributed back-up systems for some time. For example, I'd love to see a P2P client given to BYU students that allows them to commit a percentage of their disk to a distributed back-up system in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 11, 2005 10:58 AM
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
Longtail Slides
Chris Anderson has generously made the slides from his presentation on the longtail available for download.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 18, 2005 3:04 PM
Life Hacks Live
Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann (click to enlarge) Danny O'Brien offers a recap from last year (as bumper stickers): Hackers love plaintext My other app is in ~/bin: hackers use scripts Super prolific geeks do it in public with... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2005 12:52 PM
Chris Anderson on The Long Tail
Joe Kraus and Chris Anderson (click to enlarge) Chris Anderson is talking about the long tail. When you plot a powerlaw on a log-log scale, you get an line with negative slope. When you plot movie revenues, however, you... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2005 10:59 AM
Lessig on Remix
Larry Lessig on Remix (click to enlarge) With the theme of the conference, you have to know that Larry Lessig is going to be one of the keynotes. I've seen Larry speak on this topic a few times in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2005 9:42 AM
Lessons Learned Building Basecamp
San Diego (click to enlarge) I wrote about Basecamp a few days ago. Jason Fried, president of 37Signal, the company behind Basecamp is talking about the lessons he learned building it. Brian would like to get Jason out to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 16, 2005 3:38 PM
Please Mr. Carrier, May I Add Some Value?
Clay Shirky talks an imaginary phone (click to enlarge) Clay Shirky, who studies the "recently possible" is speaking on the topic of phone as platform. He's presenting student work from his homebase, ITP. First up is "PacManhattan" a PacMan-like... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 16, 2005 12:06 PM
Bits and Atoms
Neil Gershenfeld speaks on Bits and Atoms (click to enlarge) Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT. He calls for a a digitization of fabrication. He teaches a class called "How to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 16, 2005 9:27 AM
Just Use HTTP
Sam is talking about using HTTP. He reference's Tim Bray's WS-Pagecount article on complexity. The assumption is that HTTP is simple. Its not. There are lots of things to watch out for. Starting with identity: when is "a" an... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 15, 2005 5:45 PM
Nelson Minar at the Google AdWords API
Nelson Minar on the Google AdWords API (click to enlarge) AdWords is the little ads on the side of Google's page and the also show up on third party sites. The traditional way to do campaign management is done... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 15, 2005 4:50 PM
Other ETech Resources
Here are a few other ETech resources: Dave Weinberger is covering the conference in some detail. Flickr photos of ETech Also, today Yahoo! and O'Reilly announced the Buzz Game. Its a market for search term futures. Interesting in its... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 15, 2005 3:41 PM
Jeff Bezos Introduces A9.com
Jeff Bezos introduces A9.com (click to enlarge) Jeff Bezos is trying to introduce A9 to the crowd and his PC just asked if he wanted to do an "Automated Update" and he accidentally clicked "yes." People are laughing hard.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 15, 2005 11:17 AM
Danny Hillis on Applied Minds
Danny Hillis (click to enlarge) Danny Hillis (who founded Thing Machines, the Long Now, and lots of other cool stuff) is speaking about his current business: Applied Minds, which he calls a "maketank" as opposed to a thinktank. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 15, 2005 10:54 AM
O'Reilly's Radar: Remix Patterns
Tim O'Reilly delivers O'Reilly's Radar (click to enlarge) Tim's keynote was on patterns for remixing. Patterns consist of three parts: an issue, a prescription, and examples. Here are some of Tim's patterns (I missed much of it): Issue: A... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 15, 2005 9:52 AM
Web Services Mashup
There were several good tutorials yesterday and unfortunately, I couldn't attend them all, but I did run across this great list of Web services APIs from the Web Services Mashup tutorial. I'm listening to Rael's opening keynote on the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 15, 2005 9:39 AM
Emerging Technology
I'm at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference this week. Today I was in a little early, so I went to Ben Hammersley's tutorial on Atom. My conclusion: Atom seems like a useful evolution of the RSS idea that draws on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 14, 2005 5:21 PM