Future Tech

Devices

• phone/palm convergence but still diverse
• phones used for... phone calls?
• OS? who cares

Content

• authoring
• meta-data, geo-tagging
• collaboration? Mmmm....?
• better UI experiences - your joking right
• synchronisation across personal devices/locations
• RSS - users need easier consuming tools, tech love it, others leave it, suggestions for RSS deployment not acted on.
• 3D on the web?

Entertainment

• multimedia, DRM
• games, multi-player
• digital TV, Video over net

Commerce

• marketing/advertising
• micro-payments
• dont underestimate the big content boys, old media

Infrastructure

• web serving - http, maybe, web services yes
• TCP/IP v6 - every device an IP and app srvr
• broadband and VOIP

Services

• SOA and reuse of other/external services
• http://aws.amazon.com/

Development

• monolithic apps vs granular services
• all singing all dancing IDE ... of course :-)
• BPEL, SOA and orchestration - easier
• the framework wars
• web dev culture vs classic IS
• easier to build app frameworks, maybe ala RoR
• Javascript - eeeek!!!

Society and Community

• do people even want/need any of this shit?
• we're over it backlash?
• The Digital Divide
• e-lationships

Strategy/Management

• what are you doing, why are you doin it, who are you doing it for
• solving a problem vs "the big idea"
• university thinktank startups vs coal-face solution solving

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See Also: Web Development | Notes Index

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