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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
Transactional Memory
We all know that Intel and AMD have punted. They can't keep building larger, faster chips for a variety of technical and economic reasons, so they have started placing multiple cores on a single chip. This, in theory, maintains... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 28, 2008 9:29 AM
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
Trust-Based Recommendation Systems
Reid Andersen from Microsoft Research is talking about trust-based recommendation systems (PDF). To build a personalized recommendation, you need a trust graph among users. What system should you use to determine the recommendation? The researchers use an axiomatic approach.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 23, 2008 2:31 AM
Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network
Collect 150Gb/day of compressed log files from MSN instant messenger over thirty days (June 2006) and you find on a typical day you get 1 billion conversations, 93 million users logged in with 65 million of those actually engaging... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 22, 2008 9:35 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
Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?
Update: Its really Office 2008... Microsoft Office 2007 on OS X is a complete pig. I was so looking forward to finally having an Intel native version of Office so I wouldn't have to put up with long start... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 3, 2008 9:30 PM
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
World Wide Telescope
Miscrosofts World Wide Telescope(click to visit) Scoble says that when he visited Microsoft a few weeks ago he was blown away by the World Wide Telescope. Actually he said it made him cry. The WWT isn't available yet, but... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 1, 2008 9:55 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
Good News and Bad News: Office 2008
Gizmondo has a hands on report about Office 2008 for the Mac. The good news: it's Intel native, as you'd expect. The bad news: they've "updated" the user interface, as you'd expect. The old Office running under Rosetta is... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 2, 2008 8:35 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
Exploiting Online Games
I had a fascinating discussion with Gary McGraw last week about his latest book Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems. For the next two days I was telling everyone about it. The issues surrounding online game security are... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 13, 2007 4:44 PM
What Should I Buy? Parallels or Fusion?
InfoWorld asked me to do a head-to-head review of Parallels and Fusion. That review appeared today. As a frequent user of both virtualization packages, I really enjoyed this review since it gave me an excuse to dig deep on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 22, 2007 3:02 PM
Microsoft Keeps Plugging Away
Microsoft release the next Zune to very little fanfare compared with what Jobs generated with even the most recent iPod refresh. For all the crap Microsoft took over the Zune ("oh look! it comes in brown!"), you have to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 3, 2007 1:33 PM
Think Similarly
This post at CrunchGear showing a 1989 Apple ad encouraging people to "think different" by challenging the status quo, followed by a video about Apple not allowing third party apps on the iPhone touched a nerve following the most... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 1, 2007 8:41 AM
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
Why Vista?
I just put an article up at Between the Lines wondering why anyone would use Vista in a virtual machine if their primary goal is to be able to run Windows applications on their Mac.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 6, 2007 3:51 PM
Talking Research with Rick Rashid
This week's technometria podcast is a discussion with Rick Rashid. Not only is he the head of Microsoft Research, but he's also the guy who started it. Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 29, 2007 1:39 PM
Zune Phone
This add for the Zune phone wasn't as funny as I'd hoped it would be, but it did make me chuckle a few times.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 28, 2007 7:48 PM
An Accidental Simula User
Luca Cardelli is one of the big guns in programming language theory--consistently producing interesting and important results over several decades. His paper (with Peter Wagner) "On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism" which I read as a graduate student... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 23, 2007 3:46 PM
Whoa! Facebook Returning Free PHP Code...
I just clicked on the photos application in Facebook and got back some PHP code. I won't publish it here, for obvious reasons, but this is the header: <?php /* -------------------------------------------------------- My Photos - html/photos.php --- Author: Jared S.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 10, 2007 9:14 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
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
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
Stupid Web Design Tricks
I found this list of 19 things not to do when building a Web site. The first, DO NOT resize the user's browser window, EVER resonated with me because I was reading a site last week that had some... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 21, 2007 8:39 AM
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
Understanding Splogs
Have you ever wondered exactly how splogging (spam blogs) work? What's the structure of that industry (and it is an industry)? Yi-Min Wang and Ming Ma (of Microsoft Research) and Yuan Niu and Hao Chen (of UC Davis) have... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 2:46 PM
Best Practices for Using Info Cards
Mike Jones is pointing to a newly released guideline for how to put InfoCards on your Web site: Patterns for Supporting Information Cards at Web Sites: Personal Cards for Sign up and Signing In.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 1, 2007 3:01 PM
Jeannette Wing on Computational Thinking
Tonight is Jeannette Wing's general interest talk as part of her Organick Memorial Lecture at the University of Utah. The talk is on computational thinking. Here's an article she wrote for ACM Communications. These slides are close to the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 25, 2007 8:40 PM
Bruce Perens on Software Patents
Last week Scott and I talked to Bruce Perens for the Technometria podcast. Bruce happened to be in Utah (although we did the interview over the phone) because of Brainshare. He wasn't in town to attend, but to protest... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 29, 2007 10:45 AM
Beautiful and Disturbing
Charlain has a humorous and interesting look at what it's like to get a new machine with Vista on it. Beautiful and disturbing.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 26, 2007 4:03 PM
Cancel or Allow?
