Smell, feel, and taste things in TV

Imagine for a moment, TV, movies, and computer games in which you could smell, taste, and feel things.

Sony is patenting a new innovation – a device for transmitting SENSORY DATA directly into the human brains. This is a fundamental new patent for which Sony will do wireless broadband entertainment directly to your brain. This is a real today.

Basically, Sony device will fire pulses of ultrasound waves at the viewers head to modify firing patterns in targeted parts of the brain, thus creating ‘SENSORY EXPERIENCES’ ranging from tastes, moving objects and sounds. This could even benefit blind or deaf people to see or hear as well.

This idea can then perhaps extend to Internet web pages. Imagine tasting a pizza before ordering it, all online, real-time basis.

Do you want to be part of such innovation?

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What role you can play in this?

You are a CEO of a company. Meeba is your personal digital agent.

At a board meeting, Meeba transmits an video email at your mobile phone via ‘GlobalEye’ Network about one of your managers illicitly making deposits at a bank into a secret account. Meeba contacted the ‘GlobalTransaction’ network and help to check the incoming money source, and found that it is from your company. Meeba request ‘BankoNet’, an online Bank datagrid to stop the account and reports the incident to the GlobalPolice – all in real-time.

See what role you can play in the above, perhaps, extends this:

”Meeba then make a video message to your Manager’s wife saying ‘He will be coming quite late…”

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Future TOP Paid Skills

The current aspect of the workforce which is modeled on physical location, on the job training, dashboard performance etc, will change dramatically due to the increasing changing trends in innovation technologies. In future, we will see people working 100% from their home, with access to all the things required to do the job. In fact, this is already happened.

In near future, we will see highly paid personnel, companies or skillsets in the following visible areas:

- Neuro-Medical Technicians
- Personal Security Technicians (Certified Online Police Officers)
- Quantum Scientists
- Health enhancements specialists.
- Global Headhunters.
- Robotics Therapist
- Space Holidays planners
- Climate forecasters
- Alternative energy developers
- Holographic knowledge enablers
- Surveillance Officer
- Knowledge Advisors.
- Online, On-demand Virtual Assistant.

The ability or inability of a workforce will alter the competitive landscape of global business. Those who see this coming today, who are investing in future-readiness, will establish a competitive advantage.

Well, they say ‘Always LOOK for the SIGNS….’

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Headlines 2014 – Oil hits $300 per barrel

Energy is our one of the prime source of a world economy. However, it is not going to last long. There are some fundamental rules that one needs to accept now.

- The era for the cheap oil is over.
- Alternative energy source is not ready to meet global supply and demands
- There is an urgency to invest in alternative energy sources.
- One needs to learn on how to conserve energy.
- There is a tremendous global opportunities in energy markets.

In addition in very near future, you will see:

- Global demands for energy will increase 30%.
- Energy will become a leading and national security issue
- Breakthrough in hydrogen and renewable energy will provide alternative energy sources.

Why I am telling you all this, because, if you have niche in that area, or if you can help the companies to gather data for research or perhaps build a service or application in that area, you will benefit from it a lot more.

A global alternative energy sources MAP might be a good start….

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The Next Generation Innovations

Innovations are the results of collective approach to solve a problem, or improve from a problem, a new way of looking ahead on something. It’s the IDEA that turns into capital, markets, talent and growth.

The years which are ahead of us, will surely bring some of the amazing aspects of what we look at life. Those who do an early adoption, anticipation will surely benefits from it because it will change the nature of markets, customers, work, money, and most importantly YOURSELF.

Based on the collective information available and the trends analyzation, I see the following innovations in near future which will change the whole game.

Next Train – To Mars

Earth no longer the only place known to us, we will see commercial flights available to go from Earth to other planets. Not only that, you may see ‘DHLAnyWhere’ to deliver your package from earth to around the planet.

Please wait..Downloading your Drugs

In the near future, you will see companies offering medicine and drugs to be able to download from a medium perhaps Internet or others. Yes, I mean ‘download here’.

Building new materials via Atoms

Research already undergoing to see what we can accomplished from the simple form of atom structure and to convert them to bring new substance. NASA already build a material to be used in building constructions which can sustained hard environments like strong winds, fire, water etc. Infact, we have machines which can build homes layer by layers based on your own design.

Meet my Robot

HONDA and the similar companies are already building special purpose robots which will help humans and will carry out the task on their behalf completely. IN year 2015, we will see a new group of companies which will emerged and provide commercial version of Robots.

5 Billion People doing Internet commerce

Buying/Selling from Internet would be the common task of people. You will have special “Passports” to help you to shopping and much more.

DNA for Sale

There seems to be a huge research going on to track and crack the DNA, which has result in bringing new avenues both from the innovative and commercial point of views. In near future, you will see specialized DNA for sale online. Would you offer this on your store?
Cybernetic medicines

There will be niche companies who will provide cybernetic health enhancements medicine/solutions for humans and perhaps robots too. We will see revolutions in molecular manufacturing known as “nanotech”.

