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2011 Horizon Report (Ed. Tech.)

Education | 2011. 2. 19. 22:13 | Posted by 스마트 안전보건

The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE are proud to present

this year's research in emerging technology!

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The Horizon Report 2011 is available for download now at

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report.pdf

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This year, NMC took a look at six technologies the Advisory Board agree

are going to be widely adopted in the coming years.

 

The report covers mobile devices, electronic books, game based learning,

augmented reality, learning analytics, and gesture based computing.

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon

Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging

technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning,

and creative expression within higher education.

 

This video and report slides give an introduction to the report and what we've studied.

The full report can be read at:
http://www.nmc.org/publications/2011-horizon-report

 

 

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The results of Global Mobile Awards 2011

Creativity | 2011. 2. 17. 01:11 | Posted by 스마트 안전보건

App of the Year on the Apple Platform

Rovio/Clickgamer/Chillingo - Angry Birds

Angry BirdsCitation:
“This is the 50 million plus-selling app that catapulted the benchmark for mobile gaming higher than ever, it is innovative too in terms of in-application monetisation.”



App of the Year on the BlackBerry® App World Platform

aResearch In Motion - BlackBerry Messenger

Blackberry MessengerCitation:
“The benchmark for real-time, mobile instant messaging application that offers deep integration with the phone’s address book and media gallery.”



App of the Year on the Android Platform

Google - Google Maps

GoogleCitation:
“This has been one of the most frequently updated applications on the market, and the latest iteration has made it simply one of the best mobile apps out there today”.



App of the Year on the Nokia Platform

Herocraft & InnerActive - Zum Zum

Herocraft & InerActiveCitation:
“Boasting captivating game-play, attractive graphics and simple rules. Ranked the number one game in Ovi Store in 2010, generating over six million game plays per month at its height”



Best Mobile App

Rovio / Clickgamer/Chillingo - Angry Birds

Judges' comments:
Angry BirdsThis is an application that is simple, intuitive, incredibly addictive, and perfect for “snacking” consumption. It has underlined the importance of the applications market, and helped raise the credibility of small independent developers outside the mainstream.



Best Mobile Advertising & Marketing Campaign

Mobilera - Outeractive - Unilever Cornetto Multiplayer Interactive Wall  Projection Mapping Game

Judges' comments:
Mobilera An innovative demonstration of brand promotion - with good customer interaction - accomplished on feature phones, giving it a broad reach. The element of fun adds value and catalyses interest.



Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Solution

Antenna - Antenna Mobility Platform (AMP)

Judges' comments:
AntennaBringing consumer type apps to work for enterprise users and their customers is an important new area of development. This forward thinking capability really enhances the effectiveness of enterprise users and their transactions with customers and suppliers.



Best Mobile Money Product or Solution

Airtel Africa, MasterCard Worldwide and Standard Chartered Bank - Airtel Card

Judges' comments:
Airtel CardProvides a developed-world service to the developing world with great use of existing and readily accessible technologies (such as MasterCard’s network) to open up commerce and banking to the unbanked and underbanked.



Best use of Mobile for Social & Economic Development

Ericsson and Flexenclosure - Ericsson Community Power

Judges' comments:
Ericsson and FlexenclosureGreat use of a transformative technology, to give back to communities and improve their lives at no cost to them, whilst safeguarding the mobile operator’s infrastructure.





Best Mobile Money for the Unbanked Service

Vodafone Group, Safaricom, Vodacom, Vodafone Essar Limited and Roshan Ltd - M-PESA

Judges' comments:
Vodafone Group, Safaricom, Vodacom, Vodafone Essar Limited and Roshan LtdThe success story continues. This solution is enhanced further with the addition of new features and territories. It is winning ground in a way seldom seen in the mobile industry and is a true and sustained success story.









Best Product, Initiative or Service for Underserved Segments

BBC World Service Trust - BBC Janala

Judges' comments:
BBC JanalaA mobile education programme (teaching English) integrated with content online, on TV and in print, focused on those living on less than $2 a day. Lessons are downloadable, or provided on demand (at a quarter of the standard charge). A truly great product.



Best M-Health Innovation

Mobisante Inc - MobiUS

Judges' comments:
Mobisante IncA highly innovative product, which has the potential to make a very real difference in healthcare to many disadvantaged groups. $1 a scan – amazing ability for this solution to reduce the cost of ultrasounds. This product has taken the best of mobile and made it into a life saving device.




