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The Run to Ubiquity

Craig Burton has written a nice essay on why software infrastructure behaves differently, economically speaking, than other products and why that upsets the natural inclination most people have relative to protectionism. That, of course, is what the whole net... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 15, 2008 9:45 AM

EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems

Rich Wolski from University of California, Santa Barbara is speaking about an open source implementation of cloud computing that has an interface compatible with Amazon's EC2 called Eucalyptus. Rich does research on grid computing. He's been looking for the... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 24, 2008 11:05 AM

Government Data: the Good and the Bad

While I'm at Velocity, Personal Democracy Forum is happening on the other side of the US. David Stephenson was kind enough to send me a slide share of the talk he'll be giving there on government data feeds and... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 23, 2008 9:00 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

Cloud Computing: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee of Google

Main hall where keynotes were held. I love the red slip covers on the chairs. They were more comfortable than your standard hotel chair. (click to enlarge) The opening keynote at WWW2008 is Dr. Kai-Fu Lee of Google. Before... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 22, 2008 8:04 PM

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

Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2

With Amazon's Web services, you've been able to store stuff in S3 or SimpleDB. You've also been able to fire up as many machine instances as you liked with storage that went away when you shut the machine down.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 14, 2008 7:10 AM

What's the @ in Twitter?

Pretty much everyone at Kynetx has started using Twitter. That led to a new crop of my other friends starting to tweet as well. Today @fulling asked my "what's the @"? He didn't know he was opening up a... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 3, 2008 4:05 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

ActionStreams: Follow Me Around the Net

Adding your IT Conversations profile to Action Streams(click to enlarge) The more you use sites on the Web for keeping track of our online lives and sharing things with friends, the more you'd like to have a place on... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 1, 2008 9:12 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

Dr. Mendel Rosenblum

GigaOM has an interesting interview with Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, the Chief Scientist at VMWare. We went down a rat hole on how we built the data centers. I am not surprised with all the problems we are having with... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 27, 2007 10:41 AM

Amazon's SimpleDB

I just posted piece at Between the Lines on Amazon's latest announcement: SimpleDB, a database service in the cloud. I gave it the title "Economics that are impossible to stop" because that what I think Amazon's doing: changing the... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 14, 2007 4:28 PM

Google Chart API

Google has released a chart API that returns PNG files from an HTTP GET. The following types of charts are available: Line chart Bar chart Pie chart Venn diagram Scatter plot The chart to the right was created using... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 7, 2007 8:53 AM

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

Syndication Oriented Architectures

Two of the people I respect the most, Jon Udell and Rohit Khare are together in one podcast: Jon's latest from his weekly Interviews With Innovators podcast on IT Conversations. Jon has a short write-up on his blog about... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 11, 2007 8:47 PM

A Metadata Interface for Spreadsheets

Mike Farmer asks why spreadsheets (including Apple's new Numbers) don't include ways of getting at data. Now that we have an easy way to assemble our data and make it look great we need a way to get at... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 13, 2007 9:59 AM

Using Amazon S3 with Google Earth

One of my Masters students, Sam Curren, posted a great explanation of how he's using Amazon's S3 service with Google maps to make network links just as fast as the layers inside Google Earth. He's the creator of ActiveTrails.com,... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 31, 2007 2:01 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 First Impressions

Waiting for the iPhone in SLC at the Apple store(click to enlarge) A little less than a year ago, I asked "what mobile device should I buy?" I received a lot of good advice on different phones, but in... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 2, 2007 10:52 AM

Java Framework Round-Up

Matt Raible of Raible Designs gave this morning's keynote presentation comparing Java Web frameworks (slide - PDF). Matt started off with an overview of the pros and cons of each framework, as he saw them. Java Server Faces or... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 26, 2007 10:01 AM

CAS: Simple Authentication

Ken McCrery, from Virginia Tech gave a presentation at JA-SIG on their experience using Central Authentication Service (CAS) to provide single sign-on and single sign-off for their campus systems. CAS is an authentication system originally created by Yale University... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 25, 2007 11:47 AM

