Technology

Social Media and Virtual Communities (old course number 659)

Submitted by dthoma7 on Mon, 2008-04-28 13:28
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This is a course for the students with a strong interest in new technologies and how they may be used to create new business opportunities, particularly new social networking media.

 

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Radical Technology and Radical Innovation

Submitted by dthoma7 on Fri, 2006-07-21 23:41
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"Radical" is a term often used by marteteers to sell products. It usually applies to the technology inerent in the usually new product being sold. It is a successful term to apply in marketing. People go for "radical." Why?

Radical technology offers innovation potential to its buyer/user if they are successful at implementing and using the radicalness.

Emerging Technologies

Submitted by dthoma7 on Wed, 2006-07-12 17:06
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I use this topic to track and process trends and possibilities in new technology. To some degree this topic requires constand vigilance. So, if you are reading this topic and think of additional materials I should link into what is here, please let me know.

I also post specific technology updates under the following topics:

Remote Surveillance and Data Mgmt is a huge issue for health systems

Submitted by dthoma7 on Tue, 2010-03-02 13:51
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In the healthcare space, we are beginning to see huge investments in health information technology from the US Federal government influence the direction of development. Meanwhile, integrated clinical information systems at hospitals in the 1980s found huge challenges integrating data and providing a managerial value to the health providers. Indeed, they were deisgned to help the administrators with their analytics and quarterly reports to CMS or other regulartory bodies.

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The Web is going to get a lot more interesting...

Submitted by dthoma7 on Fri, 2009-12-18 03:31
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The 3D Web will arrive sooner than I expected!  WebGL is making remarkable advances.  The screenshot below shows you a teapot object embedded in a web page.

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For every good idea there are hundreds that fail... woofer.

Submitted by dthoma7 on Mon, 2009-08-31 02:58
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 I do not want to pronounce the immanent failure of a site just as it is getting launched, but I am concerned about the prospects for Woofertime (Woofing rather than Tweeting, get it?).  The idea is that you must write 1400 words to post.  Hmm... looks mighty similar to Tweeter...

WooferTime Front Page

 

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Portable Security and Control on the Horizon

Submitted by dthoma7 on Mon, 2009-05-04 17:57
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touch screen USB deviceWe see interesting devices from time to time that prompt re-thinking the potential of how we behave and what we are able to do.  I saw an interesting USB key fob today that did just that.  It is a small device that will enable a person to carry files along with an identity and interaction method!  What does this mean?

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Drupal Design Favorites

Submitted by dthoma7 on Fri, 2009-04-24 15:01
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This site is maintained using the Drupal content management system, the system that provides the best overall power and activity among Open Source solutions.  In building and updating this site over the past 8 years, I have seen Drupal evolve from a very simple solution into the robust framework for collaboration that it is today.  I am taking this space to list out some of my top code favorites for use with Drupal.

Modules:

  1. Project Vote Smart api
  2. Calais and Calais api
  3. RDF
  4. FCKEditor

Tutorials

  1. Ventura Cottage Squares, Mailhandler and More
  2. Front-page Squares
  3. Introduction to Auto-Tagging (Calais and RDF)
  4. How to add images via Mailhandler using Email
  5. Nice set of tutorials.  I particularly like the jQuery / Media tutorial.

 Themes

  1. Nice packaged themes at Adaptive Themes.
  2. To generate themes from PSD files PSD to CSS is not bad as a jump start.
  3. Or, a better but more expensive way is to use Artisteer.
  4. Or, code one yourself!  http://drupal.org/node/587366

As a general design tip, we should design for a general audience by designing at an 8th grade reading level or below.  Here is a nice discussion of this need for the medical community.

Here is a print out of the $user variable for username: .
stdClass Object ( [uid] => 0 [hostname] => 38.107.191.105 [roles] => Array ( [1] => anonymous user ) [session] => [cache] => 0 )

Integrated communications are becoming more ubiquitous and profitable

Submitted by dthoma7 on Thu, 2009-04-02 14:10
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Recently I have attended a number of symposia hosted by unified communications vendors including Microsoft, Google, and Siemens.  I have been impressed by the level of interest and dedicated effort going toward integrated multi-media solutions.  Presence is getting built in to backbone systems that can deliver/gather presence information from multiple mobile platforms, use geo-location data, translate between text / voice / video, and auto-incorporate organic groups of interest when topics emerge.  These tools will have an extraordinary impact on business in the future.

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Flying Cars...

Submitted by dthoma7 on Thu, 2009-03-19 16:29
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So, how long will it take for flying cars to be commonplace? Will they ever? As of this week, there is a viable flying car that will be on the market for under $200,000 in the near future.

 What implications will this have f

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