Topic: Science and Technology (general)
As the creator of Notes and Groove, Ray has been changing work through communications tools for 20 years. In this presentation recorded at
Supernova 2004, Ray discusses recent experience using Groove in a truly distributed enviornment: support of humanitarian operations in Iraq. Think of it: There's no IT department, no Xerox machines, everything must be secure, and oh yeah...people may be shooting at you. The inside-the-beltway folks are thinking centralization: servers, but they're not addressing the social-software realities of how people work and how they form ad-hoc relationships.
The panel of experts explains and probes the latest nanotechnology research efforts -- some controversial, some just plain fascinating.
Jon looks back at what hasn't turned out quite as he expected (digital certificates for everyone?), where things are today (dynamic languages and the open-source desktop), and what he sees as changes on the horizon (thin clients, solutions to spam, and the growth of RSS).
What new technologies is Ann looking at that offer the potential of fundamentally changing the rules in the marketplace tomorrow? What types of companies is Hummer Winblad Venture Partners investing in today?
This week, Phil Windley on SpamCop.net's blacklist and a new feature on his website called Ask Phil. Rich Miller has been blogging for Netcraft and covering the SCO v. Everybody_Who_Uses_Linux lawsuits. Robert Scoble reads 1,348 RSS feeds and produces The Scobleizer weblog, which is read by 2,000 people.
Find out how Phil learned he'd been added to SpamCop.net's blacklist and how he managed to get his IP address removed. He's launched a new feature called Ask Phil at www.windley.com. He tells us why he's trying out web forum software rather than use the comments feature of his weblog.
In this energetic interview with IT Conversations' host Doug Kaye, we get to know the personal side of Chris Pirillo and a sense of what makes him tick. He also has a chance to get on his latest soapbox: touting the virtues of content syndication using RSS or Atom.
[Full title: Emotional Design: The Principles] Don Norman used to be known as a critic of unusable things but now, he says, he has changed. He has transformed himself into an advocate for pleasurable, enjoyable products. Beauty is good, says Norman. Successful products should a pleasure to use, and convey a positive sense of self, of accomplishment, and pride of ownership.
As has been the case with every transformational wave of fundamental technological innnovation since the Canals, the short-term greed of the Internet Bubble financed a Darwinian explosion of exercises in building out the necessary infrastructure and of experiments in finding commercial uses for it. When the bubble inevitably collapsed, it left behind two sets of road maps: at the application level, the business models that worked, such as Ebay and Yahoo! and Amazon; at the infrastructure level, a set of challenging technological requirements needed to deliver a distributed computing and communications environment as scalable and secure as it is robust and easy to manage.
In this keynote, Tim and Etech program chair Rael Dornfest introduce you to the thinking and themes behind this year's conference and some of the people and projects they're watching and working with.
