Hans Eilers

Deze week heeft Google een nieuw product bekendgemaakt - App Inventor. Een omgeving waar een niet-programmeur programma’s kan maken voor Android.

Men kiest uit een menu programma onderdelen en sleept deze bij elkaar om een programma te maken.

Tijdens de proefperiode hebben scholieren al verschillende programma’s gemaakt bijvoorbeeld een applicatie die als je aan het rijden bent en een bericht (sms) ontvangt, automatisch terug sms’te dat je aan het rijden bent en later terug zal sms’n.

Deze tool van Google zal Android toegankelijker maken voor vele en een ware vloed aan Android applicaties opgang brengen. Nu kunnen ‘gewone’ burgers met hun Android telefoon prutsen en pielen zoals ze dat vroeger deden met hun PC.

MAAR echt interessant is dat Android niet puur een telefoon besturingssyteem is. Voor het eind van dit jaar staat Android, naast in je telefoon ook in auto’s, netbooks, magnetron’s en wasmachines, tablets en TV’s. WOW.

Stel je eens voor. Je kunt je TV aanpassen naar wens, programma’s (applicaties) voor je TV maken, programma’s maken voor je auto (uhh?!),  je wasmachine via je telefoon aanzetten of de magnetron bedienen vanuit je luie stoel.

App inventor is een bijzonder interessant product – deel van een goed uitgekiende strategie met een grote impact.

Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana

After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.Baloney.

Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works. Read more…

Zie deze artikelen:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/1

http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

en

http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/

De consequentie hiervan: wow. Terminator meets Borne Identity en dan echt.

Overal zie ik tekenen van deze technologie. Er komt een trend op gang.

Augmentend of beter gezegd – annotated reality – dat wordt de technologie van deze decade en de gevolgen hiervan zullen enorm zijn. Groter dan de gevolgen van de mobiele telefoon.

Like a wrote in my last Emerce article – webusage is starting to concentrate around the big web properties – portals, email and search engines.

Australians also spent a longer amount of time on Email Services, Portal Frontpages and Search Engines.

and

we’re also seeing a greater concentration in visits to the top 10 websites

This means even more that publishers should eat or be eaten so to speak. Make your content edible (via an API) and/or be a platform aggregating information and services.

Be usefull.

Read the full article.

Merry CHRISTmas

Over een trend die leidt tot minder websites en grotere portalen.

Emerce:Het web op zijn kop door mentale luiheid

Door de opkomst van API’s zullen er uiteindelijk minder bezoekers komen op ‘kleine’ webdomeinen. Deze bezoekers zullen hun informatie en transactie behoefte  kunnen bevredigen op de grote portalen.

Check out this comprehensive article by Jeff Jarvis on Google latest moves in the (post?) search space.

“Search will be customized, personalized, and targeted to us and our contexts: who we are and where and when we are asking for something. This, I think, could mean the slow death of the dark art of SEO.”

and

“I believe that’s what we’re seeing here: the start of Google’s view of itself after search.”

Enjoy :)

Google’s synchronicity by Jeff Jarvis

Ik ben geinterviewd door Camil Driessen.

“Internetexpert Hans Eilers van TheFactor.e denkt dat ‘het over een paar jaar heel raar is als er nog bedrijven zijn die inhouse servers hebben.’ “

Met je laptop in de wolken

Zoekmachines integreren steeds meer diensten die eerder al door ‘normale’ websites werden aangeboden. Gebruikers willen dit en vergelijkingssites verliezen hun bestaansrecht.

Ter inspirtie. Niet zo interessant dat het van Microsoft komt – eerder het beeld en de mogelijkheden.

njoy.

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I had the opportunity to go the The Next Web Conference on Friday in Amsterdam.

I came to be inspired and I was. The speakers in the morning focussed on the financial aspects of the next web. Of what made great companies and the difference between Silicon Valley and Europe.

In Silicon Valley there is a tremendous amount of venture capital available, in Europe this is different. But there is more. Europeans teach their students to be employees instead of employers and entrepreneurs. There is not a big culture of entrepreneurship in Europe. Not as much as it is weaved into society in the US. We depend to much on our government – social welfare institutions, insurance etc.

We do however have the big advantage of a consumer market with very good bandwidth. In the US they are far behind on this and will stay like that for some time. We also have growing mobile broadband penetration. We should build cutting edge applications, business models and concepts – now – to become leaders in these areas and close the gap between Silicon valley and Europe.

Something else about this stuck with me. We tend to develop concepts and ideas for our own respective markets. At a later stage we might transform them to fit in another european country. This is not very smart. Applications and concepts around them should have a global audience in mind.

Deborah Schultz gave a rather vague presentation of the value in the next web: people are important, weaving relationships online. We should become weavers, listeners, connectors, critics, partial geeks, detectives, catalysts, diplomats and jugglers. Being approachable, intuitive, inquisitive and driven by relationships.

Tapan Bhat(Yahoo!’s vice president of Front Doors, driving strategy, product management and programming for the primary starting points to Yahoo) gave a good talk about personalization & customization. Adding a P of personalization to the 4P’s (Product, Price, Promotion & Placement) of marketing. He talked about pre-demand personalization based on all the information you have of the client. Do not bother her right away with choices and options. Intelligently guess what she wants based on what you know.

The last speaker was Dick Hardt – Founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. An advocate of Identity 2.0, the user-centric approach to digital identity on the web. He has a very unique and enteraining way of presenting. He drew a parallel between buying liquor in Canada and buying stuff on the internet. About authentication & authorization. And how simple this should be. Interesting stuff.

Between presentation startups got 10 minutes each to present themselves. I really liked Mobiluck a instant social network based on the proximity of the members at a given point & time. Based on cellular technology. Another gem was Zyb. A site that is able to synchronize your contact and calendar from your phone to there site. And it actually works. eBuddy (msn gtalk etc via the browser combined) and Respectance (virtual cemetery).