I have no idea what security feature in Vista this Apple ad is making fun of, but it's still hilarious. I also like seeing the IT guy tape the camera to PCs head in this one. I know IT... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 7, 2007 8:42 PM
Security Indicators Are Largely Ignored
A paper to be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in May called "The Emperor's New Security Indicators: An evaluation of website authentication and the effect of role playing on usability studies" (PDF) shows that users... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 6, 2007 6:19 PM
Making CardSpace and OpenID Interoperable
Microsoft, JanRain, Sxip, and VeriSign have agreed to work together to make OpenID and CardSpace interoperate. This isn't totally unexpected since the community has been moving forward in this direction. Kim Cameron has been discussing the details of how... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 6, 2007 11:14 AM
Calendars, Concept Count, and User Experience
Jon Udell has a detailed post on connecting Google Calendar and Outlook, but that's just the vehicle for talking about "concept counts"--the number of difficult concepts a person must understand and sort out to accomplish some task. Jon enumerates... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 31, 2007 11:35 AM
Open Source As Truth
Matt Asay, who co-hosts the weekly Technometria podcast I do on IT Conversations, has written an excellent essay on the pragmatism of open source. Matt uses Richardson's William James as a jumping off point. Matt says: Why do I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 31, 2007 11:19 AM
Building Living Software
Steve Yegge rants, in reference to software design, that crap is still crap, no matter how many rubies you swallowed. If software design interests you, then you'll enjoy this--even if you don't agree. As I was reading this, I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 19, 2007 3:10 PM
Buying Windows Vista
A while back, I posted links to reviews of Windows Vista. That page is getting quite a bit of play and undoubtedly, my flippant summary at the end isn't much help for people trying to make buying decisions, so... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 16, 2007 11:00 AM
Detailed Windows Vista Review
Update: See my cheatsheet on Windows Vista Buying Advice for the easy answer of what you need to buy. Have you been wondering just exactly what Window's Vista is and when to upgrade? The most detailed review I've found... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 9, 2007 10:16 AM
IEEE Spectrum Radio Shorts
The edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio I just published is a small experiment. Some of the features we get from Spectrum are shorter than our normal format. I decided we'd combine them into a single show. For example, this... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 3, 2007 5:37 PM
Introducing User-Centric Identity
Doc Searls(click to enlarge) The Internet Identity Workshop (2006B) has begun. I flew in this morning and spent the time before the conference started shopping for things we need for snacks, etc. Today is not an unconference event--that starts tomorrow.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 4, 2006 6:00 PM
IIW2006B Is Next Week
We're getting ready for another excellent IIW next week. There are good people coming and the numbers are working out just right (we've got about 100 people signed up as of today). It's still not too late to sign... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 30, 2006 3:34 PM
In Praise of IT Conversations' Audio Engineers
I published a panel discussion of Web 2.0 from SofTECH last week. Listen to it--I think you're like it. In fact I was so sure it was good content that I put it in the production queue against the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 21, 2006 8:07 PM
CTO Breakfast Report for September
Carl Youngblood told us of his experience as the sole technical person in a small construction loan wholesaling company. He's building a Rails application to automate the process and using an Indian outsourcing company to do much of the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 26, 2006 2:40 PM
Microsoft's Open Specification Promise
Yesterday Microsoft made an important announcement regarding the intellectual property that they have surrounding many of the WS-* specification. I wrote about it at Between the Lines. You can find details at Kim Cameron's blog.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 13, 2006 9:31 AM
Identity Open Space and DIDW Event: Register Now!
