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Happy 42 Day

It’s 101010 today. In binary, that’s 42. It’s also the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. And, as it happens, our son’s 14th birthday. You can imagine how very cool that is.

6 topics for 10/10/10

We had a great day apple picking at Patterson’s farm in Chesterland, OH yesterday The very notion of Microsoft buying Adobe is laughable and exactly what industry press and investor bankers want.  As long as they have something to write about, a...

The Business Movie

Went to see The Social Network last night, and thought it was terrific. Even though most of the scenes set at Harvard and Silicon Valley were shot elsewhere, the versimilitude was high. And,while it was strange to see the recent past treated as history, the story actually works, and carries truth, even if it doesn’t...

Putting Your Own DNS Servers in ClearOS

I've been using a CentralPointe server as a gateway server in my home for years. DirectPointe (I'm on the board) used to offer these, but no longer does, so it had gotten out of date and wasn't being supported anymore. Fortunately, the same system ...

Blogging at the beginning of Oct. ‘10

Imagine that!  Facebook now lets us get our own data.  What a concept! Here comes GoogleTV - and they’ve got devices and apps for it What!  Mahalo getting sued!  Tell me it isn’t true! You mean Jason Calacanis is…….. shocki...

UMA is Cool

People know I’m an XDI nut and Eve Maler is an UMA nut. And some people wonder if there isn’t a whole lot of overlap between UMA and XDI (and why Eve and I are not fighting a protocol jihad). Well, the truth is, Eve and I are good friends (especially since I learned she lives...

Revision: “Personal Data Service” AND “Personal Data Store” Go Together

On the Project VRM telecon today, we had an excellent discussion regarding “PDS” terms and my blog post last Sunday (Out with “Personal Data Store”, In with “Personal Data Service”). Iain Henderson of Mydex made the point that the key advantage of the term “personal data store” is that it describes a place where an...

Understanding Webhooks, Kynetx and Twilio

My first Prezi posted on YouTube.

Remembering Andreas Pfitzmann

We have lost a pioneer who led the way in showing that privacy research is a key to computer science

CTO Breakfast Meetup this Thursday

In honor of the Utah Open Source Conference happening this week, we'll be holding a special CTO Breakfast meetup on Thursday morning at 8am. The conference is at the Larry H. Miller campus of SLCC. We'll be in room MFEC 123. Kynetx will supply b...

“How to build a Digital City” white paper

Doug Rushkoff told me he was gonna blog about me and my project on BoingBoing - so I updated our site - and created a white paper to explain what we’re doing. I hope you enjoy it. UPDATE NOTE: This is now the 10-16-10 updated version of the Digi...

“How to build a Digital City” white paper

This is an overview of our Digital City project.  A white paper which you can download and read anytime.