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About Phil Windley
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Phil Windley is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses on digital identity, interoperability, Web services, middleware, and programming languages. Phil is also a frequent author and speaker on these topics and writes a blog at www.windley.com. Prior to joining BYU, Phil spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah, serving on the Governor Mike Leavitt's Cabinet and as a member of his senior staff.
Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early leader in electronic commerce.
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Phil Windley
Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early leader in electronic commerce.
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Twitter now officially part of the live web
Dennis Howlett comments that Twitter gain business cred after the recent assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He notes that when Katrina struck, blogs sprung into action spreading the news, but...
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Which part of "share" didn't you understand?
It seems like everyone is just dying to add social features to their online tools these days. One example: Google recent move to expose your "shared" items from Google Reader to your Gmail...
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Going green with DC power
Which has a larger carbon footprint: your neighbor's gas guzzling SUV or the server in your machine room? The answer might surprise you. In a recent report from the Global Action Plan, the...
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Economics that are impossible to stop
A few days ago, Jeff Barr, Amazon's Web services (AWS) evangelist visited my class and got a report of what we'd built over the course of the last semester on top of AWS. Each student had built...
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Future proofing digital assets
The passing of fellow ZDNet blogger Marc Orchant caused Dave Winer to pose the question: what happens to your Web presence (and by extension all your digital assets) when you are no longer here?...
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OpenID 2.0 specification released
The OpenID 2.0 specification was finalized at IIW this week. OpenID 2.0 comprises two separate specifications: OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0. Getting 2.0 out the...
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Reputation taking center stage
We hold the Internet Identity Workshop twice a year. One way to track the vector of developments in user-centric identity it to plot the gestalt of the workshop each year. Here's my...
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A looming election nightmare?
After the recount debacle of 2000, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). As a result, most states went out and replaced their punch card ballots with electronic voting machines....
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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...
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Social networking needs identity delegation strategies
Ever since Facebook opened its platform to outside developers, thousands of applications have been built on top of Facebook. Some have tens of thousands of users and have become part of the...
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How much will you reveal?
I was talking to a friend yesterday about what we'd be willing to reveal to Google or Yahoo! to get better search results? Zip code? Sure, they can already guess and I'd just as soon they were...
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Barbie Key Signings
If the upcoming Christmas season goes according to Mattel's plan, your pre-teen daughter might be spending their post-holiday week at her friend's houses doing what amounts to good, old-fashioned...
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Michael Barrett on Web 2.0: This stuff scares the hell out of me
When Michael Barrett (CISO, Paypal) heard the Eric Nolin was putting on Defrag, he called up and said "I'd like to come and talk because this stuff scares the hell out of me." His key messages:...
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Guilt by association: it's called reputation
I've had domain specific languages on my mind recently, so when a Wired News article on Hancock, a DSL for data mining "communities of interest" crossed through my feedreader, I spent some time...
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Google's heavy hand
Alex Bosworth has an excellent post on the heavy hand of Google on the Web. The gist of the piece: search engine optimization (SEO) is evil--but don't blame the optimizers, blame the ecosystem...
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What's wrong with Facebook
Doc Searls is complaining that Facebook takes too much time. He's right. The problem is that Facebook is annoying because that's what works. Facebook's success depends on bothering you...
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Freeing books and other digital things
Google and Microsoft both have programs to scan books and place them online. But according to the NY Times several research libraries have turned down offers from these companies in favor of the...
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Conference Payola
I'm one of the organizers of the Internet Identity Workshop and part of my job is asking for sponsorships to help support the workshop. One of the things that's a little surprising to me is how...
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Twitter: show me the money!
James Governor at RedMonk says "Twitter is like walking to school with your friends and hanging out, while reading blogs is reading their homework." That makes the Twitter a prime spot for making...
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Cloud Computing for Students
This morning, the New York Times carried a story on an effort to build "large data centers that students can tap into over the Internet to program and research remotely, which is called 'cloud...
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