These are the slides that accompanied my presentation at WDC 2008 (held at the Watershed, Bristol). I tried to cover as many platforms as possible to give the students a taste for where web technologies can be used effectively beyond the browser.

5. Why do we care?!

6. Desktop.

7. Last.fm

8. Ambient media and
attention tracking.

9. Data == Revenue.

10. How do we build for the
desktop?

11. Adobe Air

12. Rapid development using
familiar technologies.

13. Tweetdeck

14. PHP GTK

15. Roadsend

16. Mobile.

17. iPhone

18. Android

19. Mobile devices used in a
locative context.

20. Fire Eagle

21. Bright Kite

22. Whatever came before...

23. SMS and MMS still have
their place.

24. Twitter

25. The Big Picture

26. Pingdom

27. Users can create &
consume media anywhere.

28. BBC iPlayer for iPhone

29. Eee PC

30. The living room.

31. Nintendo Wii

32. BBC iPlayer for the Wii

33. Apple TV

34. Machines.

35. Feeds.

36. TED.com

37. API’s.

38. Twitter vs. Pownce

39. Google, Yahoo, etc.

40. SocNets.

41. Widgets.

42. The web in the real
world.

43. Ubiquitous Computing..

44. The Cloud.

45. Pervasive Media.

46. They all mean much the
same thing.

47. “Bluetooth Spacial
Awareness”.

48. Input mechanisms.

49. Touch screen

50. RFID

51. Monome

52. Tangible/Graspable Media

53. Durell Bishop’s Marble Answering Machine

54. What’s happening locally?
‣ Tarim’s vibration sensors at the Pervasive Media
Studio.
‣ HappyPackages by ThoughtDen.
‣ HP Media Labs and Cityware are doing interesting
things using wireless technologies to build
attention data.

55. Flickr Credits
‣ iPhone photo: rickyromero
‣ Android photo: joshrussell
‣ Crusty old phones photo: bensonchivers
‣ Eee PC photo: extraketchup
‣ iPhone iPlayer: benjaminwatt
‣ Wii Logo: imuttoo
‣ Apple TV: somewhereinak
‣ Touchscreen: digitalsadhu
‣ Monome: owesen