Horizon2007:Emerging Technologies

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2007 Press Clippings

The initial listing of new clippings was culled from a variety of sources, including the NY Times, PC World, Technology Review, InfoWorld, Wired, and our Horizon reBlog.

We'd love to see your clippings here as well! Please use the edit link above to add more (see format notes), or add comments on how or why you think they may or may not be important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon Project Wiki, we ask you to identify your comments with your initials, as I have here [LJ], so that we can follow up if we need to ask further questions.

  • Better Mobile Web Browsing
    http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16985
    The popularity of surfing the Internet on the go has designers building applications with simple, easy-to-use navigation.
    [SEM] Important stuff at the endI thought the important bit of this article was the comment towards the end "Although better mobile browsing is obviously an improvement, some wonder whether trying to recreate the computer surfing experience on a mobile device is like print publications trying to replicate the reading experience on a screen." The paragraph following that suggests that we need to think more about how and why people use phones for targeted experiences--I don't really want to browse my website, I just want to find that one piece of information I'm looking for.[hmw]
  • The ESP game
    http://www.espgame.org/
    The ESP game is an experiment in human computation originally conceived by Luis von Ahn of Carnegie Mellon University (who was just awarded a 2006 MacArthur Genious Grant. The idea behind the game is to use the computational power of humans to perform a task that computers cannot yet do (in this case, labeling images) by packaging the task as a game. [SEM] Google has incorporated a version of this as the Image Labeler [AL]
  • Community 2.0 (TechLearning)
    http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191901615
    In many ways, Elgg represents everything that's appealing about the Web 2.0 movement: community-oriented, user-driven, low maintenance — and wide open. "The days are numbered where you can give people one system and expect that to satisfy everyone's needs," says Tosh. An alternative to myspace, that's a good thing Can't help but feel at this point, however, that we now actually have more tools than we can ever conceivably use, understand, adopt, and adapt. Feel like I've walked into a store with a million different hammers and all I really want to do is hang a horseshoe. [hmw]
  • JumpCut
    http://www.jumpcut.com/
    The future of online video is here. Upload your media, grab shared media, create and remix movies, publish to your friends, share with the world.[SEM]
  • SIMILE Project (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments)
    http://simile.mit.edu/
    SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools based on Semantic Web technologies that improve access, management and reuse among digital assets.[SEM]
  • Smart City 2020 (Metropolis Magazine)
    http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1848
    Our cities are fast transforming into artificial ecosystems of interconnected, interdependent intelligent digital organisms. This is the fundamentally new technological condition confronting architects and product designers in the twenty-first century.
  • Welcome to Windows Live
    http://www.ideas.live.com/
    Your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. That's the basic idea behind Windows Live™. So the things you care about—your friends, the latest information, your e-mails, powerful search, your PC files, everything—come together in one place.
  • YourSpins
    http://www.yourspins.com/
    Within YourSpins, you'll be able to share your mixes of top songs with others, rate and comment on other mixes - and chat, mail and IM other people too.


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