Chief among our insights was that "the network as platform" means far more than just offering old applications via the network ("software as a service"); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.
building applications that literally get better the more people use them
Data is the "Intel Inside" of the next generation of computer applications.
ata is being collected, presented, and acted upon in real time. The scale of participation has increased by orders of magnitude.
lifestream
All of a sudden, we’re not using search via a keyboard and a stilted search grammar, we’re talking to and with the Web. It’s getting smart enough to understand some things (such as where we are) without us having to tell it explicitly. And that’s just the beginning.
But it’s important to realize that machine learning techniques apply to far more than just sensor data.
information shadows
geotagging
The smartphone revolution has moved the Web from our desks to our pockets. Collective intelligence applications are no longer being driven solely by humans typing on keyboards but, increasingly, by sensors.
With more users and sensors feeding more applications and platforms, developers are able to tackle serious real-world problems.
The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world – everything and everyone in the world casts an "information shadow," an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mind bending implications.
It’s easy to forget that only 15 years ago, email was as fragmented as social networking is today, with hundreds of incompatible email systems joined by fragile and congested gateways. One of those systems – internet RFC 822 email – became the gold standard for interchange.
They thus turn what at first appeared to be unstructured into structured data.
6-9 July 2010
Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
http://thelearner.com/conference-2010/
The deadline for the current round in the Call for Papers is 13 August 2009.
Web to work—its technologies, its business models, and perhaps most importantly, its philosophies of openness, collective intelligence, and transparency.
Last year we focused on where the Web met the world. This year, the Web is the world.
how the world is putting the Web to work to make business more efficient, culture more vibrant, and society more tolerant.
Big deal you might say, which is exactly what I said at first until I realized that Twitter was going to be the most powerful tool in my Professional Learning Network. A way in which I can share with others who in turn share with me, converse with me over interesting concepts in education and help shape my thoughts on the goings on in the education world and life itself.