Best Mobile Learning Innovation

Urban Planet Mobile and PT Telkomsel - Urban English, Mobile English Learning Initiative

Judges' comments:
Urban Planet MobileA simple, genial yet exciting innovation; based on sound business models to reach the underserved markets.




Best Mobile Innovation for Utilities

EDMI and Sierra Wireless - EDMI EWM100 Advanced GSM/GPRS Modem

Judges' comments:
EDMI and Sierra WirelessA fantastic product concentrating on solving the issues presented to utilities in gathering meter data using wireless technology.

Highly Commended
Logica for Logica Charge Point interactive Management System (CiMS)
This type of solution is essential to the development and customer acceptance of the electric vehicle. A truly innovative solution. This product could well set the agenda for how electric vehicles interact with the electric grid.




Best Mobile Innovation for Automotive & Transport

Nissan Motor, AT&T, NTT DOCOMO, and Telenor Connexion for - ICT Electric Vehicles

Judges' comments:
Nissan Motor, AT&T, NTT DOCOMO, and Telenor ConnexionA truly innovative solution using smartphones for remote control and diagnostics for electric vehicles, allowing drivers to monitor and reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The ability for drivers to compare performance characteristics with other drivers is highly relevant, adding a social dimension to the solution. It sets the standard for others to follow.





Best Embedded Mobile Device (Non-Handsets)

AT&T and VITALITY, Inc - AT&T-connected Vitality GlowCaps

Judges' comments:
AT&T and VITALITY, IncThis is a clever and interesting product that solves a genuine problem – one that can affect anyone, anywhere. Well thought through, the GlowCaps proposition presents a new business model offering global potential for the m-health market.




Green Mobile Award for Best Green Product/Service or Performance

Bharti Infratel - GreenTowers P7 Project

Judges' comments:
Bharti InfratelA great effort, one of the largest green power initiatives for mobile towers anywhere, helping prove the viability of green energy technologies on a large commercial scale.




Best Mobile Device

Apple - iPhone 4

Judges' comments:
iPhoneGreat screen, sharp design, fantastic materials, and phenomenal ecosystem for app developers. In a tight race, the iPhone 4 built on the success of its predecessors to set the pace for smart phones.



Device Manufacturer of the Year

HTC

Judges' comments:
HTC This company has built its market presence from nowhere, with fresh branding and marketing and a strong portfolio of devices across many platforms. In particular, it has proven an exceptionally popular and enduring phone manufacturer. With great communication and good customer service, this is a well-deserved award.
Highly Commended
The HTC Desire set the bar for Android phones across much of the world in 2010. Packed with great features, this is an enduring product that has performed consistently well.



Best Mobile Broadband Technology

Ruckus Wireless - Ruckus Mobile Wi-Fi Gateway System

Judges' comments:
Ruckus WirelessA very timely and interesting solution. By focusing and constantly steering transmissions over the best (fastest and cleanest) signal path, the Ruckus Mobile Internet Smart Wi-Fi system is an innovative and truly converged WiFi/mobile system



Best Mobile Technology for Emerging Markets

Orange - Orange solar base station programme

Judges' comments:
OrangeA simple and practical solar power technology which has achieved widespread commercial deployment.



Best Technology Breakthrough

Seven Networks - SEVEN Open Channel

Judges' comments:
SEVEN Open channelA truly urgent and much needed solution that addresses key and critical issues for today's exponentially growing mobile broadband networks.



Best Customer Care & CRM

Airtel Africa and Tango Telecom - Tango Telecom’s ‘Dynamic Pricing Service

Judges' comments:
Airtel TangoIn any region of the world this solution would be a clever one that monetises under-utilised network capacity, manages QoS and delights customers. However, what excited the judges was that solution gives access to mobile services and can deliver life-changing benefits to Africans.

This example clearly shows how Africa is fast shrugging off its reputation as *just* a developing, high-growth telecoms market concerned with supplying basic services, and is rapidly transforming into a market where there is a great deal of innovation and some very clever solutions to both local and global mobile challenges.

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2011 Free days in Denver

Life & more | 2011. 1. 7. 22:47 | Posted by 스마트 안전보건

These are 5 organizations provide free admission to Colorado residents on

select days of the year. Free Days are funded in part, by the citizens of

the metro area via the SCFD 0.1% sales and use tax. It's a great value,

so check out the dates below and have a free day! Additionally,

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The organizations (Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver Zoo,

Denver Art Museum, Denver Botanic Gardens and The Denver Center for

the Performing Arts) provide bookmarks listing their free admission days. 

Download Free Day Bookmark.

To the right are links to many of our funded organizations who also free events.

