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Some items that caught my eye (so far) from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show [DSC]

On 01/10/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, change, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, disruption, distance education, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, game-changing environment, human-computer interaction (HCI), interactivity, internet, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile technologies, multimedia, online learning, online media, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, social media, technologies for your home, television, transmedia, trends, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Some items that caught my eye (so far) from CES 2012:

  • CES 2012: The convergence of TV and mobile platforms — from readwriteweb.com by Dan Rowinski
    …mobile operating systems are on a path to fundamentally change how content is delivered.
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  • Prepare yourself: Kinect is coming to Windows Feb. 1 — from Mashable.com by Sarah Kessler
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  • LG unveils giant 84″ TV with voice, gesture control — from Mashable.com by Samantha Murphy

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  • Introducing The MakerBot Replicator™
    January 10, 2012 (Brooklyn, NY) – MakerBot Industries is excited to announce the launch of its latest product, The MakerBot Replicator™, which will debut at CES in Las Vegas, NV on Tuesday, January 10th.  The MakerBot Replicator™ is the ultimate personal 3D printer, with MakerBot Dualstrusion™ (2-color printing) and a bigger printing footprint, giving you the superpower to print things BIG! Assembled in Brooklyn by skilled technicians, the MakerBot Replicator™ is ready within minutes to start printing right out of the box. Starting at $1749, The MakerBot Replicator™ is an affordable, open source 3D printer that is compact enough to sit on your desktop. Want to print in two colors? Choose the Dualstrusion™ option!
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  • USA Network taps Yap.tv for branded social TV app
    Yap.tv said the deal will make it the first independent social TV developer to create a custom-branded version of its app for the iPad and iPhone for a major network.??
    NEW YORK – NBCUniversal’s USA Network has partnered with Yap.tv, a maker of a social TV guide app for mobile devices, to launch a USA-branded app for its shows and fans as it and other channels continue to expand the use of social media to reach and engage viewers.
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  • Samsung unveils a motion-controlled TV and the U.S. Galaxy Note [PICS]— from Mashable.com by Sarah Kessler
    During its keynote address at CES on Monday, Samsung unveiled a connected TV with voice and gesture recognition, WiFi-enabled cameras and its thinnest ultrabook yet. It also introduced its Galaxy Note smartphone to the U.S. for the first time.

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  • Coincident announces ScreenSync TV Technology — from marketwatch.com
    New solution allows companies to create interactive experiences for viewers that synchronize their tablets with shows they are watching on their televisions
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Moxie’s 2012 Trends Report [From DSC: Well worth your time!]

On 01/06/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, analytics, change, changing business models, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, communications, convergence, corporate / business world, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future, game-changing environment, global / globalization, human-computer interaction (HCI), internet, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, marketing/social marketing, marketplaces, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, more voice more choice more control, multimedia, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, pace of change, Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), reinvent, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, social media, staying relevant, storytelling, streams of content, tablets, technologies for your home, technology (general), telecommunications, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, workplace, by Daniel Christian

 

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The Evolving Digital Ecosystem - from Moxie's Trends for 2012

  • The Always On Web
  • Web of Things
  • Big Data
  • Next Gen Search
  • Mobile Sharing
  • Mobile Social Activism
  • Impulse Commerce
  • Brands As Partners
  • The New Living Room  <– From DSC: This is one of those key areas that I’m trying to keep a pulse check on for re: our learning ecosystems of the future 
  • Personal Data Security

 

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Our learning ecosystems may soon be expanding in scope/delivery mechanisms [Christian]; Global Smart TV market worth $265 billion by 2016 [Kastelein]

On 01/04/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, emerging technologies, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, technologies for your home, by Daniel Christian

Global Smart TV market worth $265 billion by 2016 — from appmarket.tv by Richard Kastelein

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From DSC:
You can bet educational apps will be part of these emerging technologies. My take on this is that:

  • The scope of our learning ecosystems will expand rapidly.
  • We will be able to participate in them as much or as little as we want to. I call it, Learning from the Living Room.
  • Such trends will likely go hand-in-hand with innovations involving social-based learning, mobile learning, personalized/customized learning, and will take advantage of cheaper ways of learning that will help one gain mastery over a particular subject/discipline 24x7x365 (and will be a piece of something I call The Walmart of Education) .

