The document discusses the rise of mobile devices and their potential for museums. It notes that over half the global population now owns a mobile phone and smartphones are increasingly popular. The document outlines several options for museums to engage mobile audiences, including adapting existing websites, developing separate mobile sites or apps, or creating mobile web apps. It argues that mobile offers opportunities to provide contextual, ubiquitous experiences and engage visitors both on-site and off-site.
The Rise of the Machines: Understanding How Data Accelerates AIVolker Hirsch
These are my slides to a keynote I gave at the annual conference of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) in Noordwijk, Netherlands on 15 September 2017. They look at how data (and the increase of data sources we create) helps accelerate the power of AI.
They didn't shoot video but the audio is here: https://www.alpsp.org/write/MediaUploads/Conference/1709AIC/Audio/Plenary_5_-_Volker_Hirsch.mp3
Layering Mobile Onto Your Online ExperienceDay Software
You have less than 7 seconds to make an impression and the Web is no longer limited to merely your browser. With the advent of smartphones and tablet devices, you need to engage your audience at anywhere, at anytime. How do you create a consistent and easy-to-use online presence across the web and mobile? Find out how CQ5 lets you do this easily from one fun-to-use interface.
Cedric Huesler, Product Marketing Director, Day Software
The Rise of the Machines: Understanding How Data Accelerates AIVolker Hirsch
These are my slides to a keynote I gave at the annual conference of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) in Noordwijk, Netherlands on 15 September 2017. They look at how data (and the increase of data sources we create) helps accelerate the power of AI.
They didn't shoot video but the audio is here: https://www.alpsp.org/write/MediaUploads/Conference/1709AIC/Audio/Plenary_5_-_Volker_Hirsch.mp3
Layering Mobile Onto Your Online ExperienceDay Software
You have less than 7 seconds to make an impression and the Web is no longer limited to merely your browser. With the advent of smartphones and tablet devices, you need to engage your audience at anywhere, at anytime. How do you create a consistent and easy-to-use online presence across the web and mobile? Find out how CQ5 lets you do this easily from one fun-to-use interface.
Cedric Huesler, Product Marketing Director, Day Software
Top 10 Things Steve Ballmer tells his Closest Friends about Microsoft’s Share...Mark Fidelman
We've have it on great authority; from a friend of a friend who knows someone who might be a close friend of Ballmer (we think Steve Ballmer) that the following is what he tells them.
Top 10 Things Steve Ballmer tells his Closest Friends about Microsoft’s Share...Mark Fidelman
We've have it on great authority; from a friend of a friend who knows someone who might be a close friend of Ballmer (we think Steve Ballmer) that the following is what he tells them.
Self-driving cars, drones, household robots, smart devices etc.. A perfect storm is emerging. But what will the next hype be called? Smart Machines is a strong contestant for the next hype. In 2004 it was Social Media, in 2007 Cloud Computing was coined and in 2011 everybody started talking and writing about Big Data. Four years have passed and year 2015 calls for the next hype building on top of existing ones. Enter Smart Machines.
What will education and teaching look like in the future. Emerging technologies, changing pedagogies, new literacies and digital learners. This presentation is produced for teachers and trainers.
Looking to the Future of Educational TechnologyKelgator
Technology is a constantly changing playing field. It is difficult but also essential that we keep up with these changes to ensure that our students are provided with both current and relevant educational experiences. In this session we will examine a variety of current and emerging technologies and web developments and how they are likely to impact on the future of education.
The "free" in freelance is what we all love about it, but it's also the creator of the biggest challenge: the equation that governs our self-employed lives is most often "do more work, get more money". The discipline required to work is eclipsed by the discipline required to not work.
This talk looks at self-working from a holistic perspective: Mike will look at some of the tools and techniques that are useful in helping freelancers balance their working lives, get on top of scheduling, build the confidence to say no - and ultimately find time to do things other than work.
A presentation I did with @lgladdy back in June 2012 for BathCamp (http://bathcamp.org/events/cms-smackdown).
