Jon Udell: InfoWorldJon's InfoWorld articlesMaking old technologies new- September 28, 2004 "I'm worried about the up-and-coming generation of geeks," a leading Internet innovator told me at a recent tech gathering. "They try stuff, use it, and throw it away. But I don't see many of them inventing new foundation technologies." In other words: rip, mix, burn. Is this a bad thing Perhaps quite the opposite. There's no shortage of foundation technologies, and latent within many of them are unanticipated uses. Discovering new ways to use existing technologies is arguably as important as.http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/09/28.html#a1084 From access control to accountability- September 21, 2004 In the physical world we rely on eyewitnesses and increasingly, especially in Britain, on cameras. In the virtual world, according to Dan Geer, we're now approaching a critical fork in the road: "To the left, we surveil people. To the right, we surveil data. I'm arguing for data-level file-tracking because if I have to surveil either people or data, I think it's highly important that we choose to surveil the data, not the people. Full story at InfoWorld.com In this column I mention an audio...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/09/21.html#a1080 Doing the impossible- September 14, 2004 It's funny how circumstances can change your perception of what's possible. A few months ago, key Microsoft architects were telling me that it would be impossible to decouple the Avalon presentation subsystem from the Longhorn OS. Now they're huddling in conference rooms trying to figure out how to do just that. It makes me wonder what else might turn out to be possible after all. ... Here's an interesting footnote to the WinFS news: According to John Montgomery, director of product management.http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/09/14.html#a1075 The TiVo Olympics- September 7, 2004 Every fourth summer, IT trade pubs write about the technology that powers the Olympic Games. It's always an interesting topic, but apart from an enhanced focus on security, the Athens 2004 stories were little changed from their Sydney 2000 counterparts. And yet, this Olympics was utterly transformed, for me and for a few million other viewers, by TiVo. Thanks to this cheap, Linux-based appliance, I was able to compress all of the events that interested me into a fraction of the time it would..http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/09/06.html#a1069 Information routing, redux- September 1, 2004 In last week's column, I mentioned del.icio.us, Joshua Schachter's "social bookmarking" service. Since then, I've explored the service more deeply in a series of blog entries. Using del.icio.us, I'm now able to process information in dramatically more efficient ways. ... In a March 2003 column, I wrote about the challenges of doing publishsubscribe at Internet scale. David Rosenblum, who was then CTO of messaging startup PreCache, had described to me an optimization procedure he called "filter.http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/09/01.html#a1066 |