We're doing an identity open space on Monday Sept. 11, 2006 in Santa Clara in conjunction with Digital ID World. DIDW starts Monday afternoon and we're going to do 3/4's of a day of open space beforehand to talk... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 11, 2006 12:00 PM
ClaimID Launches
ClaimID has launched. ClaimID is a service that allows you to aggregate and contextualize URLs that are about you. So, if you've got a common name or there's material about you that's hard to find, you can make sure... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 26, 2006 10:08 AM
Towards and Open Identity Layer
The first afternoon session was on Towards and Open Identity Layer and Trusted Exchange: What Might it Look Like? The panelists were Paul Trevithick, Parity Communications; Dale Olds, Novell; Tony Nadalin, IBM; Kim Cameron, Microsoft; and Marc Rotenberg, EPIC.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 20, 2006 1:38 PM
Novell's Bandit
Novell announced the Bandit project yesterday. Bandit open-sources key identity management technologies and creates projects for extending them. From the press release: The Bandit project is focused on delivering a single, consistent experience of digital identity and includes several... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 13, 2006 10:43 AM
Google's Serendipitous Uses
Derrick Story has a nifty tip for using GMail to convert Word docs to HTML. Just send it as an attachment to your GMail account and then select "View as HTML" next to the attachment. I just tried it... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 30, 2006 9:19 PM
Identity Management Panel
I attended an identity management panel moderated by Arnaud Sahuguet of Google. On the panel were Rick Hull, Bell Labs, Conor Cahill, Intel, Kim Cameron, Microsoft, Mike Neuenschwander, Burton Group, and Stefan Brands, Credentica & McGill University. Arnaud started... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 25, 2006 9:11 AM
Social Computing Symposium
Ross Mayfield is blogging the Social Computing Symposium. There a lot of information about games and their application and social impact. Good stuff, given my questions about the space.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2006 1:35 PM
IIW2006: Tuesday Morning Sessions
Monday Dinner(click to enlarge) Last night's conference dinner was very well attended and very good. We started the morning in true unconference fashion by putting together the agenda. This happens by having anyone who wants to lead a session write... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 2, 2006 11:31 AM
IIW2006: SXIP, InfoCard, XRI, and Doc
The new "just right" room(click to enlarge) We moved upstairs to accommodate the crowd and ended up with a lot more elbow room. Dick Hardt was the first speaker after the break. he gave a new version of his famous... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 1, 2006 5:54 PM
Kim Clark on Modularity
I attended a UTC (formerly UITA) breakfast this morning where Kim Clark, President of BYU Idaho and former Dean of the Harvard Business School, was the featured speaker. (photos) Pres. Clark talked about harnessing the power of modularity. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 26, 2006 2:01 PM
DRM Costs
A c|net test shows that DRM is computationally expensive and results in a measurable drain on battery life. For Microsoft's WMA 10 DRM on a Creative Zen Vision:M, DRM resulted in 25% less battery life. The iPod and Fairplay... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 20, 2006 9:17 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
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
If Microsoft Sold the iPod...
This parody of what the iPod packaging would look like if Microsoft sold it is simply too good not to share. Update: The original link apparently isn't working anymore. Here's another, but if that doesn't work for some reason,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 1, 2006 9:58 AM
Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas
Alan Kay preopares for his talk(click to enlarge) Alan Kay's evening talk is entitled Learners, Powerful ideas, and the $100 Laptop. He says that he's never found the right order for the ideas in the title. Computer companies in the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 23, 2006 10:47 PM
Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron?
Alan Kay(click to enlarge) Alan Kay's title slide, up during the intro says Is the Best Way to Predict the Future to {Invent,Prevent} It? with the {Invent,Prevent} alternating between each other. He jokes that this afternoon's talk can be summed... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 23, 2006 10:36 PM
Ron Kohavi on Data Mining and eCommerce
Today's colloquium was Ron Kohavi from Microsoft research. His talk was titled: Focus the Mining Beacon: Lessons and Challenges from the World of E-Commerce (PPT). Ron was at Blue Martini Software where he was responsible for data mining. They... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 16, 2006 1:49 PM
JavaSchools, Scheme, and Sin
Joel Spolsky has a great essay on the perils of JavaSchools, those CS programs that adopt Java (or .Net, to be fair) because it is easy for students to learn. In it, he sings the praises of learning Scheme... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 8, 2006 10:49 AM
Internet Explorer 7 Beta
Microsoft has released a public beta of Internet Explorer 7. Supposedly more secure, less prone to phising attacks, blah, blah blah.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 31, 2006 11:48 AM
The Tolerance Continuum
Dion Hitchcliffe has a nice graphic on his blog showing a tolerance continuum. Notice at the top are things like HTML, RSS and folkonomies. At the bottom are ontologies, RDF, and enterprise applications like CRM and ERP. I spoke... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 29, 2005 5:17 PM
Winer Nails It
This is so true: If the people promoting an idea say nasty things about people who differ with them, and if they have to take their swipes anonymously, they must not have a lot to say that's substantial, and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 28, 2005 7:03 PM
International Association of Software Architects
I didn't know there was an International Association of Software Architects. Did you? Membership appears to be free.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 22, 2005 12:25 PM
More Diebold Hacking Demonstrations
The Miami Herald has an article on some recent demonstrations that aimed to show Florida officials how easy it would be to hack into electronic voting machines and change the outcome of the election. (They've also got some really... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 19, 2005 1:54 PM
Tech State or State Tech?