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6 predictions of social network in 2011

Creativity | 2011. 1. 4. 06:31 | Posted by 스마트 안전보건

The past year was an eventful one for the world of social networking.

Facebook went on an acquisition spree. Twitter started growing up.

And MySpace? Well it’s the same old story over there.

In 2010, we predicted that Facebook would conquer the web. We just didn’t know the social network

would do it so convincingly. We’re not oracles, though, and we did miss on some of

our acquisition picks. Well, time for round two.

Now that FacebookFacebook is clearly king, what is going to happen to the rest of the world’s social networks?

What will happen to BeboBebo? What’s next for MySpaceMySpace? And will Facebook finally hold that IPO?

Here are my predictions for what will happen in the world of social networking in 2011:


1. Google’s Social Networking Efforts Flop Spectacularly


Google dominates search. It has nailed mobile. Oh, and it owns YouTube, the web’s biggest video

property. So why the heck does it fail so miserably at social?

Until this year, Google’s had middling success in social — YouTube, Gmail, Gtalk, Blogger and Orkut

have all had varying levels of success. This year though, Google Wave was shut down, Google Buzz

flopped and Google’s big social initiative has been delayed due to in-fighting and a lack of clarity and purpose.

Here’s my first prediction of the year: Google’s social media efforts will be spectacular failures. TechCrunch

nabbed a screenshot of the “Google +1″ social toolbar, one big component of Google’s social plan, we’ve

been told. We remain unimpressed, though. As Buzz demonstrated, sticking something social on a page

doesn’t mean people will instantly use it.

More importantly, Google as a company is built for speed and efficiency, neither of which are critical to the

success of a social network. That’s why we predict another horrendous year for the search giant in the social realm.


2. A Middling MySpace Is Sold Off

Despite a total redesign and overhaul, MySpace continues to plummet like a boulder pushed off a cliff.

While we’re fans of the social network’s attempt to reinvent itself as a “social entertainment destination,”

the frank truth is that MySpace is bleeding money and there’s no end in sight to the bloodshed.

Eventually MySpace will bottom out; we just don’t know when. It won’t come soon enough for News Corp.

though, and it will start looking for someone to take its high-profile Internet property off of its hands.

MySpace is still a valuable asset in the right hands, so somebody will pick it up.


3. Bebo Gets a New Owner… Again


Bebo’s fall from grace is one of the sad stories of social networking. When we first covered Bebo in 2006,

it was on its way to becoming a powerhouse. In 2008, AOL acquired Bebo for $850 million, an astounding

(and overvalued) price point.

Six months ago, AOL sold Bebo for about $10 million to Criterion Capital Partners. Then they made a few

big moves: they hired Kevin Bachus, co-creator of the Xbox, and brought Bebo co-founder Michael Birch back

as an advisor and investor.

Bebo’s still shrinking though. Unless Birch and Bachus can orchestrate a comeback of Rocky proportions,

Criterion Capital Partners will start looking to make money on its investment or at least minimize its loss.

Even if it makes a comeback, Criterion’s reportedly interested in selling Bebo this year.

We expect Bebo to be in new hands by this time next year. The most likely acquirers, we believe, would

be a group led by Birch himself.


4. No Facebook IPO in 2011


There have been countless rumors about a Facebook IPO since 2007. The media has been waiting

with baited breath for the day that Mark Zuckerberg cashes in on his baby and turns his company public.

I’m here to tell the media: Don’t hold your breath.

I could create a list of reasons the size of an SUV why Facebook and its billionaire leader aren’t going

to be raising money on the public markets. Here are just a few of them:

  • Mark Zuckerberg is famously uninterested in money. He believes in delayed gratification and has
  • lived in a modest home for years — he’s the opposite of the far more extravagant Larry Ellison,
  • co-founder and CEO of Oracle. In other words, he’s in no rush for a big payday.
  • Secondary markets like Sharespost have changed the game for cashing out on investments.
  • In the past, VCs needed to cash out on their investments by acquisition or IPO, but as Accel
  • Partners proved last month, VCs no longer need an IPO to do so.
  • Zuckerberg sees no strategic advantage to an IPO. In fact, it’s just a lot more paperwork, headaches
  • and scrutiny. He’d love to delay that as long as possible.
  • Facebook doesn’t believe it’s ready for an IPO: “Facebook would benefit from another year of growth
  • absent the added scrutiny that comes with a public listing,” Business Week reported earlier this year.

The result is that there won’t be a Facebook IPO in 2011. So long as the company’s growth metrics are

strong, Facebook has no need for the public markets. When it hits its saturation point though, that’s when

you should expect the social network to make its move. I predict that will happen in 2012.

