This accomplished NYU research scientist demos this fascinating technology - one of several emerging - which will revolutionize how we interface with our machines. Watch the video and be amazed. Think of the implications to data visualization or to the physically challenged and how this type of technology will leverage the power of the tools we have at our disposal today. Conforming to physical devises is one of several paradigm shifts that will increasing accelerate the benefit of our machines.
In the 1980 book, The Third Wave, futurologistAlvin Toffler coined the term "prosumer" when he predicted that the role of producers and consumers would begin to blur and merge; he even described the concept his 1970 book Future Shock . Toffler envisioned a highly saturated marketplace as mass production of standardized products began to satisfy basic consumer demands. To continue growing profit, businesses would initiate a process of mass customization, that is the mass production of highly customized products.
With the advent of technology Toffler's vision is increasingly becoming a reality. More recently, The Cluetrain Manifesto noted that "markets are conversations" with the new economy moving from passive consumers ... to active prosumers
Animoto is a very neat
Amazon-powered application and exemplified the "prosumer" revolution as well as new cloud based business models.. Built on top of Amazon EC2, S3, and SQS,
the site allows you to upload a series of images. It then generates a
unique, attractive, and entertaining music video using your own music
or something selected from the royalty-free library on the site.
One cannot over emphasize the impact telepresence is and will continue to have on organizational and individual capabilities for numerous reasons but particularly this. The result will be continued increasing applications of revolutionizing methods of global orchestration at even greater speeds. Translation: more rapid change than ever before.
The recent NYT news article on the wider application of tools that deliver unparalleled interaction with global participants via high definition video, Voip, and document and application sharing reflects how these are quickly becoming more widely adopted. Continued advancements in bandwidth availability and evolving technologies, like Videyo's, are going to make access to these tools available for individuals and organizations at increasingly lower costs. Those who embrace these methods of interaction will be able to reach markets, obtain services, build relationships and source and distribute products and solutions in ways which were unthinkable only a few years ago.
Long the purview of multi-national organizations with deep pockets, the spread of these solutions to the mainstream will profoundly affect the business, non-profits, NGO's and individuals world wide while providing the opportunity to improve or save lives through the delivery of medical treatments, reduction in the degree of business travel that impacts families adversely and the conservation of valuable global resources. Take a peak at this Polycom demonstration of the profound implications these revolutionary technologies are having.
For those who do not know, a widget is a snippet of code and can be anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML,
i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not
static. Generally widgets are third party originated, though they can
be home made. Widgets are also known as modules, and plug-ins.Applications can be integrated within a third party website by the
placement of a small snippet of code. The code brings in ‘live’ content
– advertisements, links, images – from a third party site without the
web site owner having to update.
End users can utilize Web Widgets to enhance a number of web-based hosts, or drop targets. Categories of drop targets include social networks, blogs, wikis and personal homepages.
Although end users primarily use Web Widgets to enhance their personal
web experiences, or the web experiences of visitors to their personal
sites, corporations
can potentially use Web Widgets to improve their web sites using
syndicated content and functionality from third party providers.
The use of web widgets has been increasingly proposed as a marketing channel that could replace the less effective targeted banner ads and take advantage of the viral distribution in social networks. This usage has been criticized as ineffective [1]
on the basis that users of a social space are not mainly in a mindset
receptive to information exposition but one of content creation..
With Widget Box I was able to create several widgets. One of them if from content on a very excellent site Web Strategy by Jeremiah. I also used Widget Box to create a widget from my RSS feed for inclusion on other sites as well.
A major opportunity exists to leverage global orchestration utilizing inexpensive and easily enabled high quality tele-presence. The skype revolution, which suffers from severe quality and participant limitations, is being surpassed by a new technology recently developed and launched by Vidyo. The video below demonstrates the incredible flexibility of the system. Expect new solutions to emerge surrounding this tool in the near future. Bottom line, it will be much easier and more effective for organizations to orchestrate the cooperations of individuals and entities across the world as the result of much higher quality and ease of use. The Revolution continues on.
This accomplished NYU research scientist demos this fascinating technology - one of several emerging - which will revolutionize how we interface with our machines. Watch the video and be amazed. Think of the implications to data visualization or to the physically challenged and how this type of technology will leverage the power of the tools we have at our disposal today. Conforming to physical devises is one of several paradigm shifts that will increasing accelerate the benefit of our machines.