Using XRDS

Back when people were trying to bring OpenID, LID, and i-names together, something called Yadis was born. At the time, it was all pretty abstract to me, but over time I've come to understand more of the details. Yadis... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 31, 2007 11:26 AM

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

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

Marc Hadley on WADL: a RESTful API Description Language

Marc Hadley (from Sun Microsystems) is giving a talk called "Describing Web Applications - WADLing with Java." WADL is a RESTful description language for Web APIs. WADL comprises resource, method, request, and response descriptions. Marc gives an example using... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 4:53 PM

I've Got Fiber to My House

Utopia truck ready for install(click to enlarge) Utopia is Utah's large-scale municipal-broadband project. My city, Lindon, was one of the first supporters of the project and all winter I've watched in anticipation as crews dug up the lawns in... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 3, 2007 10:09 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

Making SOA Governance Collaborative

The irony of loosely coupled SOA systems is that they require more, not less rules. Governance manages the rule making process. My InfoWorld feature on SOA governance Teaming up for SOA came out this week. I was writing this... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2007 10:51 PM

Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for Feb 2007

Here are the top ten shows on IT Conversations, by downloads, for February 2007. If you're looking for something good on IT Conversations, these shows would be a nice place to start. Anibal Acevedo Vila - Tech Nation (No... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 1, 2007 9:22 PM

OpenID Economics Centers on Relying Parties

Tim Bray has written a post saying that OpenID seems pretty useless and then points out some problems and possible solutions. The ironic thing is I can't argue with many of his points, but come to a very different... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 26, 2007 4:46 PM

Controlling Amazon's EC2 with Capistrano and Rake

Steve Spigarelli sent me a link to this description of how to control EC2 from rake, the Ruby build manager. The implementation uses Capistrano, a Ruby utility for executing multiple commands on remote server in parallel. This is very... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 16, 2007 3:56 PM

Building Newsletters for IT Conversations

I was a little late getting this week's IT Conversations newsletter out because I was trying to finish my tool for building the newsletter. I like building tools because they help me leverage my time. The newsletter tool is... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 15, 2007 10:17 PM

CTO Breakfast Report: The No-Employee Business

At this months' CTO Breakfast we had a long discussion about preparing students for careers in software this morning. We debated how much students need to know real tools like Subversion, Eclipse, Ant, and so on versus knowing how... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 15, 2007 11:44 AM

Using Amazon Web Services

I just posted a piece at Between the Lines about our latest Technometria podcast with Jeff Barr and Doug Kaye. We discussed using Amazon Web Services to build sophisticated Web applications. Lots of good things in the podcast about... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 13, 2007 4:00 PM

Top 150 Tech Heroes on IT Conversations

On wednesday SYS-CON published their final list of 150 all time technology heroes. The list is a mix of people who might have made the list if it were published 10 or even 20 years ago (like Claude Shannon)... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 9, 2007 1:54 PM

Funding Public Radio (and ITC) with VRM

In a post at Linux Journal about identity and VRM, Doc Searls says that rather than boil the VRM ocean, he would rather pick a specific problem. Beyond cash for goods or services, I would like the option of... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 5, 2007 10:04 PM

Church Networks

The United Methodist Church (UMC) has a online social network (with some funny URLS). The network is similar to other social networks: create a profile page, make your blog, link to friends, etc. The difference, as explained on the... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 5, 2007 8:53 PM

Using Amazon's Web Services for Sophisticated Applications

I just put a post up at Between the Lines about Doug Kaye's use of Amazon's Web services for hosting sophisticated applications. One look at the block diagram on Doug's site will convince you that this is substantially more... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 5, 2007 11:51 AM

Governance As Collaboration: Managing Layers 8 and 9

I'm doing a feature for InfoWorld on SOA governance and collaboration. The genesis was a short piece I did for InfoWorld on emerging collaboration options. Somehow Eric Knorr and I got talking about how SOA was a formalization of... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 25, 2007 7:54 PM

January CTO Breakfast Report

We talked about the recent SHA-1 hack and the MD5 exploits that are available. Lockcrack (a password cracking program) apparently has a table of pre computed hashes now installed that make cracking many hashes a job of just a... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 25, 2007 10:24 AM

