Day 1 | Welcome to web2.0 EXPO!
Thinking Hard About the Future with Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media, Inc.) – determining emerging technology trends and advocates the importance of the tech community.
- We’re living in a bubble…we need to be thinking creatively & differently
- We are in the maker movement -> we have to invent the future! (Easier to invent the future than predict it)
- Rethink the whole economy…work on stuff that matters! What does matter? How do we build a better future?
Inspires & leads to some of the changes that become really important in our world
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- Dennis Crowley (foursquare) – discussing gaming elements to encourage people to explore the cities in which they live
- Foursquare tells us about our friend’s lives
- Internal check-in history -> digital breadcrumbs
- Lets make cities easier to use, the world better to explore
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A Conversation with Esther Dyson (EDventure Holdings) & Bre Pettis (MakerBot Industries) – biggest changes in medicine…& the impact of exercise / stress / health
- Don’t regret making mistakes…creating is a process
- The FitBit – monitor health for long term achievement
- Be focused, start with a contact and a market you know & understand
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Movies are in 3-D, why not our Data? Taking Web 2.0 into the 3-D World with Julia Grace (IBM Research-Almaden) – how the 3D movement is changing Web 2.0
- Movies are designed for implementation
- We are trapped in Tron…but is that a bad thing?
- The future will be here very soon
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Apple and the Open Web with John Gruber (Daring Fireball) – focusing on Mac and web nerdery
- Apple & the open web: a love story -> “Internet is in your pants”
- Apple came out with social apps such as Ping & Game Center
- Web 1.0 is HTML; Web 2.0 is HTTP EVERYWHERE
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Games that Know Where You Live with Kati London (Area/Code) – designing for new types of play
- Time is a spectrum, and online game design platforms seek to affect behavior in the real world
- Mayorships: change relationships and social reputations
- Game systems build cities into gameboards & create extended deep players