John Palfrey, Executive Director of Harvard's Berkman Center, made some remarks a few days ago on the proper role of government with respect to open standards. He did so in the context of Microsoft trying to use the Massachusetts... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 16, 2005 8:35 AM
TPM and Positive ID
There's an article at MSNBC about how Trusted Computing Platform (TCP) chips, already installed in many computers, could be used to provide "positive ID" on the Internet and end anonymity. I find articles dealing with Internet identity in the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 15, 2005 9:45 AM
Capability Discovery for Identity Protocols
While is possible that a single identity system will emerge for the Internet, it's not likely. Hence the claim by Microsoft's InfoCard to be a "meatasystem" for identity. That is, an infrastructure that other identities can ride on. Alternately,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2005 12:50 PM
IIW2005 Talks
If you missed IIW2005, or were there and wanted to hear something over again, the audio from the conference is now online. A big thanks to Scott Mace for recording the workshop and post processing the audio. You can... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 14, 2005 8:32 AM
Twelve Reasons Not to Use Microsoft
Robert Scoble lists twelve reasons people tell him they don't use Microsoft. The thread has over 100 comments. Interesting reading.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 3, 2005 2:38 PM
Achieving Ubiquity With an Identity Metasystem
Brett McDowall, who gave a presentation on Liberty at IIW2005, has started a blog. At IIW2005, he said "the world belongs to those who show up" and his blog is an effort to "show up" in the blogosphere. Brett... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 2, 2005 6:17 PM
IIW2005: Mike Jones on Identity Metasystems
We're trying to get to a world where there is a ubiquitous, user-centric identity solution for the Internet. The result should be a safer, more trustworthy Internet. Mike is showing a user experience for InfoCards, Microsoft's proposed identity solution.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 11:47 AM
Yet Another Decentralized Identity Interoperability System
There have been several proposals for Internet identity systems over the past 18 months or so, including Microsoft's InfoCard proposal, SXIP, and several URL-based systems including LID, OpenID, and Passel. Today Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal/Six Apart and inventor of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 24, 2005 9:43 PM
Means, Motive, and Opportunity
I just finished a post at Between the Lines on the importance of the Massachusetts vs. Microsoft battle over whether Office is included in the Massachusetts enterprise architecture. Bottom line: government CIOs have had the means and motive to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 17, 2005 11:25 AM
Roadblocks to Ubiquity
In a post about Dick Hardt's Identity 20 talk, Jon Udell makes an important statement: Even a tech-savvy person like me has a hard time envisioning, never mind comparing, the interaction scenarios proposed by various identity schemes including Sxip,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 10, 2005 10:21 AM
SOA Governance: What We Can Learn from Cities
I've made the analogy between digital identity management architectures and city planning. A recent article in the Architecture Journal (from Microsoft) takes this analogy to it's conclusion with a well written piece that outlines the parallels and shows how... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 4, 2005 10:19 AM
Jon Udell's Interview with Bill Gates
After engaging in a hand-slapping contest with Napoleon Dynamite for control of Microsoft, Bill Gates sat down with Jon Udell for an interview. Jon has the podcast and transcript versions available on his blog. It's well worth reading--Jon geeks... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 15, 2005 3:38 PM
You Want Revolution?
