Announcement: 2nd Dresden Future Forum
T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH will host the 2nd Dresden Future Forum on 16th November 2006 in order to discuss what’s behind the much-cited term “Web 2.0” and which opportunities and potential the Internet of tomorrow entails.
The event will – as its name already suggests – take place in the City of Dresden, where 800 years of history meet innovation and high-tech.
Highly renowned experts representing various specialized fields, including Tim O’Reilly, who has played a vital role in filling the term “Web 2.0” with life and Prof. Richard Scase, influential business strategist from the UK, as well as Dr. Curtis Carlson, innovation-driving CEO at SRI International, will present their specific viewpoints and impressive visions as a basis for discussion.
The Outlook for Corporate Blogs
Jim Nail, Cymfony’s chief strategy and marketing officer writes in mediaconnection.com about the current use of corporate blogs, the benefits they offer and what’s ahead.
He claims that 2007 will be a breakthrough year for corporate blogging and therefore provides us with five indicators to prove his forecast right: Weiterlesen…
Is Web 2.0 just a useful combination of WWW-Standards?
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 his main idea was to share information between people and to communicate in that information space.
He also thought of the Web as “a realistic mirror of the ways in which we work and play and socialize” one day. Today, parts of these dreams are our world’s reality. The amount of information available on the WWW and the fact of more and more people using it in their everyday life shows that we already seem to benefit from his ideas.
Visions for the future
Dresden celebrates its 800th anniversary this year. Several events have already taken place or will take place during the year.
One example of how to combine the city’s past with future visions and ideas is the congress “Zukunft der Visionen” (Future of Visions) from 13th to 14th October 2006, where several institutions will present their visions of the future in their field: science and technology as well as religion, society and media. Although, the actual outcome of this vision is yet unknown, one thing is for sure: There will not be a uniformed vision about the future for all parts of life. In fact, the future will be a mix of different visions, ideas and systems.
Pupils from Dresden primary schools have already visualized their visions of the future. Now, institutions and companies are asked to send in their ideas about the future in their sectors. All contributions will be shown at the congress.
Tim O’Reilly – Keynote Speaker at the 2nd Dresden Future Forum
Tim O’Reilly – the pioneer of Web2.0 in Dresden! Tim O’Reilly will give a keynote speech at the 2nd Dresden Future Forum on 16th November 2006.
Since he has initialized the Web2.0 development of these days with his Web2.0 conference, it suggests itself that he is going to speak about Web2.0.
The topic of his keynote speech:
What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Yet far from having “crashed,” the web is more important than ever. Its resurgence is spurred by a critical mass of exciting new applications and sites that share common principles and practices, dubbed “Web 2.0″ by O’Reilly Media. In his keynote, Tim O’Reilly explores the design patterns and business models characteristic of Web 2.0 companies.
Haven’t we heard of this title before? Yes, of course.
In this article, Tim O’Reilly describes how Web2.0 services have been evolved and what Web 2.0 means for business.
Also, listen to the podcast “O’Reilly’s Guide to Web2.0″: Tim O’Reilly explains the new era of the Internet after the dotcom-buzz and what companies can learn if they carefully study the changes in the business and apply new services to their communication needs along the supply chain.
Web 2.0 Competition
In line with the second Dresden Future Forum and in collaboration with the Technical University Dresden the T-Systems Multimedia Solutions is announcing a Web 2.0 competition.
It’s open to all academic students of Saxony, Germany. Submissions are to be handed in until the 30th of September 2006.
Sought-after are creative conceptions of web based technologies or services that are largely based on the common idea of Web 2.0. A prize of EUR 1000 is awaiting the winner of the competition and the second is going to receive EUR 500. Both will be announced, on November 16th, 2006 at the second Dresden Future Forum, where the winners can also take part. All participants of the contest will automatically enter a raffle for iPods.
Wearable Computing – what is new?
It has been very quiet around the subject of wearable computing the past three years.
But now, since new wireless technologies (e.g. MANET , Bluetooth offer new possible application for the field of wearable computing (e.g. Spy camera sunglasses, Running Mates , sport wrist camera and Bluetooth-iPods) it comes back into public focus. Weiterlesen…
Mehrsprachiges Bloggen – Multilingual Blogging
Klaus Eck diskutiert in seinem Blog die schwierige Entscheidung, in welcher Sprache Firmen bloggen sollten.
Auf jeden Fall sollte ein Corporate Blog in der Sprache publiziert werden, die für das Unternehmen den größten Stellenwert hat. Viele Konzerne dürften sich deshalb für Englisch entscheiden, weil sie damit ihre globalen Zielgruppen am besten erreichen.
Im Fall unseres Blogs „Dresden Future Forum“ haben wir wahrscheinlich bisher den unkonventionellsten aller Wege gewählt: Wir haben uns fürs Erste für eine Mischform entschieden: Die Sprache der Beiträge hängt von der Sprache ihrer Quellen oder weiterführender Links ab.
