Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator. His 1999 book, Practical Internet Groupware, helped lay the foundation for what we now call social software. Udell was formerly a software developer at Lotus, BYTE Magazine's executive editor and Web maven, and an independent consultant.A hands-on thinker, Udell's analysis of industry trends has always been informed by his own ongoing experiments with software, information architecture, and new media.From 2002 to 2006 he was InfoWorld's lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief. During his InfoWorld tenure he also produced a series of screencasts and an audio show that continues as Interviews with Innovators on the Conversations Network.In January 2007, Udell joined Microsoft as a writer, speaker, and producer of another series of interviews: Perspectives. This show features projects in which Microsoft works with partners -- universities, governments, NGOs -- to develop new and socially impactful uses of its technology portfolio.
Jon Udell's Blog
For over two weeks now, I’ve been running a service in the Azure cloud that
aggregates calendar events from Eventful.com and from a diverse set of
iCalendar feeds. My aim is to recreate and then extend my experimental
elmcity.info community information hub, while exploring and documenting the
evolution of Azure and the layered services emerging on top of it.
I haven’t written a whole lot about programming for a while, because I’ve
trying to to explain the whys and wherefores of syndication-oriented
communication to a wider audience. But as I build out this service I’m
learning a lot about cloud-based software development in general, and about
Azure in particular, and I want to narrate this work. I’ll try to do it in
a way that will inform developers who currently use Microsoft tools and
technologies, as well as those who don’t. But I’ll also try to ... (more)
Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator. His 1999 book, 
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