One more data point on the AJAX hype cycle: The Netscape threat that led Microsoft to wage the browser war and cross swords with antitrust regulators around the world is -- at long last -- poised to become reality.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 11, 2005 10:48 AM
Testing as the Open Source Killer App
Kim Polece, from SpikeSource, is talking about software testing in open source software. She starts by talking about the architecture of participation. This architecture is characterized by: Commoditization of software Network-enabled collaboration Software customizability and the shift from an... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 3, 2005 12:04 PM
O'Reilly Radar (OSCON 2005)
Tim O'Reilly's giving the traditional O'Reilly Radar, a talk from Tim about what he sees coming down the pike and the "faint signals of the future" along with Nat Torkington, the conference chair. One of the things that was... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 3, 2005 11:55 AM
Paul Graham on open source and blogging
I posted some of what Paul Graham said on open source and blogging tonight over at Between the Lines.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 2, 2005 10:14 PM
Announcing the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2005)
There's been considerable conversation around identity on the Internet, or what some would call grassroots identity. Providing identity services between people, websites, and organizations that may or may not have any kind of formalized relationship is a different problem... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 1, 2005 5:35 AM
Using XML Namespaces
Jon Udell's column in this week's InfoWorld is about XML's quirky namespaces. Jon points out that recent moves by Microsoft and Apple have brought namespaces to the fore and people will have to deal with them sooner or later.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 21, 2005 2:33 PM
Seven Flaws of Identity
I'm at Burton Group's Catalyst conference today. I'll be blogging some things here and some over at Between the Lines. I just put Jamie Lewis' keynote up there. I've also got some pictures online. Mike Neuenschwander, an associate research... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 13, 2005 10:54 AM
Identity Gang at Catalyst
I spent yesterday afternoon in an identity BOF meeting in San Diego. (See pictures at Kaliya's Flickr site.) As you might expect, there's plenty of people with an interest in identity systems at Burton Group's Catalyst conference and so... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 13, 2005 9:12 AM
Trying Out InfoCard
If you're interested in exploring InfoCard, Microsoft's implementation of the identity metasystem proposed by Kim Cameron, Andy Harjanto has detailed instructions on how to get started.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 20, 2005 3:29 PM
OSCON 2005
I registered for OSCON today. I'll see you there. I'm hoping we can do an identity meta system BOF there and discuss open source opportunities in the metasystem Microsoft is proposing.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 20, 2005 3:16 PM
Joe Sixpack and Security Tokens
Eric Norlin asks whether anyone else believes "Joe Sixpack in Ogallala, Nebraska [will whip] out his USB token to encrypt and secure his online banking transaction." This is in response to recent comments by Dave Steeves of Microsoft on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 14, 2005 10:17 AM
What AJAX Doesn't Do
Rohit Khare has an analysis at InfoWorld about the problem AJAX doesn't solve: pushing data from the server to the client. AJAX is strictly one-way, pulling data with XMLHttpRequest. Rohit ought to know--he founded KnowNow, a company that makes... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 31, 2005 8:29 AM
Fun With Mach-Style Dynamic Libraries and Xerces
I've had a student working on creating a Scheme interface for Berkeley DbXml for the last few weeks. He left for an internship at Microsoft last week and so I thought I'd pick up where he left off, normalize... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 27, 2005 9:13 PM
About InfoCard
Missing Digital ID World last week also meant that I missed the coming out party for Microsoft's proposal on digital identity: InfoCard. InfoCard is an identity metasystem, designed to build identity systems on top of. InfoCard is Kim Cameron's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 20, 2005 10:46 AM
Toby Redshaw on SOA
I'm at the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum today. I'm running a panel on Services and Contracts later this morning. San Jose is rainy, but warm. It's actually kind of pleasant. The room is packed. Apparently they were turning people... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 5, 2005 10:39 AM
The Strange Pleasure of Upgrading Software
Apple's release of OS 10.4 (aka Tiger) inspired an editorial in the NY Times on the pleasure of upgrading. Like many Apple computer users, I'm in a pleasant state of expectation. I've ordered Apple's updated operating system, but it... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 2, 2005 11:11 AM
Is WS-MetadataExchange Really Necessary?
I'll admit it: I don't really get WS-MetadataExchange (or WS-MEX, as it's affectionately known). I understand why someone might want to get the Schema, WSDL, and WS-Policy data for a service. I'm just not clear on why a simple... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 28, 2005 10:35 AM
At Microsoft Wednesday
I'm going to be at Microsoft Wednesday morning talking to Kim Cameron. It's kind of a quick trip: in Tuesday evening and out Wednesday afternoon late.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 25, 2005 2:23 PM