Saturday, August 20, 2005

IN THE FUTURE YOUR LUGGAGE WILL BE SEARCHABLE| In the near future, search will metastasize from its origins on the PC-centric Web and be let loose on all manner of devices. This has already begun with mobile phones and PDAs; expect it to continue, viruslike, until search is built into every digital device touching our lives. The telephone, the automobile, the television, the stereo, the lowliest object with a chip and the ability to connect—all will incorporate network-aware search.

This is no fantasy; this is simple logic. As more and more of our lives become connected, digitized, and computed, we will need navigation and context interfaces to cope. What is TiVo, after all, but a search interface for television? ITunes? Search for music. That box of photographs under your bed and the pile of CDs teetering next to your stereo? Analog artifacts, awaiting their digital rebirth. How might you find that photo of you and your lover on the beach in Greece from fifteen years ago? Either you scan it in, or you lose it to the moldering embrace of analog obscurity. But your children will have no such problems; their photographs are already entirely digital and searchable—complete with metadata tagged right in (date, time, and soon, context). |Smart Mobs|
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WEB 2.0: DATA, METADATA AND INTERFACE| One key takeaway from the Web 2.0 panel was that data, interface and metadata no longer need to go hand in hand. When working on an application/website, one thinks of the overall picture including the data, the metadata, and the interface. With Web 2.0 apps, the data might be from one place, the metadata from another, and the interface from a third party or a remix. The diagram below shows the move towards Web 2.0 along with examples. |Infodesign|
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Friday, August 05, 2005

HOUSING MAPS| Real estate listings powered by Craigs List and Google Maps.
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GOOGLE AND THE INFORMATION INDUSTRY| In this special colloquia, Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google in Redwood City, California discusses the information industry and Google's approach to innovation. Dr. Schmidt has a 25-year record of achievement as an Internet strategist, entrepreneur and developer of great technologies. Since taking the helm at Google, he has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Previously, Dr. Schmidt was chief executive and chairman of software maker Novell, and before that was chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems. |UWTV|
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