Before you start commenting like a crazy-assed loon, please remember the title is entirely designed to provoke. Like anything else in this entire universe, I'm long enough in the tooth to know this: "IT DEPENDS".
So: No. I don't think Wordpress shits on all CMS's in every situation*
Peace, out
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* Just most of them **
** kidding
Stop the noise - ten digital marketing tipsMike Ellis
Little time and no budget? Here's ten easy win tips to help you get the most out of social media and digital marketing. It's especially pitched at arts organisations and other non-profits, but it'll be useful whoever you are...
If you love your content, set it free (v3.0) Mike Ellis
This talk is a re-working of previous talks with the same name. This time it focuses on three big ideas which hang off notions of “free” and "open":
- what value and free mean in the networked world we’ve found ourselves in
- how this network has also changed us, as consumers and producers of content
- how we, as content-rich institutions, might respond to these changes
Niche or Platform - what next for our institutions online?Mike Ellis
This presentation looks at the ideas behind institutions delivering a "trusted platform" rather than niche silos. It suggests that "platforms" in this context are places where communities are enabled, supported and encouraged and goes on to consider ten big ideas which often accompany platform-like approaches.
This is a museumy version of my Ignite Cardiff presentation - I presented it at UKMW09.
The basic premise is that I believe we're approaching a kind of "perfect storm" for mobile and ubiquitous computing: the dream has been around for a long time but now we're seeing network speed increasing, cost dropping, device capability improving. Now could be the time for cultural heritage to really embrace mobile...
For the final Bathcamp meetup of 2009, we put together a quiz. We (loosely..) took the topics of the evening meetups from 2009 and then threw in a few more tech questions. Have a go - the answers are in the notes for each slide
The Benefits Of Doing Things DifferentlyMike Ellis
During October and November 2009, Mike Ellis (Eduserv) and Dan Zambonini (Box UK) built a museum website in 12 hours from beginning to end, under the title "Museum In A Day".
These slides accompany a workshop we delivered at DISH 2009 with the same title (see http://www.dish2009.nl/node/89)
The workshop uses the Museum In A Day project as a means to frame the wider conversation, and looks at where online museums are in terms of audience, traffic and reach, asking:
- How can we do things differently?
- How can we do more with less?
- How can we be where our audiences are?
For an overview of the Museum In A Day project, see http://museuminaday.com/
Mike Ellis and Lisa Price demonstrate practical examples of high impact, low-budget web 2.0 techniques that organisations can use to transform the way they work.
Slides from the "Developer Lounge" session at the 2009 Institutional Web Managers Workshop, all about developers getting together and chewing the e-cud.
For the BathCamp evening event on 21st July 2009 (http://bathcamp.ning.com/events/bathcamponified-3-minutes-one), we asked people to present on "the one technology which has blown you away more than any other".
Rather than choose Spotify, the iPhone or Gmail, I instead picked the piano as my technology: something I've enjoyed playing for (ouch) more than 30 years.
Here, in slides which I tried to present in less than 3 minutes, are some of the reasons why.
The notion of allowing access to your website content and data via API's and other machine readable means is well embedded in geek circles.
This presentation aims to look at the non-technical reasons why these approaches are a good idea, arguing that it is time for Machine Readable Data (MRD) approaches to be better communicated to content owners, budget holders and other non-technical stakeholders.
Everyware - "the future is already here, it's just not well distributed yet"Mike Ellis
In this Ignite presentation, I examine the notion of "everyware" - the merging and flowing of data and content between virtual and real spaces and the layering of virtual content onto the real world. Although this isn't hugely new, I argue that the growing convergence between device ubiquity, network speed, lowering cost, user familiarity, accurate LBS, geo-lo'd services and higher computing power points to a horizon where everyware is becoming a reality at last
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
When stars align: studies in data quality, knowledge graphs, and machine lear...
