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Microsoft's new evangelist--Jon Udell

Microsoft's new evangelist--Jon UdellWelcome to the Borg Cube, JonAs they say, resistance is futile. :)Probably a wise career-move.Good for him! probably$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, "greed works", as Michael Douglas said in a movie. It's probably true.

Tags: Jon Udell, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

Microsoft's new evangelist--Jon Udell

Microsoft has found its new Scoble, although there is only one Scoble. Jon Udell, who spent many years anchoring Infoworld and an early member of the Gillmor Gang, is going to be an evangelist for Microsoft, but not at the expense of his well- earned credibility. Jon interviews himself here...

Tags: Jon Udell, General, Microsoft

Blog posts 2006-12-08

If the URL exists, you must acquit: Part II

In the first installment of If the URL exists, you must acquit, I made a case for why Jon Udell had done no wrong when he essentially pointed to a URL from an XML file. I argued that this is really no different than pointing to a URL from...

Tags: Schwarzenegger, Phil Angelides, Jon Udell

Blog posts 2006-09-13

Paying for the participation revolution

Jon Udell has a great post today with a video showing how to use and maintain a reel lawnmower. Jon's done other videos like this. As he mentions, video is a great way to show people how to do things. It's also pretty easy to do;...

Tags: video

Blog posts 2006-07-10

If the context isn't a Web page, can you legally hyperlink?

Although Jared Benedict has gone to some lengths not to characterize a letter he received as a nastygram, he and Jon Udell have apparently received the equivalent of take-down notice from the producers of This American Life (one of my favorite National Public Radio-broadcasted programs). The letter threatened legal...

Tags: RSS feed, RSS, MP3, podcast, Jared Benedict

Blog posts 2006-06-21

On-line banking. It gets worse (and why SOX sux)

Inspired by a blog that was written fellow ZDNet blogger George Ou, last week, I talked about how Americans are technology, political, and educational laggards and how it will doom them. Ou's blog talked about how technological laggardliness was causing banks to fail their report cards when it came...

Tags: bank, George Ou, Jon Udell

Blog posts 2006-05-05

Vote with your feed

Jon Udell and I were talking the other day about the Blog Drain. Jon has been starting to unsubscribe from feeds. Unceremoniously. Brutally. Just say no. Drag to trash. It's the Blogalypse.Over on Scripting News, Dave Winer is pointing to Om Malik pointing to a bunch of commentary about Technorati....

Tags: aggregator, Bloglines, Syndisphere

Blog posts 2005-04-10

Fighting the antibodies

Jon Udell has an interesting post about groups resisting change much the same way that antibodies take on an infection. He addresses some of the rather acerbic comments to my post about his Monad/MSH columns.In the case of Monad/MSH, I am applauding two powerful ideas. First, the notion of a...

Tags: Linux, Monad

Blog posts 2005-01-12

Additional Resources

Meshing the desktop into the cloud

I'm often harsh on Microsoft, but I'm going to lighten up now that it's introduced Live Mesh (great coverage at Liveside, a useful ten points from Mary Jo, more at Techmeme). One of the misconceptions people often have about the Web is that exists 'out there', as...

Tags: Web, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Mesh, Zintel, Mesh Account Service, Channel Management, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Linking online personas

People complain about online privacy all the time, but we also suffer from the opposite problem: when you want to link online personas it's impossible to do in a systematic way. Why would you want to link online information? Simple: linking data about ourselves together is how we...

Tags: Blog, Identity, Blogging, Internet, Phil Windley

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Listening for learning

We all get bombarded with new things all the time. Thats the world we live in. Most of us, me included, say "thats cool" and move on. One of the reasons I appreciate Jon Udell is his ability to go beyond the "thats cool" aspect and...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Semantic Web reading material

I noticed a few interesting posts on semantic Web themes. Jon Udell discusses his test driving of Metawebs Freebase. Stephen Downes give his reasons why the semantic Web will fail good discussion following. Paul Miller interviews Nova Spivack of stealth startup Radar Networks on semantic Web topics. On Read/WriteWeb Phill...

Tags: Semantic Web

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Tagging Hits the Mainstream

Microsoft Vista contains a photo management application called Photo Gallery. Its interesting to note that digital photography has become so important that you cant have an operating system anymore that doesnt ship with that kind of application. Apple raised the ante with iPhoto and Vista...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-02-21

Who will be Microsoft's next top evangelist?

Microsoft is snapping up some off-the-beaten-path hires, as of late.The latest to join The Empire: Former Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg. In his new role at Microsoft, Gartenberg will be "an enthusiast evangelist." This new group of individuals is charged with doing "outreach to users" and creating new content for...

Tags: Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-02-15

Out of context patterns

Out of context patternsDabbleDB instead of SQL?On Janurary 19, Jon Udell interviewed the folks at DabbleDB and discussed the problem of SQL's limited horizon that you mentioned and how an emergent style of database interaction might help, at: http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/01/19/a-conversation-with-avi-bryant-and-andrew-catton-about-dabble-db/Why the point about SQL?What's you're reasoning behind it? Sure, SQL...

Tags: Programming languages, Databases, SQL, domain expert

Discussion threads 2007-01-30

Microsoft ties a bow around and ships Python language support for .NET (IronPython)

Microsoft ties a bow around and ships Python language support for .NET IronPythonScore one for Dynamic Scripting LanguagesWell, hats off to MS for IronPython.Of course, it's nothing new though.Dynamic scripting is 'a given' for internet web programmers who use Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python.In the long run, one has to wonder...

Tags: Scripting languages, Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Development tools, .NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET, IronPython, Python, Microsoft Visual Studio

Discussion threads 2006-09-07

Amazon.com: IT utility to the enterprise?

Computing delivered across the wire at the flick of the switch, just as predictably and effortlessly as we already receive electricity, telecoms and water. Ever since computer science academic Martin Greenberger first posited the notion of an 'Information Utility' in a May 1964 article for Atlantic Monthly,...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-04

As I was saying

When I met with Dan Farber last week to discuss closing InfoRouter down, we agreed I'd use a last post to both wind up the blog and detail my future plans. Although I'd intended to write this and release it tomorrow Monday it seems appropriate to work on it tonight...

Tags: InfoWorld, blog

Blog posts 2006-07-30

Riding the hockey stick: Scaling Web 2.0 software

With all the talk last week about MySpace becoming the #1 most visited site on the Web, there's also been a lot of talk about how Web 2.0 sites like MySpace handle their sharp growth rates. Because Web 2.0 sites explicitly leverage network effects, when they hit their...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-07-16

Google eats its own dogfood with GData

Google's GData was released a few months ago and at the time I asked: Why is Google extending RSS? O'Reilly's Nat Torkington went to lunch with Google's Chris DiBona and Mark Lukovsky and got to the bottom of that question. Over spicy noodles or whatever was on the menu they...

Tags: GData

Blog posts 2006-07-16