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 monthly series of screencasts about software, and
a weekly series of audio interviews with innovators.
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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
has been a software developer at Lotus, was BYTE Magazine's executive
editor and Web maven, and has worked as 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 monthly series of screencasts about software, and
a weekly series of audio interviews with innovators.
In January 2007 he joined Microsoft as a technical evangelist. In his
new role he'll continue to explore and explain a broad portfolio of
technologies, both inside and outside Microsoft. He aims to
build bridges not only within the technical community but also, and
crucially, across the chasm that divides elite technologists from
everybody else.