Mobile: the next frontier
1. mobile the next frontier mike ellis // museumnext // 30 th April 2010
2. I am Mike Ellis I have spent about ten years on the web I am a generalist, strategist, social(web)ist I work for a not for profit IT company called Eduserv my mum
3. L = ((friday + end of day) x overload) 1 _______________________________
10. “ Our preliminary approach: Activate the world. Provide hundreds of wireless computing devices per person per office, of all scales” Xerox PARC, 1996 http://sandbox.xerox.com/ubicomp why now?
11. ..only now (14 years later) are we finally beginning to see a convergence of various factors… yes, but..
20. “ The speed and scale of the world's love affair with mobile phones was revealed yesterday in a UN report that showed more than half the global population now pay to use one.” The Guardian, 3 rd March 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/03/mobile-phones1
28. desktop mobile 30 minutes 30 seconds Planned Unplanned Sit forward Sit back Time No time Creating Consuming Focus Multitask Source: Tomi Ahonen book Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media, 2008 use case differences
38. 3b. Build an app (without building an app) Build apps with existing skills: - Titanium Appcelerator - PhoneGap - Adobe CS5 - Next generation of Adobe AIR ?
50. Next frontier http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangstaudt/2242685012/ iphone http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamhook/2830319467/ convergence http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigberto/4045789444/ hands http://www.flickr.com/photos/gi/2879088619/ kid on phone http://www.flickr.com/photos/derekolson/2426200855/ network http://www.flickr.com/photos/cushinglibrary/3877849907/ wc http://www.flickr.com/photos/cijmyjune/163533194/ you are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/angermann/164830577/ photo op http://www.flickr.com/photos/dantaylor/43983289/ charts http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanmac87/4415951740/ half the world http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/440672445/ minifigs http://www.flickr.com/photos/levork/2250190008/ road ahead http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackcustard/425248582/ remember http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/3637831773/ crow http://www.flickr.com/photos/peasap/1303101703/ stool http://www.flickr.com/photos/evilerin/3331451077/ letter http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/286644213/ thanks to flickr people
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Editor's Notes
It’s Friday, it’s the end of the day, it’s nearly a bank holiday… … L = likelihood that this talk might be any good
… on the plus side…
...first, a wholly scientific method I’ve perfected over many years to help understand my audience better: the “geek snigger test”
This talk is mainly non-technical. If you find this slide funny, you are probably going to be disappointed...
… if you find this one funny you’ll probably be ok
(if you don’t find this funny, you’re probably asleep. Or lacking a sense of humour…)
Here are the main areas I’ll be touching on today. It’s a bit of a whistlestop tour, and if there’s one thing I’ve discovered when talking about mobile it is that there are no answers, just more questions…
This was said back in 1996 – actually it was about the “internet of things” or ubiquitous computing, but applies equally well to mobile too
Some 14 years later, we are finally seeing a critical convergence – a kind of perfect storm – which will finally (probably) make the mobile dream a reality
These are the factors. Let’s have a look at them in a bit more detail...
First off, “devices”. - we all have “a device”. In the UK, 120% of people have a mobile phone.. - 1.15bn new handsets last year (of which 90% have colour web browser) - cheap, small, replaceable – and have a short lifetime which means the technology cycle moves on quickly: not many people have old mobiles for long - 1.2bn “mobile web” users (more stats later...)
Networks: - GPRS, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA…4G - WIFI and (possibly) WIMAX - cheaper, faster - more available (when was the last time you saw one of those telco “coverage maps” for the uk…?
Content - the “chicken and egg” of new tech: finally we’re moving out of the cycle where no content is created because the platform is young - vast swathes of stuff are now available via API’s, i.e. “on any device” example: 100 million CC’d images on Flickr, many of which are geo-coded … and as the above graph shows, the best camera really is the one you have with you…
Services: - finally, real-time access to things like mapping services and GPS - also, realistic access times across ubiquitous networks: devices are quick to find location or use mapping. This is trending to invisible technology - availability of these services is high, and they are usually free or cheap
Location is big… - cell(+) location / GPS / WIFI / locative - mobile OS starting to be location aware (but bear in mind that location can be manually entered, too – more later) - many geocoding services available - ..and millions of geocoded resources..
