Author Archives: Dan Pitt

This Macworld was probably my last

By Dan Pitt | Published: February 16, 2010
One pleasure of living in the Bay Area is that I get to go to Macworld every year for only the cost of a Caltrain (commuter rail) ticket, around eight bucks. I’ve been going every year, just to the Expo (trade show), with my son, who is now 18. (We always manage either to get [...]
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A new office phone: a big step in the right direction

By Dan Pitt | Published: December 8, 2009
I got to see a demo of the new enterprise desktop phone from Cloud Telecomputers, called the Glass Platform, and it’s a huge step forward from the tired, pedestrian sorrows I saw at VoiceCon. First of all, it’s almost entirely touchscreen (about 8 inches), with two or perhaps three real (but tiny) buttons at the [...]
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I used to like telephony

By Dan Pitt | Published: November 30, 2009
The old days I started disassembling phones as a boy, which was a bit risky since only AT&T owned the instrument and you could not go to the store and buy a replacement if you broke it. There was no such thing as spare phones for experimenters. I worked on speech compression in graduate school, and [...]
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My ears are slow

By Dan Pitt | Published: November 27, 2009
The Wall Street Journal recently did a piece on the end of the email era. The Journal maintains that email is too limiting and ineffective compared to the new media, especially the social media. I’ll get into that more in another post (especially regarding Twitter, IM, and text messaging for short, immediate communications) but right now [...]
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Downtown Palo Alto Restaurants site has moved

By Dan Pitt | Published: November 25, 2009
Dear loyal follower, My opinionated compendium of downtown Palo Alto restaurants now has its own site (www.downtownpaloaltorestaurants.com) and is no longer on www.danpitt.com. As you can see, I am using www.danpitt.com for my blog on matters technical and otherwise. Yes, there is a link to the new restaurant website (on the right) but it’s better that [...]
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Impressions from WebPlay conference on social media

By Dan Pitt | Published: November 23, 2009
The WebPlay conference was held 19 November 2009 at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale (www.plugandplaytechcenter.com). The speakers and panelists mainly offered advice to startup companies seeking to exploit social media for their business, if not actually monetize it.  Twitter was the hottest topic, in all its variations (and with the CTO of [...]
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  • Welcome to my website. I'm Dan Pitt, a resident of Silicon Valley and enthusiastic champion of new technologies that meet important needs of people and society, focusing on startup companies in the Valley and Australia.

    Perhaps we met at the Plug and Play Tech Center (where my desk is), at Santa Clara University (where I served as Dean of Engineering), or at Nortel, Bay Networks, HP, or IBM. In California, North Carolina, or Switzerland. Or prowling Downtown Palo Alto restaurants, but that's another website.