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It’s that time again … and I got here on time. This morning was
again Phil Windley’s CTO Roundtable. There is a good group of
people here, and as usual the conversation went from topic to topic.

• Cogito – we talked about a local company here (since some ex-Cogito people are present)
  and what is going on. There has been a huge management shift at
  Cogito, and a lot of people left. This lead to a discussion about
  the confusion of the thinking behind the investors choices.
• Google
  – we spent some time talking about Google, and where they are
  lately.  I think Phil brought up that they recently added RSS
  Feeds to their Google Personal Hompages.
• WiFi – We then took a turn into the discussion of whether
  long-term WiFi will be free or not.  Or, maybe we’ll see that both
  will exist?  I think that overall, it was agreed that both are
  going to be around … there will be some folks who want to offer free,
  and others where you get what you pay for.

I had to step out and take a phone call with some researchers at
CMU. At Agilix we are now working with a large number of
researchers in eLearning and Tablet PCs in education. CMU is
doing some amazing work in eTextBooks, etc.

• Anti-Spam and e-mail addresses – we talked about the various
  services that people are using to create unique e-mail addresses for
  everyone that they give their e-mail address to. Some folks are
  using PostFix, I use Qmail, someone brought up PookMail.
• We ventured into storage issues … terabyte hard disks, SanDisk’s new products, and how to backup all of this data.
• Wireless
  in the home – there was talk about whether fiber in the home, or CAT-5e
  in the home, is still going to be big … or can we go all wireless
  within the home?  I really think that all of the interference
  issues will be solved … wireless rocks.
• Jumping
  on Open WiFi – I brought up the 2600 article, that I read, about all of
  the data and identity information that was gathered from someone on an
  open AP.  It’s amazing in this day and age how little people
  understand about security and encryption.  This led to the next
  topic …
• Using clear protocols – we talked about
  how little SSL is being used, and how many people and company still use
  “open” SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 for e-mail!  Crazy!
• Phil brought up Make magazine – mini Linux server … very cool stuff!

That was about it … I did bring up that I am looking for some
PHP5/MySQL talent, and also that Agilix Labs is looking for some C# .NET
developers who want to make some side money creating plug-ins for our
new GoBinder SDK.

Overall … a great meeting as usual!