exploring opportunities e week talk
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How do you find opportunities? By scanning information being generated globally and tracking trends. In this talk we discuss several ways to find opportunities and how we can use emerging technology trends.TRANSCRIPT
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Exploring Opportunitiesin
Emerging Tech
Dorai ThodlaiMorph, Inc., USA/India
Twitter: [email protected]
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Your Opportunity Space?
Your Opportunity
Space
Your Opportunity
Space
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Where Do Opportunities Come From?
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Challenges – Pick One
• Poverty and Quality of Life• Illiteracy• Education (Current Model Not Scalable)• Health• Environment• Ignorance• ….
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From the Millennium Project – The World Future in Next 25 Years
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Disruptions
• Make things better, faster, cheaper, different• What iPod and iTunes did to music• What Netflix did to movie rentals• What Google is doing to apps, search,
advertisement• To cause disruption you have to think different
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Gaps
• Gaps in products, services • Find gaps and bridge them• Some examples:
– Job Readiness Training– Computer Literacy for Senior Citizens– Learning Using Mobile
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Applications of Technology
• Leverage Technology• Eliminate the Middle Man• Make something simpler• Lower cost • Higher Leverage (fisherman story)
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Trends – A High Level View
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A Few Tech Trends
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Mobile Computing Trends
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Emerging Technology Trends
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A Few Trends to Explore
Literacy Through Entertainment Play To Learn Organic User Interfaces Adaptive User Interfaces Web2.0 Semantic Web Data Web Wiki Mining Web Mining Blogging/Micro blogging
Tagging and Micro formats Multi Core Parallel ProgrammingScripting Languages Cloud Computing Virtualization Laptops For
Children Wiki Trends Wikis as Knowledge Bases Enterprise Social Networks Enterprise Mash-ups Sensor Networks
Multi Agent Systems Interaction Design Speech Interfaces Software Agents Knowledge Management, Intelligent Databases Complex Event Processing Stream Computing
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A Few More
Virtual Worlds Multi Touch Smart Boards Web Frame worksOpen Mobile Platforms Continuous Partial AttentionGenerationY Tools eBook Readers Ubiquitous ConnectivityOn Demand Computing Peer Nets Rich Internet ApplicationsWeb Feeds Semantic Wikis FreeBase DbPedia Collaborative
Search Contextual Search Semantic Search AIML
Information Visualization Text Analytics Web 3.0
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Job Trends - Absolute
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Job Trends - Relative
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Job Trends Relative
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Programming Language Trends
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Validating Trends
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Validating Trends
Find the Connections – Follow the Money• Investment Trends
– Ex: Intel Investments http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080603corp.htm
• Job Trends– http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends.jsp– http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?cat=wiki
• Programming Language Trends– http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
• Search Trends – What are people searching for– Google Trends
• Book Trends, Social Bookmarks, Blogs, Micro blogs, Tag Clouds, Conversation Networks
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Trend Spotting - Resources
• Google Alerts, Yahoo Alerts and TopicMinder• A service to receive alerts based on certain keywords
• Yahoo Pipes, Popfly - RSS aggregation, filtering, search• Digg, del.icio.us, Techmeme, reddit or any of your favorite social
bookmarking service• Technorati or Google Blog Search tools• Tag Clouds (many of the services mentioned above provide tag clouds that
tell you the more popular trends) or you can create your own tag clouds.• Google Trends - A product from Google that allows you to see trends
based on searches• A set of high level Text Mining and Tech mining tools ( a subject that
deserves almost a talk of its own)• Custom Trend Tracking and Visualization tools• iMorph Tools – InfoPortal, InfoMinder, InfoStreams, InfoTools
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Resources• My Blogs - http://www.thodla.com• Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
– http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
• NewsMap (HeatMap)– http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/
• Wiki Mind Map– http://dorai.wordpress.com/?s=wiki+mindmap
• Google Trends• Job Trends – www.indeed.com• Programming Language Trends - http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm