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Apple Patents: Your Next iPhone Doubles as a Walkie Talkie
Apple's putting up iPhone patents at an incredible rate: Two new applications, one for a walkie-talkie-like accessibility feature and another for a spontaneous wireless social network are very sophisticated. What Apple's essentially suggesting is that in future iPhone tech you'd be able to voice-SMS someone, with an electronic voice recognition and generation system handling the data-to-audio conversions at either end. Is iPhone 4 going to be super-awesome? The first patent has just been uncovered by Apple Insider , and it dates from November.
Fast Company - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Lords, ladies and video games
Many of these studies investigate the concerns she has about whether games might be affecting attention spans or whether online communication could be harming the social life of young people, but she seems unwilling to consider any of them. If you want to see my talk, I've put the slides from my talk online as a PowerPoint file and apparently, both sets of slides will appear on the website of the Institute for the Future of the Mind shortly, possible with video as the talks were filmed. I attended the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Scientific Research in Learning and Education yesterday to discuss "What is the potential impact of technology, such as computer gaming, on the brain?"
Mind Hacks - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Yahoo EVP Ash Patel, One Of the First Yahoos, Announces His Departure
Patel says Yahoo is in a transition period but is building the infrastructure it needs to compete in the future. Everyone is focused on social right now, he says, and so is Yahoo. He says he’s going to take a few months off with his family and start to think about the future this summer. Ash Patel , a senior Yahoo exec and one of the company’s longest serving employees, will shortly be stepping down. His last day will be next Monday.
TechCrunch - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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  • The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank
    What was once called social search is now called real-time search, but this time it will really happen. What we are about to get is a Social Relevancy Rank . Whenever you search streams of activity, the results will be ordered not chronologically but by how relevant each is to you based on your social graph. FriendFeed has recently launched a search feature, and so Facebook search must be coming soon. Real-time Web search (of streams of activities) is a hot topic right now .
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, July 16, 2009
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  • Yes, Your Social Media Strategy Needs Design
    In nearly every conference room across the business landscape it's inevitable that at some point the phrase "social media" enters the discussion. What if we looked at "social media" as a design problem? As someone who started a career as a designer (graphic design and user experience design) and is currently exploring business opportunities in social media — which I think of as social business design — I can't help but Marketers, PR and salespeople are among the first to engage in the discussions, trying to figure how networks can be leveraged to sell more stuff.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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  • Three Instantly Effective Social Media Strategies
    If you've got an experienced social media team, a solid budget and an appetite for innovation, you can create an original online presence that engages your customers or supporters in an entirely new kind of online experience. That doesn't limit your social media options to a generic corporate news blog or a standard-issue Facebook page. But many organizations lack the time, budget or experience to start from scratch. Here are three great options for robust social media presences that let you manage cost and risk by building on existing tools and established best practices.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 27, 2009
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  • When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media
    Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private social networking Enterprise 2.0 The company implements an internal-only social networking platform that allows rating, tagging, and comments on products and services. platforms, consider the following two scenarios based upon real examples and ask how the executives at your company would react: An executive publishes her
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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  • The future of universities
    Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on the Internet. The Future of Higher Education : How are universities likely to be impacted by current technological trends? Two publications seek to address this question: The Tower and the Cloud :
    elearnspace - Monday, November 3, 2008
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  • The Web of Identities: Making Machine-Accessible People Data
    In this post, we'll draw a picture of how the emerging social Web could serve as a Web of identities, which is essentially a people-data version of the Web of data. In an email, Chris Bizer hinted that a payment model to charge for particular content may come in future. Technically, modeling our identity, profile data, social graph, groups, activity stream, assets, and other kinds of personal data is straightforward. In a previous article, we discussed the Web of data , which is about inter-linking open data sets and, thus, turning them into machine-accessible structured data.
    ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, July 11, 2009
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  • Futures of the Internet
    Earlier this year the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University conducted research toward The Future of the Internet IV , the latest in their survey series , which began with Future of the Internet I – 2004 . This latest report includes guided input from subjects such as myself (a “thoughtful analyst,” they kindly said) on subjects pertaining to the Net’s future. We were asked to choose between alternative outcomes — “tension pairs” — and to explain our views. Here’s the whole list:
    Doc Searls Weblog - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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  • How I use social media
    This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media use today, and perhaps surface some of my patterns. The history approach also shows that while the term “social media” was not in play when I jumped in, the social use of online media has been growing for many I These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology are
    Full Circle - Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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  • Ten Futures
    Drawing on Richard MacManus's 10 Future Web Trends , this is a bit linear, but has the virtue of identifying future trends, not things that are around today. Mobility We will again in the future become a species of nomads, moving in tribes and herds through society, grazing on energy and information inputs as they become available. Consumer goods - ubiquitous today - will become expensive and 1. The Pragmatic Web Forget about the Semantic Web.
    Half an Hour - Thursday, September 6, 2007
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  • Rethinking Social Relevancy Rank: What's Missing?
    The future of search almost certainly involves social networks, social graphs, or social filtering in some capacity. Companies will live or die by whether they get the "social" part right: creating the right level of intimacy, trust, reliability, social connectedness, and accuracy in their results listings. Social search. Of course, this specifically means that their user experience must at least meet or, preferably, exceed that of Google's. To achieve this, we must first stop arguing over the different flavors of search.
    ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, July 26, 2009
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