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Mobile Development Panel

Thursday, July 20, 4:30 pm 5:30 pm
Category: Mobile/iTV/PDA

Mobile promises to be the next frontier of the web, but to web developers at first glance it looks to be a nightmare. With hundreds of browsers, devices and a battle in standards, how do you even get started?

In this roundtable discussion with pioneers and experts in mobile design and development, we will openly discuss the challenges of mobile, help get you up to speed with what is taking place in the industry and provide some tips and tricks to help you get started in mobile.
Speakers:
Brian Fling
Kelly Goto
Gavin Lew

Social Metadata and the Relevance Revolution

Consider this:
* Google now uses over 100 pieces of information gleaned from your online behavior to serve you the most personally relevant ads.
* Applications like del.icio.us and Flickr enable a kind of massively multiplayer information architecture – collaborative structuring of data that supports personal, local and global views of the information space.
* And social networking sites promise to increase the relevance of everything from your personal network (Linkedin) to your RSS feeds (Rojo)

Social metadata – information about who we are, who we know, who we trust and what we do – is the fulcrum for new applications that leverage an understanding of your behavior to bring you meaningful content, products and services. It’s the foundation of the collective intelligence systems we see at work in Amazon, Google and eBay.

When Tim O’Reilly says collective intelligence will …