David Pogue keynote
Posted by: Richard
May012008
(very broad liveblogging)
David Pogue "sticks his neck out" to predict five rising technology trends.
Convergence of phone and internet
VOIP, Vonage, Skype, TMobile @ Home
GrandCentral.com (phone call forwarding)
Google Cellular (texting Google to get business lookups, weather, driving directions, etc.
800 GOOG 411
Voice-to-text, e.g., SimulScribe, CallWave
Popularity Dialer (funny way to get out of a meeting)
RFID transmitters (embedding transmittable digital information in library books, shipping pallets, pets!, clothing, prisoners!)
FuturePhone: free international phone calls via Iowa due to a government subsidy for calls from rural areas, but they've been shut down as a result!
A la Carte Video
Hulul
iTunes Video
Web 2.0
Facebook, YouTube, Craigslist
"Blogs can put a face on a company" -- a more personal face on an organization (my note: this works when regular employees post about daily life, not when an organization posts official notices in a blog-type format)
Less well-known sites that are incredibly successful at putting people in touch with each other around certain information:
Prosper: person-to-person microloans
Kiva: Microloans for international businesses
Goloco: ad-hoc carpooling
E-Petitions: UK site for anyone to create a petition on any topic
Who Is Sick?: tracking what illnesses are going around
tags: acpe08
Richard Kassissieh is Director of Information Services at 
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