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

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  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

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The RIA (Rich Internet Application) Community of Practice launched the RIA Coding Challenge on October 3, 2008.  This initiative was jointly sponsored by SI&T Technology Architecture, AIMS, the IDC, the Accenture Technology Labs, and Accenture CIO.

The objective of the Challenge was for individuals across Accenture to create innovative and useful enterprise desktop applications based on newly opened Accenture APIs and the latest generation of RIA technologies – getting inspiration from our fresh Desktop RIA PoV and guidance through our RIA Architecture Toolkit.

When the submission period was closed (November 28, 2008) the jury had to review some amazing desktop mashups - imagined and developed by 15 teams from around the world.
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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.
 

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The 28th of October will be a big date for Accenture Technology Architecture: it is the day of the first Open Source Conference. The Open Source Conference 2008 is a large event organised by Accenture and RedHat. During this day a large number of international keyplayers in the current Open Source market will attend. If you are interested in this event, please check http://opensourceconference.nl. If you want to be where it all happens regarding Open Source, be there!

Since a few years mobile devices more and more received touch screens which allow for interactive user experience in your hand-palm. Looking at the iphone this really shows some Eye-Candy but the negative side of this is that it leaves no space for a solid ordinary keyboard.

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It has been a while since my last post, so another update.

3 Weeks ago I attended the Technology Architecture School (an Accenture training) in Kuala Lumpur. The Technology Architecture School is a very interesting school not only from a social perspective, but also from a technology perspective.

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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…