 

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Thomas Frey: Major Trends 2012…and beyond

On 12/16/2011, in future, trends, by Daniel Christian

Major Trends 2012

Excerpt:

We are in for a very exciting year ahead. 2012 is a year where many competing trends will collide, and through those collisions we will see new pathways emerge.

At the same time, many new trends are forming, some with enough steam to form entirely new movements, others that will run their course and splinter into other emerging ways of doing business.

The “new normal” is quickly becoming the “nothing normal,” and our daily routines, the things we use to maintain our own sanity, will need to morph and change if we hope to stay competitive in the emerging job market and even stay current in our own social circles.

With this in mine, I’d like to take you on a journey into some of the trends I’ll be watching in 2012 as the tectonic plates of change inch their way into new positions. Here is the first half of the 28 major trends to watch in 2012 and beyond.

Addendum 12/29/11:

 

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Top trends of 2011: The social network battle [Mitchell]

On 12/08/2011, in social learning / networks, trends, Uncategorized, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Top trends of 2011: The social network battle — from readwriteweb.com by Jon Mitchell

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Cisco lays out aggressive strategies re: cloud computing/business

On 12/07/2011, in cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, emerging technologies, IT in HE, trends, by Daniel Christian

Some items on this:

  • The world of many clouds — from Cisco.com
    Excerpt:
    Cloud – the combination of computing, networking, storage and management – fundamentally changes the way businesses deliver services to improve economics and flexibility. While the notion of “the Cloud” is often thought of as a single entity, in fact, there are many types of clouds: private clouds, public clouds, hybrid clouds, and even interconnected communities of clouds serving different verticals, like government, health care or finance. Indeed, we live and work in a world of many clouds. Cisco’s CloudVerseenables this world of many clouds by delivering:

    • Innovative applications and services designed specifically for the cloud, from security and video to collaboration and infrastructure-as-a-service
    • A unified data center that flexibly shares resources within a data center and across data centers, and
    • A cloud-intelligent network that provides advanced ways to interconnect resources offering a consistent and secure user experience, independent of user location and number of clouds involved.

    Check out this blog to get more details.

  • Cisco beefs up cloud computing push — from WSJ.com by Ben Worthen
    Cisco Systems on Tuesday unveiled what it’s calling a “framework” for building big data centers, letting potential customers know how they can use various Cisco products together–and hopefully leading to more sales of its equipment. The products in the announcement are largely things that Cisco already sells. But now Cisco is laying out a vision for using them to better manage information across data centers. “For a long time we’ve provided individual components,” said Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s chief technology officer, who issued a blog post on the announcement. “What we are doing now is bringing these sets of products together.”

 

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Educational content and learning experiences wirelessly delivered to home TV console [AT&T; TVTextbook]

On 12/07/2011, in 21st century, change, convergence, digital learning, digital textbooks, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, online learning, technologies for your home, tools, trends, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Educational content and learning experiences wirelessly delivered to home TV console — from marketwatch.com

Excerpt:

DALLAS, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Don’t touch that dial. A new variety of interactive educational content for the youngsters in the household is headed to a TV near you.

AT&T* today announced an agreement with TVTextbook to provide mobile broadband connectivity to TVTextbook’s eLearning connected device portfolio. TVTextbook (TVT) delivers high-quality K-12 curriculum that is distributed through a learning console connected to the television. Only TVTextbook leverages basic television-a product found in virtually every U.S. household-to help school districts deliver a digital education to 100% of their students. AT&T’s connectivity will bring a seamless, wireless connection between school and home.

From DSC:
Do I think this will be excellent in 2012? No. Do I think it’s innovative? Yes. Do I think it will be potentially helpful to many? Yes…and so will many apps that are coming to our living rooms in the next 1-3 years.

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Some items re: HTML 5’s history, terminology, and top trends during 2011

On 12/07/2011, in trends, by Daniel Christian

HTML5 history and terminology — by Paul Irish
Adobe, HTML5 Now and Next, Dec 2011

Top 6 trends in HTML5 in 2011 — from readwriteweb.com by Dan Rowinski

Excerpt:

HTML5 is fundamentally changing the way developers approach the Web. Whether it is for desktop browsers or mobile, the language and standards of the future are not some distant point on the horizon. It is right now.

