As I mentioned in an earlier blogpost the internet is evolving towards a pervasive ubiquitous medium. Last decennium was a strong witness of the rise of social computing where people share, influence and create knowledge. Crowdsourcing such as Wikipedia, but also folksonomies, and social networks are the proof that the collaborative and participative computing platform generates and manages new ideas more effectively. And it does not stop with just knowledge, but extends to many other things such as music (mixmatchmusic.com) and even galaxy shapes (galaxyzoo.org).
And also in 2010 social computing continues to be in focus. But 2010 will go much beyond that. We will also see a much stronger increase in the rise of semantic web applications obtaining more information from combining and linking data from various sources and websites. Mashups of text information will converge towards mashups of different formats lees verder…
The Web has rapidly changed the way we work and interact with the internet. From an information-only Web 1.0, it moved to the enriched and dynamic internet as we know it today. We distinguish a number of key trends in the current web.
The most popular and successful part of the web is better known as web 2.0 or the Social Web. The most well-known example is crowdsourcing such as
Afgelopen week presenteerde ik als dagvoorzitter de laatste web trends op CMS congres in Nijmegen. Daar gebruikte ik ook als primeur in Nederland de nieuwe Prezi presentatie software. Prezi.com geeft het presenteren namelijk een hele andere dimensie en gaat veel meer vanuit een mindmap dan vanuit de slide-for slide gedachte. Het aantrekkelijke van deze presentatie software is niet dat het net als andere add-ons meer rijkere presentatie features geeft, maar het paradigma verandert dat je een gedachtenlijn kunt volgen en daar bij meer focus kunt geven door in en uit te zoomen als het beeld te roteren zonder het overzicht te verliezen.
Een ander feature van Prezi.com is dat het ook een desktop client heeft dat gebouwd is op DRIA technologie (Desktop Rich Internet Application). Deze technologie groeit net de kinderschoenen
Zonder een computernetwerk of PC ben ik toch verbonden aan het internet. Ik heb gisteren namelijk een internet radio via mijn stopcontact aan het internet verbonden. Ik moet zeggen om elke ochtend wakker worden met een geselecteerde Podcast of de laatste RSS newsfeeds en verkeersupdates wel een andere ervaring is. Maar het beluisteren van wereldradiozenders live uit Azië, Afrika en zelfs Antarctica verbreedt je spectrum toch aanzienlijk.
Waarom ik het hier noem is omdat het een trend is die zich wel meer gaat manifesteren, namelijk internet technologie in het gewone leven, zoals huis-tuin-keuken maar dus ook slaapkamer. Natuurlijk zagen we al dat de mobiele telefoon, gameconsoles ook een aardige intrede doen op dit gebied, maar vaak met een onhandiger scherm en minder optimaal. Maar in dit geval is het meer ontworpen vanuit de appliance, en gedacht van hoe kan men internet optimaal gebruiken.
Ben jij de bijna afgestudeerde student die graag op de hoogte blijft van de laatste technologische ontwikkelingen en innovatie? Accenture biedt speciaal voor 25 geselecteerde studenten een geheel verzorgde vliegreis naar onze Technology Labs in Sophia Antipolis bij Nice in Zuid-Frankrijk.
Daar laten we je kennismaken hoe wij de technologische trends in de komende 5-10 jaar zien ontwikkelen, maar belangrijker nog hoe bedrijven en bedrijfsleven hiervan kunnen profiteren. Je lees verder…
Last year a friend told me that while he was in China, he saw a huge white advertisement on the road with just a black 2D-Barcode. That was all. Obviously, he was very intrigued by it, but could not figure out what it was so he asked his taxi driver about it. The taxi driver took his cameraphone, snapped the barcode, and an advertisement of a large nearby company with a link to their website showed up on his screen. A good example of how technology innovation comes to the real consumer!
New technology trends allow and drive many new innovation tracks in companies. And the last years were for sure no exception. We have seen a strong popularity in social networking sites based on web 2.0 collaborative and participative technologies, not only on the public internet, but also now within enterprises. Mobility device integration also became hotter. The use of internet on mobile phones, PDA/smartphones, networking games on gaming consoles, but even appliances such as fridges and kitchens became more accepted. Mobile social networking websites saw many startups develop mobile phone software last year to interact on social networking sites through your mobile.