Awareness, marketing, “the big sell”: probably more important than anything else - marketing leading to demand, leading to services, leading to demand…an “awareness cycle” buy a mobile, get sold the mobile internet on any billboard, you’ll see ads about (Flickr, Facebook, Twitter etc) “on the go”
Wayhey! Time for some graphs... :-)
In comparison, it is estimated that around 23% of people used the net in 2008, worldwide It is estimated that more than 90% of the global population now have access in terms of signal... As I said earlier, 120% of the UK has a mobile phone: there are 72 million subscriptions or active SIMs
Smartphone sales continue to dominate in Europe It’ll be a while before the older machines have been replaced, but not long - a matter of maybe a year or so
- People aren’t very suprised about iPhone (this includes iPod Touch too..) - Blackberry often raises an eyebrow. This isnt just corporate markets (who like it because of enterprise tools and the fact it can be locked down) but teens, too. Mostly this is because of the Blackberry messaging applications...
- This isn’t the best of slides to look at at a distance but it hopefully gives some idea of the various differences between nations. - It also shows quite clearly the effects of poverty on purchasing habits..
This site suggests 2.18% of browsing is from mobile. Other stats suggest different figures: Netmarketshare say around 1.70% ( http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=61&sample=13 ) or even up to 5-10% These are small. But remember that these stats are for *browsing* and don’t include apps, and this is of *total browsing market* and growing...
The markets themselves look like this - and growing at exponential rates iPhone (and Touch) are currently leading, but many experts predict that Android is going to dominate. We’ll leave that argument for the time being…
It’s tricky talking about options because there are so many, and actually they aren’t comparable - it’s a bit like saying “here are your options for the web” - it is entirely dependent on context and what you want to achieve... At the same time, there are some common patterns...
- Before we do this, we need to take a step back and ask: Why mobile rather than another platform? - These are the unique traits of mobile: the important ones I think from a content perspective are: ....intimacy of the device (67% of people sleep with their mobile phone....) [Tomi Ahonen] ...the ubiquitousness (provided you take capability into account...more later) ...the contextual and parallel nature of the experience. You typically “do mobile” at the same time as “doing something else”
- Mobile experiences differ from desktop experiences in many ways. - Here are some of them. Mobile is often about rapid, contextual, unplanned interfacing with content
This is so far from being a complete list, but in experience terms, here are some common areas in which cultural heritage visitors might be using mobile devices
As an institution, how do you “do” mobile? Well...it depends on what the “it” is... but here are some (non-exclusive, non-exhaustive) options…
#1: Adapt existing This means providing a special way of rendering your site - a CSS file usually - which gives a mobile optimised view You can “sniff” for whether a browser is mobile or not and provide this view automatically. Pros: cheap; no additional content maintenence effort Cons: the content is probably not what users want; doesn’t use phone capabaility or consider the actual experience of ‘being mobile’ Increasingly, people question whether - with the rise of smart phones - you need to do this at all. I’d still say yes, probably - sites are big and slow and full of media and experiences that are irrelevant to mobile users
#2: Build new Build your own separate site, use the same browser sniff when people arrive (but don’t forget to link to the “main” site, too....boo to the BBC!) You can use someone like mofuse.com, ubik.com, icetip (there are many of these offerings - shop around..) which let you build a site for cheap or free Pros: easy; more focussed to mobile visitors; can segment to fit mobile capabilities (visit, what’s on, map, telephone number), do it in Wordpress! Cons: can be harder from a maintenance POV, although if you have an API or feeds you can grab stuff live from the normal site; probably more expensive to bui
This is what you get when you go to the PH museum site on an iphone - an automatic redirect to a cut down version of the site. They have another non-iphone mobile friendly one, too. I’d say #1 and #2 - which are essentially about how you deal with incoming visitors from mobile - are becoming a must for any institution, especially given it isn’t hard or expensive to do. The hardest thing in this scenario is the information architecture, and being focussed on what you provide
