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There was an inspiring AR congress in Rotterdam, NL, on 4th of Dec and I had the honor to be in the hosting team with Claire Boonstra (from famous LAYAR) Christina Rittchen (Mobilizy – the guys from Austria, who created Wikitude), Truus Dokter of ItFits, Jan Misker (project manager for V2_ AR), Artm Baguinski, Carl William Kerchmar, Kwela Sabine Hermanns. See links for more here: http://portaltoyourdreamsblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/v2-ar-ecosystem-hosting-team.html
- The site for the gathering: Augmented Reality Ecosystem — V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media http://www.v2.nl/events/ar-ecosystem
- The v2ar community, growing – join! http://v2augmentedreality.ning.com/
- My presentation “Augmented Citizen (towards an ecosystem)” left my mind map behind from time to time, but here is the mind map anyway: http://www.mindmeister.com/36532577
Get some impressions of presentations and the creativity of the breakout sessions here:
Update 2009-12-21
- Find developer camps for Augmented Reality next to you: ardevcamp.org
- changed word: gathering
Ever growing power of Google attracts political concerns and criticism.
The blog post of today is my comment I dropped on TechCrunch
Everyone loves TechCrunch. It is a bit grown to an empire by itself. That’s the way of network dynamics: Hubs emerge and alter the graph like a black hole changes the grid of space and time around. But anyway, TechCrunch is still really one of the top five relevant hubs for discussion and insight concerning serious web issues. One post of today made some wave (see the comment count as an indicator) and I commented on this. Comments are not quite dead (but there is a shrinking trend … Comments Dead, Twitter Holds Smoking Gun).
TC: The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO
Find this interesting article at techcrunch. The headline says it all. Good argumentation. It is really a bit alarming, that the guest author is writing anonymous. For more Google watching just google “googlewatch” 
and find serious places like googlewatch.eweek.com.
Google Watch – Googleopoly – Should Antitrust Laws Be Amended to Consider Google’s Use of Free? http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/googleopoly/should_antitrust_laws_be_amended_to_consider_googles_use_of_free.html
My Comment
(Looking for the source? It is page 2, ca. comment no. 100 techcrunch)
Dear Anonymous,
Google is not as stupid and fierce as the Cosa Nostra, to evidently put harm to people, who say something against them.But I completely understand your fear. It is the part of the problem!
Google has grown to a superpower with perfect dominance not only in the ecommerce field, but
it is one of the most admired and powerful companies in the world concerning INNOVATION power! And with a reason – I do admire Google too in this respect! Their strategy, vision and great R&D.BUT ….
Google is acting like a state, making peace around its borders. So even the admiration can be seen as the part of the strategic game.
(1) We geeks got more free tools that we can eat.
See my business mind map
Dear reader, you realized my low blogging frequency. I am so busy with projects and my own business development of <Strategic Labs> in these days of exciting developments in the media and communication industry.
Just follow @willischroll and watch my tweets about emerging trends and the future at twitter.com/willischroll.