In the mobile realm, the debate rages on: Web or Native? The difference between the two is beginning to blur as HTML5 standards evolve. We examine what happened in HTML5 in this year in our third installment of 2011’s top trends. Check out the rest of the series, starting with John Paul Titlow’s music trends and Alicia Eler’s mobile commerce trends.

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Some futurists look at what might be coming down the pike in 2012

On 12/05/2011, in future, trends, by Daniel Christian

12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead — from Ross Dawson
.12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead

 

Trending in 2012: What’s to come in the year to come? — from Jim Carroll

Excerpt:

My unique job allows me the opportunity to see and hear what a lot of CEO’s and senior executives in a lot of organizations are thinking about. The  nature of my keynotes and small board / leadership meetings allows me to understand what folks are focused on. The research I do, whether for a major manufacturing conference in Las Vegas or a small corporate meeting with an ice cream company allows me to see the key trends that are unfolding right now.

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Eight colliding forces of 2012 [Frey]

On 12/02/2011, in future, trends, by Daniel Christian

Eight colliding forces of 2012 — from FuturistSpeaker.com Thomas Frey

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Engagement-driven narrative design (or How to build discovery and advocacy into your transmedia storytelling) [Pratten ]

On 12/02/2011, in digital storytelling, engagement / engaging students, story, storytelling, transmedia, trends, by Daniel Christian

Engagement-driven narrative design (or How to build discovery and advocacy into your transmedia storytelling)  — from Transmedia Storyteller by Robert Pratten

Engagement-driven Narrative Design
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Count on Apple iTV in 2012, analyst says [Meredith]

On 11/30/2011, in A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, educational games / serious games, elearning, future, game-changing environment, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, online learning, social learning / networks, storytelling, technologies for your home, television, transmedia, trends, by Daniel Christian

Count on Apple iTV in 2012, analyst says — from technewsdaily.com by Leslie Meredith

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Excerpt:

  • The rumors that Apple will launch an actual TV have hit the headlines again following comments made today (Nov. 30) by analyst Gene Munster at an industry conference. Munster went so far as to tell his audience at the Ignition: Future of Media conference in New York City to wait to buy a new TV, because Apple’s TV is “going to be awesome.”

Addendum on 12/2/11: 

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New Cisco Global Cloud Index projects cloud computing traffic to grow 12-fold by 2015

On 11/29/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, future, IT in HE, telecommunications, trends, by Daniel Christian

New Cisco Global Cloud Index projects cloud computing traffic to grow 12-fold by 2015; Cloud to be 51 percent of data center workloads by 2014 

 

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Augumented reality check [Liebhold]

On 11/28/2011, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, Augmented Reality (AR), change, convergence, digital learning, education technology, emerging technologies, geography / geology, mobile learning, mobile technologies, telecommunications, trends, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, by Daniel Christian

Augmented Reality Check - from Michael Liebhold - Nov 2011

 

Excerpt:

A REVOLUTION IN PERCEPTION is in the air, a transformation decades in the making. It will require a radical shift in viewpoint, as the way we experience data and information revolves 90 degrees from our traditional bird’s-eye view of maps, paper and screens to a more natural cinematic vision of the real world, one overlaid with digital information virtually attached to specific places.

And while augmented reality may still be in its infancy – with smartphone viewfinders displaying floating objects that are only vaguely connected to real places – don’t let that fool you.

The changes could reach far beyond mobile broadband and potentially be as profound as the development of the World Wide Web, says Michael Liebhold of the Institute for the Future. Liebhold forecasts that within five to 10 years, “the unadorned world will be history,” and our reality will have become a mix of the real and the digital. Telecom companies need to be ready, he says, to meet the demands of networks in which we are connected right before our eyes.

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Companies lose control of their customers or their markets when…[Leonhard]

On 11/21/2011, in content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, future, game-changing environment, global / globalization, new business models, publishing, reinvent, staying relevant, technology (general), trends, by Daniel Christian

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— excerpted slides from
http://gerdleonhard.typepad.com/files/telemedia-and-content-gerd-leonhard-total-telecom-public.pdf

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