#3: Build an app If you want a more focused experience - one that is about collections, gaming, a specific exhibition.. you can choose to build an app. Pros: best use of platform and capability (location, vibration, compass, etc); focused marketing; maybe even income! Cons: expensive (although see next slides..) - minimum ~£10k; complicated; and you have to choose your platform: apps are NOT CROSS PLATFORM! But…you can choose to build an app as part of a partnership to reduce costs. Revenue shares are common…
Here’s Brooklyn Museums iPhone app. It covers collections, and essential visitor stuff. Brooklyn also have a web mobile site...and some other stuff which I’ll talk about later
Another example from the National Gallery. Well worth following the link on the slide – it’s a great case study of a museum’s experiences building an app - Probably native iPhone development, and done with a partnership deal to minimise costs / maximise benefits - They took the decision to use existing content as much as possible, also stuff that isn’t IP restricted
Here is Launchball, which started off as a Flash-based game and is now an iPhone app
#3b: Build an app without building an app These tools are compelling - they let you build in xhtml/css/javascript and they then convert to iPhone / Android BUT – this is not the same as a native app, will still cost you (some) money, and is at the whims of Apple...! There are other alternatives, for example http://isites.us which has a different model ($299 p/a) - but not as full featured... See also http://www.motherapp.com which is what the Museum Marketing app is built using
#4. Build a mobile web app Building apps for the browser is starting to be a possibility, and will only get better... Apps can be bookmarks! Pros: use existing skills; use existing content; potentially cross platform (see also building CSS for your existing site...) Cons: only limited use of device capability (location is ok in HTML5, but orientation, accelerometer not accessible); speed is a giveaway, at least for now..
nextstop.com decided to build a web app rather than an “actual” app. The link is to a video where they explain why they did this You’ll see if you go to http://nextstop.com how this works. It looks like a native app, and tries to feel like one, but it is slow, which is the giveaway
#5: Don’t forget the basics…! SMS and MMS are HUGE.. 28 th January 2010, the Mobile Data Association aggregated stats for all UK networks: 11 million text messages are sent an HOUR across UK networks... (That’s 93.8 billion during 2009...) MMS is a lot lower – “only” 600 million sent during 2009
I said there were no answers, only more questions, so a takeaway thought is challenging...
Maybe it is this: Everyone (in the UK!) has a mobile... But.. - There are vast quantities of mobile phones with vast quantities of different capabilities. - The mismatch of capability is one of the key things that can be a barrier to institutions who want to provide inclusive experiences. - Trends are starting to show, but it is far from a universal capability set, and changing all the time This becomes a guessing game, or a “just do bleeding edge” activity. It is up to institutions to choose based on individual cases
This is probably more pertinent than the old browser capability question: the differences between devices are much more marked - Here’s the current capability across all current mobile handsets. Probably the most important thing to keep an eye out on is the ability to browse…If experience has taught us anything it is that “the web” is important, probably more important than the current app store battles… More likely though, we won’t see a “dominant platform” but instead a plethora of different platforms with some cross-over in capability as illustrated by some figures like those above.
At the end of the day, I think location has the most exciting potential for content-rich institutions like museums This diagram from Paul Golding illustrates what location is actually about: the intersection of “opportunity” and “interest”...or perhaps for museums - content and context – it is about the moment when someone and something come together
Here’s the Powerhouse Museum again using a platform called “Layar” It’s a great example of bleeding edge: it is only available on iPhone or Android but it is very compelling, easy to do, and extremely sexy…! Earlier on, someone said that technology shouldn’t drive content. Normally I’d agree 100%. Here, I think we can be forgiven for letting the technology drive the content…!
If you think creatively, location doesn’t actually require location capability! Here is Brooklyn, with a web app called “BklynMuse” which (at last!) links gallery (“real”) with web (“virtual”)… This is a location-based service but doesn’t actually require that capability - you manually key stuff in. The “location” stuff is implied rather then sensed…this doesn’t feel like a location activity, but actually it is... The nice thing about this is that it is pretty much device-independent, while also being compelling from a content perspective.
Location is only going to get better...
Don’t ever predict...but IMO the future for museums and mobile is (you guessed it) experiences that are somehow location-based