Will microblogging kill the blogs, will it kill my blog? No way, don’t worry. Social micro and macro media are in great symbiosis! 140 letters is just too short for complex knowledge communication. But I see a bright future for twitter and other microcommunication stuff. As I twttered: It could be some stem cell (with pluripotent applications) in the coming realtime – social – semantic – sensing – paraphysical Web 3.0. Just think about a mashup like this, found at mashable:
++ Twitter Meets Google Street View: Stweet! http://mashable.com/2009/05/09/twitter-street-view/
At the worlds biggest IT fair, CeBIT in Hanover, ending on Sunday they tried something new. With “Webciety” there has been a new format to close the gap between hardware selling companies on the one hand and increasingly important web companies on the other. We hear this for so long and it is from year to year it is more true: We are on the way to web society / “webciety”. At the panel there have been issues like Enterprise 2.0, Social Computing and Identity Management – but the most interesting subject for me has been the upcoming and invasion of the “digital natives”. The consequences for enterprises, media industry and marketing are still in the debate. At webciety there has been a book presentation concerning the topic. You can access and download the book at scribd as a PDF (German):
DNAdigital – Wenn Kapuzenpullis auf Anzugtraeger treffen
Digital Natives – different mindset, communication habits and consumption patterns
Marc Prensky coined the term “digital natives” in the context of education some years ago (“Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” 2001). Since Gartner and other analyst firms took it seriously since 2007 today companies start to analyze more thoroughly the rather heterogeneous group of digital natives. The core definition is trivial:
A digital native is a person who has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3. (Wikipedia)
Prensky realized the disparity in the realm of learning and teaching – teachers are just ill-equipped to educate digital natives, whose sophisticated use of digital technologies is incompatible with practice in schools and universities. No question the disparity today is virulent in the enterprise context (actually I am preparing some stuff concerning the issue and Read the rest of this entry »
Copernicus changed our direction of perspective (source: wikipedia.org)
Hm, what a long winter break. Well, I have been reading some predictions for 2009 (like this at RWW or that at VentureBeat), I enjoyed texts looking back at 2008, too (e.g. Andrew McAfee or McKinsey). When I came across the RWW post I thought about my own “social media wish list”. I have to confess in the first place the radical and techno heretic thought occured to me: “Could please someone just stop the noise!” The majority of folks out there has no ”social media wish list” just because they are not participating. Their social networking is working fine with phones, address books and calenders – and so the question is: Why is it a mess for so many to organize the social life(stream) on the web? There is a complexity of service options, habits, expectations, aggregators and this makes users really tired. The landscpae is unripe and there is much space for improvements. I want to pick only one issue.
Copernican revolution of the social web in 2009?
When users complain about social networking one point is fragmentation and the resulting number of services and feeds one has to manage. So, could we please have some paradigm shift with the services serving the user and not the other way round? This Copernican revolution of the social web could mean to build up a technically autonomous layer for identity, authentification, social relation management. This is like a u-turn in perspective and isn’t it this, what the ideas and approaches of social network portability etc. are about? But reducing the work load to manage the networks will not be enough to bring the social dimension to flourish.
Social network concepts of today are primitive and stupid
It is time to integrate professional experts of the social in the development process – i.e. the guys of the sociological and humanities department. Think about the “collision of worlds” and role conflicts, when the social architecture (relation modes, transparencies, “hiding places”) is not adequately designed. User control and service transparency have to be much better to avoid the user’s dilemma (what to show and what to share with whom). There have to be relation types (friends, family, relatives, colleagues etc.) with differentiated rights to share parts of your life. For the moment I would call this “transparency management” – which is more than identity management. To understand the issue just read this article: ABC News: Friended by Mom and Dad on Facebook.
Image source: en.wikipedia.org
Update: Links
Social media are mainstream (in some countries more than in other)
The concept of web 2.0 was under attack since the beginning and today in 2008 it sounds a bit old fashioned, at least for people like me using it since years. But actually we see again little bits of web innovation dynamics, recognize new phenomena in these days.
Consider e.g. the spreading of microblogging services like twitter – it is no accident that yammer.com was prize winner of TechCrunch50, just a “twitter for business”. And at DEMOfall 08 the winner was Plastic Logic’s ebook reader – will it be disruptive? Then there is the reality of new platforms – an emerging mobile
Chrome browser: Next step of Google to rule the web? Picture: blogoscoped.com
SIGNAL: Google has acknowledged the existence of browser “Google Chrome”. It will be released today.
Details e.g. at blogoscoped.com
CONTEXT: Google has grown over the years and became one of the biggest economical power structures worldwide.
It looks as if Google Inc. will go on to shape the world of the beginning 21st century like no other company. Think of market domination in search and online advertising business – at least in most countries. Think of Read the rest of this entry »
This is a post in honor of Charlene Li, who is a researcher at analyst firm Forrester and is leaving the company this month.
Forrester has bent over backwards to be accommodating and flexible, but in the end, I have decided that I need to have greater control over how I allocate my time between work and family. As any working parent knows, there’s no such thing as balance – only a series of compromises (…)
The title of this post is the subtitle of the book “Groundswell“, Charlene has been writing with Josh Bernoff. From the short introduction at fastcompany.com:
[S]ocial media — blogs, wikis, Facebook — has impacted the way customer’s interact with your brands. These elements of a social phenomenon — the groundswell — has created a permanent, long-lasting shift in the way the world works. Most companies see it as a threat. You can see it as an opportunity. (The Future of Groundswell)
