Tao Student – A Personal Site for Gary Ardito

Hello All…
I find myself back in Salt Lake City at Novell’s annual user conference Brainshare.   I have been here since Saturday in various business meetings but the actual event kicked off today.  I  thought it was a great start.  Ron’s opening remarks clarifying our strategic direction using a set of conversations with a friend metaphor [...]

I am heading off to California tomorrow to attend the latest IIW. I am very excited as I have been following the Internet Identity efforts from a far for quite a while.. acting as a voyeur on the mailing lists and getting updates from Dale Olds (colleague at Novell) as often as [...]

I have commented here about each of these separately but the more I think about the direction different technologies are taking the more I love the combination of these.
Social networking sites are evolving, looking to embed themselves in the fabric or our daily lives (probably changing the fabric along the way).  This includes expanding to [...]

One of the senior architects in my practice passed this article on to me and I find it interesting for a couple of reasons although probably not what the author intended.
First of all, I take umbrage with the use of the Gphone . This is such a media hype tip off. There is [...]

Google recently announced OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for building social applications.  This is a great idea and I hope it gains momentum.  This will allow developers to learn one API for  building social applications for multiple websites.
I blogged a few weeks ago at my frustration to having my contacts and,  on the social [...]

The idea of an all encompassing Private Identity Network that we can plug into whether on the net, using our cell phones (or pick any device), or interacting with a merchant is a nice vision. Add a benevolent overseeing agency insuring all is well with our important identity data and the vision nears utopia. [...]

We have all seen the result of different mashups like property with craigs list, the taxi mashup for Chicago/NY, even our own attempt at a mashup showing where all the architects, strategists and PMs live (thanks Niel).  They are all interesting, amusing and sometimes useful.
I think the link below is a great example of where [...]

I knew it was happening..I read all the press releases like the Google books initiative to digitize the worlds books and make them available to everyone over the internet but I never put all the pieces together until this past week and when I did, I was just electric with excitement. I started mumbling [...]

I know that I must seem awfully narrowly focused these days with all my commentary on Apple but they are the ones making the most noise. This blog by Ed Bott of ZDNet really raises a curious angle on what Apple may do to sell more hardware and why they recently announced Safari for [...]

Folks,
This news report is interesting. Looks like Apple’s exploration of different marketing and client adoption methods is still in full force. I think that this move is very significant to our business. Very simply, any move by a mainstream company that promotes the community building and collaborative nature of the web [...]

Anybody who has been remotely involved in the open source community over the past year knows about the uproar related to the Novell – Microsoft deal put together last November. Novell has been called out and called many things because of this deal. I have maintained from the beginning that this deal was [...]

This is real interesting.. Attending conferences usually seems so uni-directional, not really social or interactive. This software, expectnation, is meant to change all of that by better managing and opening up the workflow. The tag line is turning a conference into a community… I wonder how this would work for Novell’s Brainshare.. [...]

I came across this today at OSBC and it looks real interesting.. As a backdrop, I am something of a collector of languages and development schemes. This one seems to have real legs, built on top of Pyhon..
http://www.djangoproject.com/
I will dive in and post more later
-Gary

Three more sessions plus a keynote today…
The next session was on Open Source and the Channel. This was a session I was really looking forward to. Lets say it really hit home. The panel in this case included Anthony Gold from Unisys and Anthony Roby from Accenture. The crux of this was that [...]

As promised, here at OSBC..
First impression, this conference has grown dramatically in audience and tenor since the first one a few years ago when the main questions were “What really is open source?” and “What is the GPL?” Overall, today’s audience is composed of people with far more experience with Open Source (both [...]

I am heading to San Fran today to attend OSBC 2007. I am looking forward to it. I am always looking to refine the CxO message around Linux and Open Source and this show often provides the conversation to do just that.
I will blog during the conference

As someone who has worked on literally hundreds of enterprise (corporate) Identity Management solutions…some mundane and some very complex, I can see the synergy.. I can visualize how users can mix into their world. I see companies looking to include their customers and partners in their business. The overall wave towards information [...]

Just in case you missed it.. I listened to a real interesting Podcast this morning off of IT Conversations.
It is an interview with Caterina Fake who was one of the founders of Flickr. She talks about how Flickr came to be.. almost an accidental by product of what sounds like a Second Life type [...]