Horizon Project 2008

Clearflow is an ambitious effort to add AI machine-learning techniques to the complex problem of predicting traffic congestion.

MySpace hopes to provide an alternative pilot process. Rather than spend millions of dollars on a test TV episode that might never receive a series order, the company hopes to use its social network as a test bed.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has moved to set up a system that would send text alerts to people on their mobile phones in case of natural disasters and other emergencies.

Hundreds of coffee-obsessed consumers chimed in moments after Starbucks launched a Web site asking customers to pitch changes the company should make to revive its struggling US business.

A good current example where a large business is asking customers what it can do to improve its business. It is asking for the collective wisdom of its 'prosumers'. This strategy is very much advocated in Wikinomics.

This is a good example on how data can / will be collected indirectly (implicitly).

It's not evil, but they are tracking users and clickstreams, which (are) the real currency of the Web, and most people don't care. If you can get all data, you can target ads and the user experience, such as showing a site in a different color, depending on user profile."

This short insightful article from Alan Levine with the new media consortium explains wikis beautifully. I love it!

This view on wikis is very accurate. Alan Levine is the VP of the new media consortium that wrote the horizon report.

Great website using Geocaching and ARG's.

We talked about Alternate Reality and a wealth of gaming tonight on Wow2 (a show the gaming as pedagogical platform group is going to need to listen to.) This is an online ARG (alternate reality game) for educators and uses Geocaching -- we're planning an upcoming show on geocaching on Wow2 -- if you know of any educators doing great work, let me know.

Fascinating article about cross-disciplinary collaboration. This is becoming something that is possible through new means of using the Internet.

Opensource web meeting software. Interesting.

This new platform for allowing people to meet using the internet with free open source software is very exciting!

A webcast with Diane Hammond, organizer of Yes I Can Science about her experiences organizing a blogging project between middle school science students and an astronaut on the space station. She has some interesting insights on the importance of active teacher involvement and engagement of the classroom.

This project is a great one to look at and Diane Hammond from Yes I Can Science is a wonderful resource!

Some backlash against e-mail is beginning to be seen as people realize that the inundations of e-mail is leaving to innefficiency. (This is also true for educational organizations -- too much productivity is being lost in email when we should be creating those reports using wikis and reflecting using blogs.) This lets one see how businesses are realizing that moving from e-mail collaboration to global collaboration using blogs and wikis may just be more efficient - -there are some new studies showing this as well.

This lets one see how businesses are realizing that moving from e-mail collaboration to global collaboration using blogs and wikis may just be more efficient - -there are some new studies showing this as well.

When one sees cartoons popping up like this, one can tell that blogging is becoming an issue that companies are grappling with. Many do not understand the "mystery" of blogs and how to drive traffic.

This humorous cartoon shows how companies are struggling with blogs and how they work.

You can see here the evolution of art itself.

Language and poetry are evolving as this hyperlinked poem shows.

The complete works of edgar allen poe are available for the ipod for free here at mogopop. I hope more books will be added.

Look at this site that lets one create on screen tutorials for the ipod. These are the educational mogopop's available.

Educational Videos Available on MogoPop -- these are video tutorials for you ipod.

CHINESE GOVERNMENT CENSORS have apparently slightly loosened their iron grip on yet another website, this time, Wikipedia.

The lastest effort in distributed computing tht aims to turn your computer into a node in a vast, distributed earthquake detection network.

Nice examples of short instructional videos on how to use Google Docs. It might stir up the creative juices for the creation of a multimedia artifact?

Don Tapscott is keynoting this year's Horizon Project -- we are very excited. This is the page where he will "deliver" his keynote which will be posted some time around April 15th, 2008. Mass collaboration does change everything -- we can connect with authors such as this!

A new site that is trying to use collaboration to write a lengthy document .