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Kwabena Boahen: Making a computer that works like the brain



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Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web

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Photosynth - Future collaborative image browsing

I was amazed when I first saw this as it combined two main technologies, one being their Seadragon image zooming and the other a technology that literally analyses and stitches together images in to a 3D space (no not the Quicktime equivalent).

For me though the future link is when they line up the idea of dynamically pulling semantic content from Flickr, because the content is already tagged, its a no-brainer to see how humanity could document the world through images.

The exciting part is linking this back to broader content through the existing semantic connections already created.

Multi Touch Screens

Multi Touch screens have been around for sometime now, although the majority of people have not seen this yet, in Europe they are already part of the furniture of bars and clubs.

The cost is already down significantly to make this a real technology to change our lives on an interesting level. Both for fun but of course we have all seen minority report and how it can be put to serious use (and I don't mean predicting the future).

Thinking Juice wins 'People's Choice Favourite TV Advert'

Thinking Juice wins 'People's Choice Favourite TV Advert' In a recent UTalk Marketing and OMD Snapshots survey of 1,000 consumers.

Thinking Juice, our sister agency in the Uk, with their latest TV advert for Wyke Farms was voted best, beating John Lewis (Lowe London), Sony Ericsson (Iris) and Magic FM (St. Lukes) to become 'The People's Choice' with a massive 33% of the vote.

Adobe AIR 1.0 and Flex 3 Launched Today

The long awaited release of both Adobe AIR and Flex 3 has finally arrived. AIR's main purpose is to give developers the power to produce practically any type of application, concentrating on usability not just functionality.

This also puts back the creativeness back in to applications, limited only by your imagination. We can finally stop talking about it and get on with it.

The support has been amazing, most major brands have been involved in one way or another, from AOL to Salesforce and eBay to VW, Nike and Nasdaq.

Flock - The Social Browser

I quite like this, its what they are calling a social browser. A mixture of web and desktop application.

You can manage all your stuff in a panel on the left, Facebook, Flicker, Youtube etc. plus keep track of your RSS and Bookmarks, very cool.

 

Browsers Enter the Space Time Continuum

We do a lot of research everyday to make sure we are aware of how the world is shaping up according to our own predictions and I think browsers are becoming an important part of how the future of us as users will interact with the internet.

In the past we only had a couple/few choices, which to be honest is all you want if you're doing web development, but now with a lot of standards being adhered to and the core engines being used in other products, it is becoming less of a problem.

Drupal Best Open Source CMS 2007

According to an article from Packt Publishing, Drupal, the platform that Ad.WRIGHT team is very competent in, day in... day out... is voted the best overall Open Source Content Management System. That is great news for our Ad.WRIGHT team and at the same time, great news for our customers!

Here are some of the excerpts:

Rising of the Asian Search Giant and Online Advertising Space...

According to a recent report by comScore in its first ever study of the worldwide search activity, Google retained its global search crown in August, but some smaller competitors in China and South Korea are giving the company a run for its money in Asia.