Trends and Technologies in Where 2.0
Date: Thursday, September 18
Time: 11:35 - 12:25PM
Location: 1A08 & 10
Track: Development
Tags Development, user generated content, ugc, geo location, where 2.0
Web 2.0 has demonstrated the power of user-generated content, personalization, and mobilization. The fear that the Internet would create a web of anonymity has proven false as users primarily use web sites and services to meet new friends and access social groups.
Similarly, we are just now seeing that the Web also didn’t abolish the
importance of location and proximity. Users are using services to find local business and friends to meet up with. They are finding serendipity through advanced geographic recommendation services.
This session will discuss the current evolution of Where 2.0 and how it is affecting the entire landscape of Web 2.0 and next generation applications. Open standards such as GeoRSS, KML, and Microformats provide a huge wealth of information for mashups and applications, and libraries such as Mapstraction can be used for cartographic visualization. To illustrate the power of these tools we’ll talk about some interesting GeoHacks that have pushed the boundaries of geospatial applications.
We will also look forward to the future of location-enabled applications and services that developers can utilize today to provide users with better contextualized and localized information. Mobile sensors, augmented and immersive reality, and geo-games are just a few of the next generation Where 2.0 domains.
Comments
Not what I expected, but interesting. The first overview was good, got an understanding of where this session would go and what it would be about. The next part I would describe as "out there". I was not aware of the Burning Man Earth project, interesting concept. I noted down some of the sources referenced in the slides, but probably can't use them. I stuck around through the whole session finding myself scratching my head at the end. Maybe I should have went to another session, or maybe everyone else in the session felt the same way.
When I go to conferences, there is often one hour where nothing looks particularly interesting, so I go to something I wouldn't ordinarily attend. Your session was the one I wouldn't ordinarily attend, but wow, it was a nice eye-opener. Now I realize that the whole new crop of digital cameras are offering geotagging, so that in a few years, everyone will be able to map vast areas (did you ever try to find an address in Belarus on Google Maps?). I guess the "how we did it part" added a human element to it, but I liked the more didactic part. Thanks!
Glad you liked the session overall. It is always difficult when preparing talks to gauge the very broad range of interests, technical skill levels, and hopeful take-aways. So we wanted to appeal to both executives and strategists as well as 'geeks' - and give both a survey of what's possible and coming up. Hopefully everyone went away with an idea of the landscape, and particular resources to investigate, or get your team/company to look at closer.
Thanks, and feedback always welcome!
Also, here are my slides from the first half:
These guys gave a very diverse sample of possible location based applications. Unfortunately there wasn't much to be said for organization or relation between these applications, other than Burning Man :)
Part one was a whirlwind tour through word that start with "geo"; that part was good, but needs to slow down.
Part two was a whirlwind tour of one guy's geogeekery at Burning Man. Not sure how this added any value or described the state of the art. I walked out during this part of the presentation because I was bored.
Much like some others, this isn't at all what I was expecting but turned out to be fairly interesting.
I actually left this halfway through because it wasn't what I expected. From the title of the session, I thought it was going to cover more about new ways to use geo-targeting and other location-specific apps online. While this was a *cool* session, it wasn't particularly useful.
I enjoyed both parts. I thought the first did cover on-line resources for geoservices well. I also enjoyed the second half. For geodata (or any data) to be used on-line it has to be collected. I liked seeing the emerging technologies that are being experimented with in order to collect and prepare the geodata for our use.
I loved this session. Really for gear-headed mash-up geeks, but I really enjoyed it (and I'm in marketing!). Thanks guys. Really cool stuff.
Their slides: