thanks for reading the blog during the last two years. due to time constraints etc i decided to stop writing this blog and delete it beginning of 2010. hope you enjoyed reading it, it was a pleasure.
merry christmas and a happy new year, enjoy the time with family and friends. good bye…
matthew inman from the Oat posted a very true comic about the obstacles in web development. and by obstacles i mean customers… well, see yourself.
Click on the picture to see whole comic
btw: thanks jan for sending over the comic.
interesting news from the search engine giant: google will integrate real time information in its search engine. meaning: google will aggregate information from twitter, facebook, friendfeed and others and publish them as a first search result. search.twitter.com and friendfeed.com/search will basically feed into google.
what is the benefit for me?
real time information is a very good indicator for trend analysis. if you want to know what people think of today’s news, a new product, music etc, real time bloggers give a very good indicator. as well this information is up to date. if i want to know about something that happened ten minutes ago, google will (most likely) not have any information about it. but twitter will. and so will google – in future.
what about bing?
bing integrated twitter as well, but focused on bing maps. it lets users see content from twitter, microsoft photosynth, neighborhood blogs and other sources on the surface of the map. i assume its just a matter of time until bing integrates real time information.
how will it appear?
real time results will be appear as the first search result and will be updated on the go like a news feed. check out the following video to see more details.
some weeks ago i was assuming what to expect from google chrome OS. yesterday it went live at the google chrome event in mountain view and pretty much met my assumptions from my previous post. please find a summary of the meeting on techcrunch or http://chrome.blogspot.com/
for the ones that still cant imagine what it is about, please check out the video below.
10gui presented a very interesting concept video regarding multitouch options for desktop solutions. as stated on the website:
“The purpose of the 10/GUI concept video is to inform, inspire, and start discussions. An ocean of experimentation, iteration, investment, and adoption lies between these early ideas and whatever the future of HCI will hold. Will the principles of 10/GUI prove viable? To test these waters is the only way to find out.”
project natal is a new microsoft xbox solution. it detaches human computer interaction from physical interaction devices via movement- and voice recognition. similar to nintendo wii does the user control the console by natural movements but without a controller in his hand.
since project natal was developed for xbox the gaming sector is the natural choice, still it might get used in many more fields than just for gaming. let me share some use cases:
the question is if microsoft will offer an open API for project natal. i am sure that many developers would be encouraged to write applications since it offers a whole new way of interaction. i agree with creative director Peter Molyneux who says that natal is going to create whole new genres of games (or else). ’start with a blank sheet of paper and write on the top of the blank sheet of paper what you want people to feel when they interact’.
i have to admit that i still do not have a paypall account – and do not think that i need one. but if they make possible what they show in their visionary video i might want to have one. on 3rd of october paypall opened their platform to the developer community out their.
from a developers perspective this opens a whole new bunch of possibilities. ubiquitous computing will finally reach cash machine devices and approximates shopping and living. the boarders between social environment and shopping become transparent – or even vanish if we want them to.
i do not agree, i think we will see first applications already in 2010. with open API´s every startup can develop applications in this direction. and they are fast and lean and want to explore what is possible out there.
i am not sure if mastercard or visa have similar API´s but i am sure they will follow soon if not. the use-cases are very divers and interesting for every payment provider out there. because being implemented in an automatic shopping card payment solution (as seen in the video) will generate an extreme payment traffic (=turnover).
google chrome OS (gOS)
it was about time that a global player would announce to launch a web based operation system (OS). google (who else?!) recently confirmed rumors about chrome becoming an operation system. for me it is now clear why google initially launched chrome – not to become a player in the browser business but in the OS business (think big!).
the idea is as simple as genius: most office applications are nowadays available as rich internet applications (RIA) which are accessed via a browser. by making a browser an OS the initial OS-layer (like windows XP) just vanishes. the available RIAs replace the office package. only precondition: a broadband internet connection. google offers one of the leading RIA office suites, google docs, which will for sure be integrated into the chrome OS.
splashtop interface
the idea is not that new, but finally a big player announced to launch it. splashtop, a DeviceVM, Inc. product, provides a similar OS for Lenovo and Asus computers. but splashtop normally is installed together with an OS, because it is seen only as a browser shortcut and not as a platform to work with.
‘Splashtop is intended to be integrated on a read-only device and shipped with the hardware, rather than installed by the user. It does not prevent the installation of another operating system for dual booting. It boots in about 5 seconds, and is thus marketed as instant-on’ wikipedia.
advantages a browser based OS:
the google announced stated the following reasons for developing chrome OS:
‘We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.’
google heralds a new age of computing, the one we all dreamed of since using a computer: no boot time, locally unattached and always connected.
this commercial is just great. the nowegian company is seeking for future talents…