The innovation that are underway and are about to be deliver will inject a new fusion of technology, economics, global wealth opportunities, and power.

One has to start thinking as a new synthesized idea, product, service or process that has to act as an acceleration of competitive advantages of tomorrow’s world.

Are you one of them?

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Web 3.0 - The META Tags

Across time, the Internet had evolved as companies, individual are pushing the limits more and more. This transformation is going on as;

80’s	Email	Sending/Receiving
90’s	Web Browserl	Searching
00’s	The APPs	Publish/Subscribe Models, What’s your Feed?

The driving factos which are re-shaping the Internet to a complete new levels are worth mentioning. What I though was to create a quick META tags cloud for technologies/trends/oppourtunities to watch for in Web 3.0. They are

 

Review the TAGs, study them, look for the oppourtunities and START’s EARLY.

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Web 3.0 - The Oppourtunities

The current web consists of HTML pages, documents, images etc. This is the “web for humans”. Web 3.0 present “Web for the machines”, where by we introduce Understanding of data to machines by embedding the RDF or microformat TAGS to an existing HTML.

Take a look at http://rdfa.info for detail information on RDF, and how it is changing the way Internet will evolve.

For now, I would like to discuss the opportunities exist now in Web 3.0 World.

RDF Converter/Interpreters:

There are few programs which can interpret RDF embedded codes from an existing HTML pages. If you can build a good Integrator and a converter which converts existing HTML pages to RDF-Enabled machine readable pages, you are looking at a serious money.

Non-HTML to RDF

Applications like Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, Microsoft Silverlight are making headways to embed RDF and build machine-readable applications. However, if you build an application/services/Web Services which can take e..g FLAH movie and present its data in RDF format, this will be a major move.

RDF NameSpace

At the moment, we only have a handful of NameSpace that we can used with RDF. If you can produce namespace for RDF, it will be very beneficial.

Above are some of the opportunities that are available within this current frame work of time. Web 3.0 is changing very rapidly and will present more and more hidden gems to those who ACT NOW.

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Web 3.0 - What’s coming!

Web 3.0 is a term used to describe the future of the World Wide Web. Following the introduction of the phrase “Web 2.0″ as a description of the recent evolution of the Web, many technologists, journalists, and industry leaders have used the term “Web 3.0″ to hypothesize about a future wave of Internet innovation.

Following are some of the key development anticipated in Web 3.0:

API Providers
These are the raw hosted services that have powered Web 2.0 and will become the engines of Web 3.0 — Google’s search and AdWords APIs, Amazon’s affiliate APIs, Lulu’s API etc. a seemingly infinite ocean of RSS feeds, a multitude of functional services. More and more companies will start offering thier service, data, connectivity via thier own APIs.

API Integrators
These are the intermediaries that take some of the hassle out of locating all those raw API services by bundling them together in useful ways. Obvious examples today are the various RSS aggregators, and emerging web services marketplaces like the StrikeIron service.

Web 3.0 Applications
These will not be like the established application categories we are used today, such as CRM, ERP or office, but a new class of composite applications that bring together functionality from multiple services to help users achieve their objectives in a flexible, intuitive and self-evident way.

In nutshell, Web 3.0 will provide;

A new generation of services-based, composite applications that are tailored to fit the work processes that people actually need.

Transforming the Web into a ‘Database’

The first step towards a “Web 3.0″ is the emergence of “The Data Web” as structured data records are published to the Web in reusable and remotely queryable formats, such as XML, RDF, ICDL and microformats. SPARQL technology provides a standardized query language and API for searching across distributed RDF databases on the Web. The Data Web enables a new level of data integration and application interoperability, making data as openly accessible and linkable as Web pages. The Data Web is the first step on the path towards the full Semantic Web.

An evolutionary path to artificial intelligence

Web 3.0 has also been used to describe an evolutionary path for the Web that leads to artificial intelligence that can reason about the Web in a quasi-human fashion. IBM and Google are implementing new technologies that are yielding surprising information such as making predictions of hit songs from mining information on college music Web sites. collaborative filtering services like del.icio.us, Flickr and Digg that extract meaning and order from the existing Web and how people interact with it. Can you build a similar one.

3D Web

Another possible path for Web 3.0 is towards the 3 dimensional vision championed by the Web3D Consortium. This would involve the Web transforming into a series of 3D spaces, taking the concept realised by ‘Second Life’ further. This could open up new ways to connect and collaborate using 3D shared spaces.

Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. Humans are capable of using the Web to carry out tasks such as finding the Finnish word for “cat”, reserving a library book, and searching for a low price on a DVD. However, a computer cannot accomplish the same tasks without human direction because web pages are designed to be read by people, not machines. The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing and combining information on the web.

Currently, the World Wide Web is based mainly on documents written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), a markup convention that is used for coding a body of text interspersed with multimedia objects such as images and interactive forms. Metadata tags, for example

<meta name=”keywords” content=”computing, computer studies, computer”>
<meta name=”description” content=”Cheap widgets for sale”>
<meta name=”author” content=”Hack’s Hardware”>

provide a method by which computers can categorise the content of web pages.