YouTube For eGovernment

David Stephenson's arguing that YouTube will prove itself a critical tool for emergency management. Government agencies could already make much better use of video, podcasts, and screencasts than they do. Once they catch onto their importance, they'll need to... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 11, 2007 10:59 AM

Building Reservations System - Volunteers Needed

I've been asked by the Heber Valley Camp (HVC) to help them build a reservations system. HVC is an 8500 acre camp east of Heber Utah that is used by young women's groups from the LDS Church. The camp... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 26, 2006 12:01 PM

The S Stands for Simple

I'm neck deep trying to get a paper out today, so I won't be blogging much, but in the meantime, if you're interested in Web Services, go read Pete Lacey's The S Stands for Simple. I laughed out loud... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 20, 2006 10:51 AM

Virtual Regionalism

David Stephenson has written an Op-Ed piece for the Boston Globe calling on Massachusetts Governor-elect Deval Patrick to use the Web to create better state government. David lists several examples of how eGovernment initiatives in other states have made... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 13, 2006 9:35 AM

Web Services and IDEA

Sears Tower(click to enlarge) I spent yesterday in Chicago giving a talk on Web services to the Illinois Data Exchange Affiliates (IDEA). IDEA is a group of seven northern Illinois counties and over 200 municipal governments that was formed to... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 10, 2006 6:28 PM

Managing Your Online Reputation--With a Little Help

Wired has an article about reputation management services that are springing up on Web. Michael Fertik and his partners originally conceived of ReputationDefender as a way for parents to protect their children from potentially damaging postings to social networking... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 8, 2006 4:56 PM

FCW Government CIO Conference

Hotel Del Coronado(click to enlarge) I've been at the Federal Computer Week Government CIO conference today in San Diego. I was asked to speak on Digital Identity and they were even good enough to give away some copies of my... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 7, 2006 9:39 PM

CTO Breakfast Report for October

I posted a piece on why mobile data centers matter at Between the Lines. My thoughts were in response to the most recent Gillmor Gang where Sun's new mobile data centers were discussed. Another interesting tidbit from that show... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2006 9:49 PM

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

DIDW Opener

Phil Becker and Rob Clyde(click to enlarge) Our IOS event ended at 3pm. We had 5 sessions--too short, really, to get into the spirit of the event, but there were about 80 people there and lots of good discussion. We'll... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 11, 2006 4:56 PM

Hacking Diebold

Nick Barker sent me a link to a web page that shows (in about the most annoying way possible) how a Diebold electronic voting machine can be hack in 4 minutes with $12 worth of tools. I didn't look... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 6, 2006 7:51 AM

Using Amazon's EC2

Jon Udell has a screencast of an application he wrote running on Amazon's just announced EC2 metered compute platform. According to Amazon, each instance "predictably provides the equivalent of a system with a 1.7Ghz Xeon CPU, 1.75GB of RAM,... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 24, 2006 2:25 PM

Campaign Sign Mashups

Bryan Catherman's put an interesting article about Pete Ashdown's campaign sign mashup on UtahPolitics.org. I also mentioned it at Between the Lines.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 21, 2006 10:50 AM

Podcast Transcripts Via CastingWords

Jon Udell is transcribing his podcasts using CastingWords. (Also see Jon's earlier review of the service.) His bill? $260 for 620 minutes of audio. That's darn cheap. Jon reports that the results are surprisingly accurate, but he edits them... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 15, 2006 7:11 PM

Making Public Data Public

The form that public data takes is important to me. When governments make data available in the right way, it can be reused--mashed up--by others to create new eGovernment applications that governments don't have the time, interest, or money... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 15, 2006 1:08 PM

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

Building Cars With Small Teams

Ariel Atom front view(click to enlarge) This video about the Ariel Atom is fun to watch. This would be a great car to drive. The best quote from the video: "anyone who wants to know what a car should be... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 8, 2006 10:54 AM

Crying Out for a RESTful Service Interface Description Language

Dave Rosenberg is frustrated with Web 2.0 apps that don't play well together: If you haven't seen any of the 37 Signals stuff, it's great. Easy to use, well-designed etc. But even they don't offer a completely integrated suite... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 29, 2006 11:54 AM

