Topic: The Internet and the World Wide Web
Businesses are eager to use online conferencing, but have been unable to do so at acceptable price points. Dimdim, the world's free web meeting software, is aimed at filling the web conferencing gap that exists today. Listen to Prakash Khot and DD Ganguly as they discuss how Dimdim is driving adoption and leveraging open source technologies to make web conferencing simple.
For people trying to better understand Web 2.0, the problem is that it is not just about vocabulary. It boils down to systems that treat the consumer as their personal property vs. business systems that put consumers in the drivers seat. In this panel, three technology experts review Web 2.0 and how their companies have developed products and services that take advantage of it. Each answers questions individually, followed by a general Q & A session.
Bottom up content development and user generated submissions have triggered an intriguing pop-phenomenon. Anyone can be a video programmer and upload their creative effort for the entire world to see. But this initial growth stage in the Internet as a platform for video may only prove to be a precursor of what is to come. There are a mixture of relevant legal, technical and business issues that loom ahead, most significantly Hollywood's desire to protect its content at all costs.
Online social collaboration continues to grow in popularity as companies develop tools to greater facilitate its use. Socialtext was the first company to build around the wiki and its CEO Ross Mayfield joins Phil Windley, Matt Asay, and Scott C. Lemon in a review of technology news. Starting with a followup of last week's Oracle/Red Hat discussion, the group moves to such topics as the announcement of SocialPoint, Socialtext's integration with Microsoft's Sharepoint. Other topics include issues such as email reduction and Google's acquisition of JotSpot.
Web technologies in various stages of adoption are having tremendous impact on the way we all communicate and collaborate online. Ryan Freitas of Adaptive Path provides an overview of how online collaboration has evolved because of tools such as wikis, syndication, and blogs. He looks at the impact on how teams work together to use these tools both internally and externally.
Brian Capouch is proud of his rural Indiana roots but believes that the definition of rural should not include having to forego internet access and VOIP. In a lively and humorous presentation, the computer science professor from Saint Joseph's College describes his attempts to bring wireless internet and VOIP to a low density population, how he controls costs, and the threat posed to his endeavor by recent legislation.
The Apache Tomcat Web server, Roller blogging server and Derby database initiatives all share one thing: substantial contributions by Sun Microsystems. Apache is also incubating Harmony, an open source implementation of Java. In this episode, a trio of Sun open source leaders explains where and how Sun contributes to Apache projects, and why it is content for now to let Harmony proceed without Sun's direct contribution.
More than a quarter of internet users are aged between their early teens and their mid twenties. This group spends a third more time online than the next most active age group. With this in mind, Safa Rashtchy asks five teens searching questions about their digital habits. When trying to figure out what will be the next big thing on the internet, it's best to ask its users. Who better to ask, therefore, than those who spend a great deal of their time online?
Powered by Virtual Earth, Microsoft is building geospatial communities where you can fly around the globe and stop off at exactly the right local destinations. Stephen Lawler reveals how a natural language approach makes it straightforward to navigate and interact in multiple dimensions within an information-rich environment, opening up global access to local knowledge. New features let people mark up and stir in their own information to build on social networks and map out personal passions.
What exactly is Interaction Design and how can it benefit your next product or service? Dan Saffer, Senior Interaction Designer for Adaptive Path, peels back the onion layers of the Interaction Design discipline; a fairly new practice which is still taking shape. In this presentation, he defines what an interaction designer does, and how the practice fits into the larger scope of the User Experience community.