The semantic web takes the concept further; it involves publishing the data in a language, Resource Description Framework (RDF), specifically for data, so that it can be categorized as human perception and be “understood” by computers. So all data is not only stored, but filed and well handled.

HTML describes documents and the links between them. RDF, by contrast, describes arbitrary things such as people, meetings, or airplane parts.

Some believe that emerging technologies such as the Semantic Web will transform the way the Web is used, and lead to new possibilities in artificial intelligence.

Web 2.0 exist today and had already shift the presentation of data on internet. Web 3.0 will not only make a hugh diffrence, but will change the whole methodology all togehter.

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Web in 2008

The world of internet is keep changing and more and more exciting things are coming online. Here is a quick list of items that might shape the Web in 2008 and beyond.

- We will witnessed the very first version of “WebOS”. Along the same line, we will also see “FinOS” – Financial Operating System.

- Open Standards will be acquired by more leading companies.

- The online advertising market will consolidate. CPC (Cost per Action) will continue to dominate. Will be experiments in VRM with target Ads.

- Online Video will become the de-facto unit of online world. People will say “Show me your VideoID?”.

- Software as a Service will be the major push in 2008. More and more company will come and provide platforms for that.

- Asia will lead with one big innovation on Internet.

- We will witnessed a breakthrough in terms of presentation of text, data, video on Internet via tools like Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight etc.

- Mobile-enabled application will emerged more and more.

- Amazon, eBay, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft will continue to acquire “talent” from buying more smaller companies.

- NewsCorp will bring advanced news search engine to the market. There will be innovation in paper-based industry. News, magazine, books and more. Perhaps a full “Digital Book”.

- Leading companies will open Application Development Platform APIs ( like facebook, google, yahoo), for expanding their network with user-generated data. More Widgetization.

- Google will announce its practical strategy on “How they plan to organize WWW”.

- We will witnessed New Search Engines providers with better input/output interface then existing ones.

So little time, so much to learn..

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Trends: In, Out, Yet to come

Intenet trends are like waves, they go up and down all the time. Below is a quick summary of some of the trends that are IN the market, OUT of the market, or YET TO COME in the market.

Items	IN	OUT	YET  TO COME	Comment
Affiliate programs	x			People continue to make used of them and still makes  money.
Blogs	x			Much has been blogged about weblogs. It’s too early to  know if blogging just a fad or another emerging media that will one day rival  other forms of media.
Next MeBlog			x	A single grid collaborative platform, where it contains s  your diary, your thought, opinion, your digital identity Page.
Content syndication	x			Tools like Ajax, php, small javascripts, an RSS feed can  bring fresh content to your visitors daily.
Contextual Ads	x			Google is envied for pioneering an innovative form of  advertising called “AdSense.”
Counters		x		Counters were used on old days, no webmasters check stats  using free tools, sophisticated programs.
CSS	x			Websites developed with cascading style sheets should  download faster. Web 2.0 is heavily depends on CSS.
One Page Websites	x			They still work, but may not be for long, users want more  information.
eBay	x			eBay is going strong.
The letter “E”		x		All possible domains names starting with letter “E” are  already registered. Use two-word domain name registration technique.
Flash	x			Adobe Flash is coming up with more exciting platforms like  Flash. These are the tools which will push the web interface to net level. See  Adobe AIR.
Free eBooks		x		Offer free eBook, and you get email address. Its old now,  try to innovate. If giving eBook, make sure it contains good practical info. Perhaps  replace this with free Programs (Ajax scripts, Web 2.0 templates etc.)
The phrase, “Free Download”		x		Shareware marketers use the phrase to get potential  customers to download their shareware, which is not free. Are you still using  Click to signup and download this free ****?
Next Search Engines			x	They will bring human-sensitive searches, real-time  output, ability to export, do Statistics on results. Turn text to Graph,  extract data only etc.
Java applets		x		It is replacing by Ajax, Web 2.0, and other technologies. But  still act as not bad solution.
Keywords meta tag		x		Most of the search engines are not heavily depends on meta  data anymore, they are using more sophisticated tools, as marketer are trying  to get smarter with search engines.
PHP/MySQL	x			With a few scripts, a database, and a dollar a month web  host, you’ll rule the WWW.
Pop-up ads		x		It is now a “make-your visitors-hate-you-tool.”
Long Sales Letter		x		Please who have the time to read one page sales letter  with full of text, testimonial, images, hot offers (take at least 5 min. to  read). Replace this with audio, video tools. Get an upgrade.
Spam filters	x			The name says everything.
Standalone client app vs. browser based pplications		x		“Have you got the latest version?”  “I don’t know.”  “Where do I check?”  “Go to Help, About.”Rich Internet Application will bring so much challenges and opportunities to  all of us.
Text and text links	x			Give the search engines what they want.
Wireless enabled sites	x			3G is coming. Perhaps 4G will be internet-enabled.
XML	x			Browsers are on their way to fully supporting the X  technologies.
“Welcome to” title on main  page		x		Sayonara

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