Using Web Analytics Tools

Paul Allen says that this article on using Web analytics well is one of the best he's seen. I use analytics everyday on my own blog to see what keywords people are using to find things I've written, which... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 28, 2006 9:42 AM

Testing as an SOA Management Strategy

"Testing isn't an event" says John Michelsen, the Chief Architect and a co-founder of iTKO, Inc. I was the moderator on an InfoWorld Webcast this afternoon where John presented. SOA brings new challenges to testing. Testing individual services is... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 14, 2006 3:27 PM

No Hablo Espanol

Earlier this month Utah launched, with little fanfare, www.espanol.utah.gov, a Spanish-language companion to the state's Web site at www.utah.gov. The site contained 10 pages of information about taxes, health care, and so on in Spanish. A few days ago... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 14, 2006 9:55 AM

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

Mike Leavitt, Technology Champion

Mike Leavitt(click to enlarge) Mike Leavitt, my old boss, has been named NASCIO's National Technology Champion. The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) named Michael Leavitt, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as the... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 2, 2006 9:48 AM

Late Breaking News Session

My presentation on LDDI was in the "Late Breaking News" session since we basically missed all the deadlines. There were some other interesting presentations in that session as well. Daniel Harris and Niel Harris (no relation) presented Kendra, a... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 26, 2006 8:46 AM

China, the Internet's Broken Link

Danny Weitzner, W3C, at WWW2006(click to enlarge) Danny Weitzner from the W3C started out today's plenary session with a discussion of the Internet and Society called "China: A Broken Link on the Web. Is it the case that if everyone's... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 26, 2006 2:52 AM

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

Mashups, Web Data, and APIs

Frank Mantek, Jeff Barr, Dan Theurer, and Kevin Lawver(click to enlarge) I decided to take in Rohit Khare's panel on Next Wave (Business) this morning. This was part of the developer track that has normally been Rohit was kind enough... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 24, 2006 6:19 AM

Clueless in SimLand

I was listening to Edward Castronova's PopTech! presentation (Gold From Thin Air: The Economy of Virtual Worlds) today and had a scary thought. I've never been into video games, but as I listen to presentation's like Ed's, I always... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 8, 2006 1:42 PM

SOA Governance Panel Reprise

We'll be doing a reprise of the SOA governance panel at the SOA Executive Forum on May 16th in New York. The panelists will be: Ed Vazquez of Sprint-Nextel. Ed's the Group Manager of the Web Service Integrations &... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 5, 2006 2:12 PM

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

April CTO Breakfast Report

Today we did something different at the CTO breakfast and brought a projector for 5 minute lightening demos. Nathan Conger from Novell went first and showed the new SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop. We saw Beta 10. This is available... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 28, 2006 9:47 AM

LDDI Replaces UDDI

Dave Linthicum says: With lack of interest in UDDI there seems to be a need for another directory standard to come up and take its place. From Will there Ever Be a Common Directory Standard? | By Dave LinthicumReferenced... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 24, 2006 4:48 PM

LDDI: Microformats for SOA Registries

My student, Tom Warne, has been working on a project we call LDDI for the last 9 months or so. LDDI is short for Lightweight Description, Discovery, and Integration. LDDI is briefly described in the short paper LDDI: Microformats... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 18, 2006 7:41 PM

Navigating with Tags

Jon Udell has pointed to a new set of services that InfoWorld is using to help people navigate the information on their Web site. They're beta right now, but Jon expects they'll go live on the main InfoWorld site... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 18, 2006 7:30 PM

Navigating User Centric ID Systems

If you've been following along, you'll remember that I set up a OpenID enabled MediaWiki for the Internet Identity Workshop. Yesterday, Johannes Ernst told me that you can use MyLID to sign in as well. Cool. This works because... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 14, 2006 4:43 PM

MicroID - A Microformat for Claiming Ownership

This morning I learned about MicroIDs from Doc Searls. Jeremy Miller has proposed MicroIDs as a microformat that "allows anyone to simply claim verifiable ownership over their own pages and content hosted anywhere." A MicroID is a hash of... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2006 2:06 PM

