I heard about ESP8266’s from a friend at Google last year; I’d seen noise about them but hadn’t paid any attention. Then what he said caught my attention – using standard batteries we can make them...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking at ThingsExpo. I was asked by the great folks at The Linux Foundation and their AllJoyn Framework. Here’s a link to my talk, Building IoT Devices with AllJo...

Today I recieved the following email. This is from one of the best friends I’ve ever had, Mark Hereld. You should checkou this art, he’s awesome – then you should tell him to come visit me (Hi Mark...

The following advertisement just came through my inbox via a mailing list at work. This is one of those treasured moments when I realize how awesome it is to work at Microsoft. Want to build the w...

Over the course of time I’ve worked for and with a great many enterprises. Some public, some private, some “key players”, some “boutique” – almost every one of those collaborations was driven by a ...

I lend on Kiva. I lend to women (individually and in collectives). I lend in the poorest regions of the world. I used to believe, but I know: if we empower women we change the world I first star...

I just returned from giving a talk at the Linux Foundations Embedded Linux Conference in San Jose. It was an excellent event with very good information working in the embedded space, and it didn’t ...

This week at Mobile World Congress 2015 (in Barcelona), the AllSeen Alliance invited me to give a talk on Open Sourcing the User Experience for the Internet of Things. In order to drive the message...

Today, Felix Rieseberg, Ville Rantala, and I present this talk and demos in the AllSeen Alliance track at Mobile World Congress. Our talk, like much of our work, is focusing on advocating for the d...

This week I gave a talk about IoT, AllJoyn, and the complexity of building products at the Linux Foundations annual Collaboration Summit. I was a bit concerned, I haven’t spoken to this particular ...