Less prominently, but increasing, we also see that there is a careful shift from text-based to non-text based internet. Internet is still strongly text-based. Yes, you can already google images nowadays, but you still have to type in the keywords you are looking for. Websites including google focus now on matching pictures with your uploaded picture rather than analyzing keywords and do a semantic search. There is a website allowing people to upload their own picture and the website chooses clothes and accessories which fits the person’s picture. Other websites experiment with voice (Midomi.com) where you can sing a lyric and it recognizes the song. There is a phone number you can call and let your phone listen to a song in a shop for instance, and it recognizes the song and artist (great for copyright protection). Amazon.com opened up a service where you can SMS lees verder…
Yesterday, I presented at the Heliview Conference on how the Next Enterprise should profit from Web 2.0. It centers around three large Business Technology trends:
1. The rising popularity of Collaborative and Participative Platforms within the Enterprise
2. Accessibility through the ability of connecting higher number of devices to systems and changing way of user-input
3. Integration Standardization for applications as well as data.
We have already witnessed the popularity of collaborative and participative platforms on the public internet: crowdsourcing (wikipedia), folksonomies (del.icio.us), social networking (Linkedin, Facebook), search and discovery (google, stumbleUpon) etc. However, enterprises are now also taking larger interest in these platforms to enable within their own boundaries. Enterprise software vendors as well as many startup niche companies are jumping on the bandwagon to fill in the gaps in this market segment.Secondly, we also see a larger set of devices being able to be integrated with company applications: mobile phones, PDAs, self service check in machines (e.g ATM), gaming consoles and even fridges. We see the user interface becoming also more interactive through technologies like RIA and lees verder…
The concept of this so-called Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) has already been out there for a while, but the rise of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) helped BAM to become more feasible. SOA’s integration of heterogeneous lees verder…
Last year Accenture reported that most product research (69%) and comparison shopping (68%) happens online. Actual purchases, however, happen offline (67%). 13% said the Internet played no role in their offline shopping. The study backs up number of other reports and underlines that even though eCommerce still has a way to go, internet does play a much stronger influencing role in selecting and buying a product than before.
Web 2.0 in particular does provide good means to help companies in this silent marketing quest and I would like to mention three areas in lees verder…
Our Accenture Technology Labs demonstrated last week to the press the Pocket Supercomputer which was received with large interest. It is a real working prototype with a mobile phone video streaming in a 2-way fashion to a phone number connected with a “supercomputer”. The supercomputer is then able to process that information and present relevant details on the items being recorded. So, it would be able to give you a warning if a certain food product contains nuts, or it would be able to recognize the painter of a painting and tell you his biographic details.
But what amazed me most, was that you were able to swipe the phone over a Swedish (the tech lab guy is from Sweden) comic story and then on the smartphone’s display, the comic story would show in English with the same pictures real-time. It was like looking through a lens. lees verder…
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but also folksonomies, and social networks are the proof that the collaborative and participative computing platform generates and manages new ideas more effectively. And it does not stop with just knowledge, but extends to many other things such as music (mixmatchmusic.com) and even galaxy shapes (galaxyzoo.org).
Afgelopen week presenteerde ik als dagvoorzitter de laatste web trends op 
Een ander feature van Prezi.com is dat het ook een desktop client heeft dat gebouwd is op DRIA technologie (Desktop Rich Internet Application). Deze technologie groeit net de kinderschoenen
Ben jij de bijna afgestudeerde student die graag op de hoogte blijft van de laatste technologische ontwikkelingen en innovatie? Accenture biedt speciaal voor 25 geselecteerde studenten een geheel verzorgde vliegreis naar onze 
New technology trends allow and drive many new innovation tracks in companies. And the last years were for sure no exception. We have seen a strong popularity in social networking sites based on web 2.0 collaborative and participative technologies, not only on the public internet, but also now within enterprises. Mobility device integration also became hotter. The use of internet on mobile phones, PDA/smartphones, networking games on gaming consoles, but even appliances such as fridges and kitchens became more accepted. Mobile social networking websites saw many startups develop mobile phone software last year to interact on social networking sites through your mobile.
our uploaded picture rather than analyzing keywords and do a semantic search. There is a website allowing people to upload their own picture and the website chooses clothes and accessories which fits the person’s picture. Other websites experiment with voice (Midomi.com) where you can sing a lyric and it recognizes the song. There is a phone number you can call and let your phone listen to a song in a shop for instance, and it recognizes the song and artist (great for copyright protection). Amazon.com opened up a service where you can SMS 
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