2. WHO I AM?
• Senior web-developer at a Cambridge based web-agency
• Product
design and manufacture engineer from
Loughborough
• Rapid prototyping
• CNC machining
• Want to make a difference
• @digitales
3. A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY
• Web 0.0 - Text based
• Web 1.0 - Humble
beginnings
• Web 2.0 - Read/write web
• Web 3.0 - Semantic web
• Web 4.0 - Making it real
again
4. WEB 1.0
COMMUNICATION
• Brochure sites
• One way communication - publish once
• Expensive
to create and server - £1000s for servers/
equipment
• Publishers create content, then consumers/ visitors read it.
• Like traditional media - Television
5. WEB 2.0
5 MINUTES OF FAME
• Coinedin 2003 at O’Reilly media conference. Also know as
read/ write web
• Opened up the web - two way communication
• Collaboration - Wikis, Blogs (commenting), video sharing
• Facebook, Twitter
• Amazon - web 1.0 and web 2.0
6. WEB 3.0
SEMANTICS
• Adding meaning to content
• Geo-coordinates on photos - Flickr, Facebook
• Geo-coordinates on messages - Twitter
• Meta data on photos, e.g. camera details on Flickr
• 234 billion websites (December 2009)*
• Aid in discoverability / find-ability
* http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/
7. WEB 4.0
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
• Speculation on my part
• Buildingupon the semantic web to bring information back to
the real world - Making information tangible.
• Couldbe natural progression of e-commerce - uniting old
technology with new media - magazines, printing (2D and 3D)
10. NABAZTAG
WIFI RABBIT
• Created by Violet sold for around £100
• API
• Second version added RF ID reader
• Light
system - Weather, e-mail, messages,
stock market
• Speaker - receive music, jokes
11. AUGMENTED REALITY
• Add extra-information via a screen on the real world
• Following GSP co-ordinates - treasure hunts
• QR codes
• Pepsi bottle labels
• DVD cases for 3D effects
• iPhone/ android apps
12. 8 FACES & 24 WAYS
NEW MEDIA, OLD TECH
COLLABORATIVE
•8 Faces - online collaboration
• 24
ways - online advent calendar turned into printed
book
• Postcrossing.com
- sending random postcards
around the world - spreading culture and
experiences
13. INTELLIGENT PEOPLE
• Tech support - computer eating floppy
disks, so please e-mail instead.
• Web-page scrolling
14. GPS / SAT NAV
• Obvious when people just follow GPS - they drive erratically
• Although useful, they can reduce the ability to read maps or do
route planning.
• Stanhope ford - since 2001, emergency
services rescued 23 vehicles stuck in ford.
• Closed at start of 2008 Reopened April
2008. Within hours 2 people already got
stranded. It’s still closed.
15. COMPUTER SAYS NO
• Blindly follow computer
• Strict
systems to guide people
without them needing to think
• Spell checking
16. SOCIAL NETWORKS
• Building
the trust of their users whilsts learning their bahaviour
and interests
• Started recommending friends
• Good expanding networks
• Oncethey trust a system, people can blindly follow
recommendations - good for companies, users might loose
out
• Twitteris slightly different, if there is too much noise, it’s easy
to unfollow to stop it.
17. MEETUP.COM
• Good tagging and categorisation of groups
• Send out regular recommendations, but the idea is to bring
together people in the real world.
• People choose the categories to subscribe too
• It’s the choice of the user not the company
18. MAKING THINGS REAL AGAIN
• Rapid prototyping
• Laser cutting
• 3D printing
• Nike shoes
19. SKYNET, OR A BETTER WORLD
• It’s
down to us to make the most of the incredible
opportunities that the web represents in relation to the
products we design
• Although a lot of benefits can be gained, history indicates that
it can lead to a loss of creative thinking when the freedom of
expression is removed for the sake of productivity.
• Convenience often triumphs over quality - Vinyl, CD, Mp3
- Landing pages / sites\n- No interaction from the users.\n- Like TV - high cost of entry\n- Not like Radio - this has lower cost of entry\n
Collaborative platform, everyone can read content and have the tools to publish content - leading to a 2 way communication platform\nCompanies interact directly with customers - Giraffe restaurant use it to improve clientele loyalty\nRead/ write web - Tim Berners-Lee\n
Semantic web will use meta data to add meaning to content- ease with find-ability\nTrueknowldge is a good example of the next stage in search engines\n
Using web / internet information to enhance the real world.\n
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Take photos (tag them), booking confirmations via e-mail, write blog post, buy souvenir from Eiffel tower\nWant to see photos from trip, wave the souvenir at a digit photo frame, or place it near to the frame. A slideshow of pictures appear\n\n- A few years have passed and you want to go back to Paris, but can’t remember the nice hotel you stayed in\n Pick up the trinket/ souvenir to get the trip information, then visually choose the information you want. The power of the internet can then find the up-to-date hotel information.\n- Make finding things easier\n- rediscover lost treasures - like toy chest from your past that you could find in your parents’ house attic/ loft.\n-Different type of interface could open up the benefits to more people - old, disabled etc\n
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Using information to add meaning\n- Museums or historical landmarks\n-Translations\n- London Tube - http://www.presselite.com/iphone/londontube/\n
- 8 faces - the team is all around the world, web tech allowed them to keep in touch and create the magazine.\n- 24 ways - using old technology (printing) to enhance online media\n- Postcrossing - sending postcards to random people around the world.\n
Tech support - computer eating floppy disks\n- Charity funder not knowing webpage scrolling was possible\n- only found out when one day she asked why the paragraphs sometimes ended at odd places.\nPeople don't want to feel silly/ stupid- so they don't ask questions of things or systems they don't understand.\n- Older generation like to understand how things work, computers are just too complex to be able to understand exactly what makes them tick/ work.\n
Man drowns in lake : http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Spain-Drowning-Drive-Lake-La-Serena,news-8202.html\nhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/uk-drivers-trust-gps-more-than-their-own-eyes/\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11697555\nStanhope in county Durham\n- Since 2001, emergency services have rescued - closed at start of 2008 - reopened april 2008 - afew hours later 2 people got stranded and needed rescuing.\n\nhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article707216.ece\n- Locals in Luckingham - helping stranded motorists, at a cost.\n- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/8259800.stm\n- driver left car teetering off cliff edge after driving on footpath - sat nav told him to0. Robert Jones, 43, £370 fine + £500 damages and £15 victim surcharge.\n
Spell checking - copy writer at work used to shout at his computer everything it auto-corrected his copy text into American English.\n
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Laser cutting saved my final year project.\nBrother e-mailed CAD designs of his shelf designs to a company\n- they machine them, and delivered them to him. It all fits together without glue - self supporting.\n