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Monday, February 25, 2008
The Wii, Innovation, HCI and a great mashup
In this age of Web2.0, Mashups etc..... I have been wondering what would be possible in the HCI space! Not so much in the UI/UX side of things - as they bring up commerisation and the friction caused by the "normality" barrier - but more in the space of what tactile experience means and the industrial design aspects of what makes IPhone a hit, for example. I reckon this series of articles/posts/videos from Johnny Chung Lee - a Ph.D Graduate Student from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University - has really nailed down some interesting scenarios with just the Wiii remote. Just look at this demos, they are brilliant in their simplicity, elegance and application; and a great example of what is will now be in the pipeline in the near future. btw, NB these demos only need the WII remote (aka the $20-30? device not the full monty) for these to work (will confirm later as I know a few HCI wonks trying these out since I passed on the link to them :) ) I just wonder at which conference will a speaker have a go at a "Minority Report" style presentation? It would be one hell of a presentation style! Does anyone know of someone that tried it? I reckon one man that will have a go, it would be Rob Burke, if he has not already, Rob? :D /Paul
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Irish Web Technology Conference 2008
Well sports fans don't forget about the Irish Web Technology Conference that is on this week! you can register at this link I have to give a huge hat tip to the folks involved as the line up and format is extremely impressive, and to think this is being held in Ireland is just a cherry on top. Only a few years ago we have no conferences at all and we here in IRL have come a long way. I plan to be there for the launch of the conference on Tuesday evening but alas cannot make the following days, but I would highly recommend the conference if you can make it. Ciao, /Paul
Irish Dev. Community | Web 2.0
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
New blog on the way?
Not that i don't want to stop blogging here, but I am finding myself fighting an urge to blog stuff here that I don't think fits this blog, namely about Web2.0 and lots of stuff that falls out of my head in this space. So if you guessed that the last post was a miss-fire, you are right, and it was aimed to be to the other blog (opps configured the Blogging tool the wrong way). This blog remains for sure and I have some juicy bits to share with you in the new year. Especially in the areas of Functional Programming, F#, the CCR and some other interesting bits and pieces. Splitting up my blog stream should make things more fluid for me, as I have a huge folder of drafts that I need to clean out and from there get into a fluid point where I can dip into software or Web2.0 topics :) More on this soon, /Paul
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
IBM predicting the end of Advertising as we know it!
Well with FB (sorry, Facebook) getting a roasting over the last few weeks about their Beacon Advertising platform and down right getting killed over there lack of engagement in the uproar it caused, I found it downright surprising to find an report from IBM that predicting the end of Advertising as we know it! (actual report at this link) So initially I was a little surprised to see IBM publish such a report, not due to the fact that the report is sort of late to the game (in the broader SN/UGC sense) but then I guess if you are as big as "Big Blue" and value chains are being deconstructed/re-constructed quite rapidly in a large revenue market, maybe they want to insert themselves into the action. As reports go, its not bad, it gives a good overview on what has driven the sectors that focus on consumer et.al. crazy for the last 3 yrs or so, and gives a good executive summary, especially if you have not been deeply tracking this space or dipped into some seminal books that bring all of the moving pieces into an overall trend. I'm just so curious as to what does this mean? Is IBM starting to brief its customer base on interactive software and how the role it/IBM plays in to today future view of the world, is it a play on BPM or tracking or something along those lines? Could this be a test balloon for a new tech stack it has in incubation right now? And where that tech stack play in the decentralised/dis-intermediated web. Wild speculation on my part, but I wonder is this a sign of things to come? And is the lure of Feemium model taking some real shape! (not that it takes IBM to make it take shape but you know what I mean  ) /P
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Irish Developer Community Launch for VS2008, SQL Server 2008, Windows 2008 - What would you like to see?
Just throwing this out there, as stuff is beginning to take shape for the Community launch of VS2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. So we have had community launches in the past and they have been hugely successful and I don't see any reason why we cannot do the same if not improve on these As a means of giving feedback on what you would like to see and the context you are coming from, please let some us in the different usergroups know. The complete list of UG's is on MTUG.ie, Please would all UG's and folks in Ireland spread the word!!! /Paul ps Being my usual ADD self, I have lots of things I should/will do on behalf of the Irish MTUG community in Ireland, namely seek more speakers from outside of IRL. My own involvement has been really poor for way too long, but this is no excuse for others that have committed to the organisation (outside of IRL) and it values. I can only promise not to be so much a back seat passenger on this stuff and maintain Ireland a place on the map for this stuff as much as I can, even if we don't need it :)
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Thursday, December 06, 2007
PDC 2008
Looks like we have a PDC next year, 27th to 30th of Oct. in LA. From the Email sent out today, " The PDC is the definitive Microsoft event for software developers and architects. PDC participants will have the opportunity to hear from executives about the latest platform advancements, and engage in in-depth discussions around upcoming technologies and the future direction of the Microsoft platform." hhhmmmm I wonder what the news will be? /Paul
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
The Paddy's Valley crew head to the Valley
Well the time has come for some of the best Irish Web 2.0 crews to strut their stuff in the Valley. Best of luck to all of the Paddy's Valley crew and good hunting :D Don't forget to have a look under the cushions in the couch, those Sand Hill road folks are rumoured to be have $ x00K in loose change there ;) And a big shout out to the finalists of the Enterprise Ireland Pitching event that is taking place on Tuesday. Best of luck to Tourist Republic, Putplace, Nubiq, Spoiltchild and Pix.ie. Should be a great week and I so wish I was a tech tourist for this :( . The folks in the valley have been very welcoming and the Paddy's Valley crew are going to have a very cool but very busy week, with onsite visits at Facebook, Ning, Meebo, Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, Socialtext, United Layer and MORE. You can see the (almost) "Final" itinerary here. /Paul
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The First Internet Marketing Conference - 1994
Just stumbled across this old classic. Amazing to think this was 13 years ago and also amazing to hear visionaries of the time articulate their vision of how the Internet would evolve. I just wonder who from today's industry/thought leaders will have their current insights/vision played out the same way over a 8-12 years timeframe :) Enjoy! /Paul ps for bonus credit, anyone care to share their thoughts on where they see the next 5-10 will led us, such as what will be the ubiquitous market dominate platform, will there even be a ubiquitous market dominate platform, how will mobile affect the market place, how will business models be disrupted, will a digital divide form? or has it already begun?, where can SN's evolve to - consolidated breadth based feature rich portals, vertical niches with portability, workspaces/desktops in the cloud and so on..... But most important of all.... Will Net neutrality remain?
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