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Adobe is trying to get its Flash player installed on more mobile devices.

Adobe will stop charging licencing fees for mobile versions of Flash and plans to publish information about the inner workings of the code. Wikinomics concept: The move is the latest in a series that are aiming to open up Flash and get MORE devleopers working with it.

How twitter was used to backchannel a conference.

Excellent overview from Jeremiah about the use of twiter to backchannel at a conference. Backchanneling is something I think that is very important, but there is very definitely a best practice.

Here were my comments to Jeremiah:

"I am a classroom teacher and LOVE the backchannel (they are great for test reviews -- like group notes and more) and won't do a conference presentation without one, that being said, I wouldn't use twitter for it.

Like you said, many people don't use twitter or get it.

I like to create a "backchannel room" so that it is archived and recruit ahead of time at least two people:

1) A backchannel "moderator" - they answer questions and I call on them several times to ask for their summary of what is going on in the backchannel (this is when I'm the main presenter)

2) A google jockey -- they drop the links I'm talking about in the backchannel chat.

I also like to ask the people in the backchannel to share best practice and what they are doing. I've had people comment that the one hour with a backchannel and me presenting was more meaningful than a whole day at a conference. (More compliments to the backchannel, I'm sure.)

I've seen backchannels handled very poorly and it was TERRIBLE. It was chaos. And actually downright rude to the speaker. (More like backstabbing than backchanneling.)

I've also seen it used well and it was incredible!

The archiving of the backchannel gave me rich links as a presenter and participant AND also feedback on the session which I referred to later as the presenter.

The backchannel is great -- I just like to use a backchannel ROOM especially for the session (inviting "friends" from around the world who are also watching on ustream) -- and then creating an archived copy of it.

I think backchannels are very important and you've hit on the core of what is happening in the evolution of professional development and conferences. "

The Internet is the platform - a tool for harnessing collective intelligence. Data has become the "Intel Inside" and software is above being written for just a single device, meaning desktops, laptops and mobile devices.

Some good trends identified, some sites listed where they are working for 'a higher purpose'; the value grows based on the number of participants. Could have some ideas for a mulit-media artifact.

Juggling spreadsheets, music, and reports between PCs may get a lot easier with a new Microsoft service called Live Mesh.

The service allows you to create a Web-based Live Desktop complete with Windows-like folders that can be shared with others and can be synched to multiple PCs. Can be extended to cell phones.

Live Mesh is mostly a file-sharing and folder-synchronization service, as well as a nice, easy way to access a PC remotely.

Microsoft continues to attempt to negotiate with Yahoo -- this is an important piece of information to take a look at for the horizon project students -- Microsoft + Yahoo = A viable competitor for google? Is Google hurting Microsoft that much? These are things to look at as you review emerging trends.

The Microsoft + Yahoo collaborations and their competition with Google are important trends for the government_business groups to understand and review.

This is the effort to have ubiquitous log in ID's for people across the Internet.

Places to get an Open ID -- this important technology allows people to have one user ID to log into many sites -- and because it is a distributed ID -- you can keep using it even if your main site dissappears.

Users of XO -- this is a srver that allows people to share anything on their XO laptop with others -- there is a link with discussions and information on this server -- so if you have an XO laptop-- take a look. This is sharing knowledge.

The XO laptop is an important trend to take a look at as one discusses how people are connecting.