Image courtesy of Charis Tsevis


5. Twitter Has a Very Boring 2011


While I don’t consider Twitter a social network, many people do, so it’s only appropriate that

I provide a prediction for what will happen to Twitter in 2011.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t come up with anything interesting: Twitter’s going to have a steady

and boring 2011.

Sure, Twitter will launch new features, and senior execs will continue to step down and new people

will take their place, but that’s what happens to any maturing business. Now that Twitter has new funding,
has launched its ad platform and has launched a complete redesign, is there an earth-shattering event

that could take us by surprise?

I don’t discount it; I just don’t predict there will be one. An IPO makes no sense with the new round of

funding. A redesign isn’t necessary. Really, Twitter is focused on its ad platform and will launch features

that enhance it. Twitter will slowly continue to grow, but I don’t expect Facebook-like hockey stick growth.

In 2011, Twitter is going to be one of the most boring social media services around. And I know

the Twitter team is just fine with that.


6. The Social Networking Trend of 2011: Mobile Photos


Pokorny was discussing during his Ignite talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. He argued that

publishing has evolved from the desktop (blogging) to the phone (tweeting) to the smartphone (photo-taking).

While social photography is nothing new (Flickr and Facebook dominate), mobile photography is just

beginning to blossom, thanks to apps like Instagram, PicPlz, Path, and Dailybooth. Other services like

Tumblr, Gowalla, Posterous and most recently Foursquare are only pushing the trend further.

2011 will be the year mobile photo sharing becomes all the rage. These services will hit critical mass as

smartphone users install apps in order to keep up with their friends. I also predict that Facebook will join

the fray and implement new mobile photo-sharing features integrated with its Places platform, bringing

the whole trend to another level.

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Mac App Store Open Jan. 6th 2011

Creativity | 2010. 12. 18. 23:56 | Posted by 스마트 안전보건

The Mac App Store is just like the App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Great Apps for your Mac

So it’s as easy to find and download Mac apps as it is to add your favorite

magazine to iPad or a new game to iPod touch. You can browse Mac apps

by category, such as games, productivity, music, and more. Or do a quick search

for something specific. Read developer descriptions and user reviews.

Flip through screenshots. When you find an app you like, click to buy it.

 

The easiest installation ever

The Mac App Store revolutionizes the way applications are installed on a computer.

it happens in one step. Enter the same iTunes password you use to buy apps on

iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. And within seconds, your new app flies to your Dock,

ready to go.

 

Keep your apps up to date

Developers are always improving their apps. That’s why the Mac App Store keeps

track of your apps and tells you when updates are available. Update one app

at a time or all of them at once, and you’ll always have the latest versions.

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5 design trends in 2011

Creativity | 2010. 11. 23. 06:23 | Posted by 스마트 안전보건

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable

regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the past 12 months, we’ve seen a lot of changes in the world of web design. Growing popularity in the mobile device space — including smartphones and tablets like the iPad — have refined the way many users access and interact with content.

 

Likewise, the formal adoption of web standards like HTML5, web fonts and CSS3 by browser makers means that more and more users are now able to take advantage of the latest and greatest features on the web.

1. Lose the Flash

Regardless of where you stand in the war over Flash, the fact remains that more and more sites and web developers are moving away from Flash-only solutions for video, animation and navigation.

Flash still excels when it comes to building fully interactive designs and Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs), but for small business owners who aren’t showcasing or providing that sort of experience, trading Flash for HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 might just make more sense.

2. Web Fonts

Typography is an important — I would argue crucial — component of any web design. Historically, customizing the typography you use on a website has been a complicated and headache-inducing process. As a result, most designers were reduced to either using the small selection of web-safe fonts or using workarounds like text images or Flash as text replacements.

3. Mobile Compatible/Optimized Sites

More and more websites — big and small — are taking the time to make their sites small screen friendly. Having a mobile compatible or mobile optimized website means that not only will your site load faster over cellular data connections but that content will be better formatted for the screens of smaller devices, making it easier to access and understand.

4. Inspired By Tumblr

The popular microblogging platform Tumblr (Tumblr) is a great way to quickly and easily post updates, share content and garner direct visitor feedback. Tumblr has become a really popular platform and more and more small businesses are using it for their own company blogs or sites.

5. Touches of the Future: HTML5 and CSS3

As I stated in the introduction, it can be difficult for small businesses that aren’t in a design-related field to adopt many of the cutting-edge web design trends for fear of shutting out parts of their potential audience.

Read more at mashable.com

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