Meanwhile, the Real Attention Economy Chugs Along

This morning, I was thinking about people who read this blog and what I offer them that keeps them coming back. That led me into what I like to think of as the "real" attention economy--the one that's already... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 24, 2006 6:27 PM

LDS Church Has RSS

The LDS Church (BYU's sponsoring organization) has added RSS feeds to their Web site.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 20, 2006 4:42 PM

Document Engineering

At the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum last week I met Bob Glushko who's on the faculty at Berkeley's School of Information, what they're calling the "i-school" (with no royalties to Apple, apparently). Bob's the director of the Center for... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 20, 2006 3:06 PM

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

SOA Governance Panel

I'll be moderating a panel on SOA governance at InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum March 16 in San Francisco. This will be a follow-on to the feature I did on SOA governance that ran in January. The panelists will be:... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 3, 2006 3:15 PM

SOA in the Public Sector

I'm quoted in an article in Public CIO magazine. I was interviewed for this story on the use of SOA and Web services in the government so long ago, I can hardly remember it. The article, especially the last... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 13, 2006 10:05 AM

Using Google's Universal Authentication Engine

Google's Chat service, GTalk, is based on XMPP, the protocol behind Jabber. That's why you can use any Jabber client with GTalk. This has other implications beyond chat clients, however. XMPP has a very capable authentication mechanism built-in to... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 7, 2006 11:49 AM

SaaS Lessons Learned

I'm at the Enterprise Software Summit in Sundance this afternoon (I'm speaking tomorrow). Greg Gianforte, from Right Now, is speaking about things they've learned about supporting software as a service (SaaS). Deployment choice - on premise and hosted. Large... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 6, 2006 4:07 PM

Synapse Milestone 1

The Apache Synapse project released Milestone 1 yesterday. From the homepage: "Synapse is a mediation framework for Web Services. Synapse allows messages flowing through, into, or out of an organization to be mediated." Milestone 1 supports: Simple mediation based... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 24, 2006 6:55 AM

SOA Governance Feature

The SOA Governance feature I did for InfoWorld is up today. There are four parts: Governing SOA - Rules, standards, and policies are the difference between playing with SOAP and real SOA. A degree of tolerance for SOA --... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 23, 2006 1:40 PM

Understanding UDDI

UDDI interactions with various SOA players(click to enlarge) As part of the SOA governance feature and Infravio X-Registry review that are going to be in InfoWorld in a few weeks, I'm trying to come up with a short (less than... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 11, 2006 1:18 PM

SOA at Work

Ever wonder if anyone actually uses SOA of if maybe this is all a bunch of vendors looking for a problem to solve? Joe McKendrick has a list of ten companies using SOA right now to solve real problems.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 3, 2006 9:04 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

Toward More Tolerant SOA

In writing the SOA governance piece for InfoWorld, I've been thinking a lot about how organizations can misuse governance. I've been spending some time reading what Jeff Schneider and Dion Hitchcliffe have to say on the subject of tolerance.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 27, 2005 12:59 PM

What Does This Data Tell You?

I ran across this article about the State of Mississippi's Web site. What caught my eye was the information that the site had jumped from 49th place in Brown University's study to 9th place. Now, I'm sure they all... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 27, 2005 11:22 AM

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

Document Style and State Transfer

Mark Baker has a nice, short write-up of how document style Web services differ from RPC-style and how that's related to state transfer (the last part of Representational State Transfer, or REST). An interesting point that Mark makes is... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 16, 2005 1:37 PM

XRI, XDI, and Identity

I flew down to Oakland today to attend Andy Dale's XDI Workshop (slides and video available, eventually, on the wiki). XRI's one of those things I've wanted to understand better and I decided that going to a workshop with... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2005 4:56 PM

Middleware Course

I'm teaching a graduate course next semester that's called "middleware" although that's really just a title that I chose to represent what it's not. The course will be about digital identity, Web services, service oriented architectures, and so on.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 1, 2005 2:50 PM

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