Notes from the morning introductions
How do you keep up with emerging technologies?
- children (teenagers)
- students
- conferences
- listservs
- requests from users
- journals (The Economist, Business Week)
- example: The Economist on Web 2.0
Glimpses from the survey
- Common technologies
- usage (email, course management systems)
- awareness (RSS, blogs)
- Unevenness: wireless access, wikis
- Interest (tagging)
- New stuff of interest
- Flickr (community, copyright)
- del.icio.us
- podcasting
- digital storytelling
- videoblogging
- MMOGs (for example, Second Life)
- new mapping tools (Google Maps)
- Not of interest
- geolocation
- mobility: networks and devices
- social software meets mobility (Dodgeball)
Added to our survey in discussion
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- eportfolios
- mobile phone uses - text messaging
- information management, aggregation, PIMs
- realtime video
- virtualization (and simulation?)
- VOIP