The document discusses SMS usability and text input on mobile phones. It describes how the standard E.161 phone keypad mapping leads to ambiguous text entry that relies on T9 word guessing to overcome issues like misspelling. For languages like Thai with a large character set, T9 is not always helpful for disambiguation. The document questions whether the QWERTY keyboard common on phones is better suited than the E.161 mapping for text entry in different languages.
This document is an introduction to the book "Opening Up Education" which discusses how open technology, open content, and open knowledge can advance education. It provides background on the editors and contributors, acknowledges funding support from the Carnegie Foundation, and includes a foreword by John Seely Brown on the potential of new technologies and participatory media to transform learning and create a culture of sharing and participation in education.
This document discusses DoctorMe, a mobile app with over 250,000 installed users and 30,000 active monthly users. It anonymously collects health data on symptoms from users in Thailand such as headaches, insomnia, and stomach aches. The data shows some common symptoms reported before and during long holiday periods in April 2013. Future plans for the app include capturing 1 million users, conducting weekly surveys of registered users, collecting geolocated data, performing sophisticated data analysis, and making data openly available as part of One Health initiatives.
Victoria's Secret aims to get men to buy women's underwear as gifts. It proposes doing a world's first online fashion show advertised during the Super Bowl to publicize an unprecedented response. However, the response levels crashed the system. The document discusses intensifying brand involvement through various points of contact and the interplay between them to create a sensory brand world that maximizes involvement. It also covers brand audits, brand scans, challenge definition and idea generation in a 360-degree approach.
The document discusses starting a social enterprise called OpenDream that uses information and communication technologies to empower social benefit organizations. OpenDream would be neither an NGO nor non-profit, but rather a social benefit organization that aims to be financially sustainable through a business model where revenues from higher-paying work subsidize lower-paying social projects. The founders hope to use their business experience to inspire change in a fun and sustainable way by helping social organizations collaborate and communicate using new technologies.
The document discusses SMS usability and text input on mobile phones. It describes how the standard E.161 phone keypad mapping leads to ambiguous text entry that relies on T9 word guessing to overcome issues like misspelling. For languages like Thai with a large character set, T9 is not always helpful for disambiguation. The document questions whether the QWERTY keyboard common on phones is better suited than the E.161 mapping for text entry in different languages.
This document is an introduction to the book "Opening Up Education" which discusses how open technology, open content, and open knowledge can advance education. It provides background on the editors and contributors, acknowledges funding support from the Carnegie Foundation, and includes a foreword by John Seely Brown on the potential of new technologies and participatory media to transform learning and create a culture of sharing and participation in education.
This document discusses DoctorMe, a mobile app with over 250,000 installed users and 30,000 active monthly users. It anonymously collects health data on symptoms from users in Thailand such as headaches, insomnia, and stomach aches. The data shows some common symptoms reported before and during long holiday periods in April 2013. Future plans for the app include capturing 1 million users, conducting weekly surveys of registered users, collecting geolocated data, performing sophisticated data analysis, and making data openly available as part of One Health initiatives.
Victoria's Secret aims to get men to buy women's underwear as gifts. It proposes doing a world's first online fashion show advertised during the Super Bowl to publicize an unprecedented response. However, the response levels crashed the system. The document discusses intensifying brand involvement through various points of contact and the interplay between them to create a sensory brand world that maximizes involvement. It also covers brand audits, brand scans, challenge definition and idea generation in a 360-degree approach.
The document discusses starting a social enterprise called OpenDream that uses information and communication technologies to empower social benefit organizations. OpenDream would be neither an NGO nor non-profit, but rather a social benefit organization that aims to be financially sustainable through a business model where revenues from higher-paying work subsidize lower-paying social projects. The founders hope to use their business experience to inspire change in a fun and sustainable way by helping social organizations collaborate and communicate using new technologies.
This document provides a startup survival guide with 7 tips for success. It advises understanding startup fundamentals, not trying to be cool for cool's sake, using all available resources, pursuing simplicity over complexity, gaining deep understanding, accepting failure as necessary, and remembering your motivations for choosing the startup path. The document is authored by Ninh Nguyen, co-founder of Etpers and 5Desire.
Being in outer space negatively impacts the human respiratory, immune, and cardiovascular systems. Without oxygen, a person would lose consciousness within 15 seconds due to the lack of oxygen. The immune system also weakens as blood cell production decreases in the oxygen-deprived conditions of space. Additionally, the heart enlarges and slows its rate as it does not need to work as hard to circulate blood without gravity.
The document summarizes the progress of localization of the Firefox web browser into the Thai language. It states that string translation was frozen on August 15, 2008 with 71% of strings completed, with most untranslated strings being system error messages. It also provides details on man-hours spent and items consumed during the localization process, and announces plans to verify translated strings and release an official Thai version of Firefox around the end of August.
Opendream's workshop about OpenStreetMap at Mekong ICT Camp 2013 on 7th May 2013.
On 15th Slide, there is a video "Progress of Openstreetmap Haïti after 2010 earthquake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-JuFxhDT8
- DoctorMe is a mobile app with over 250,000 installed users and 30,000 active monthly users that allows citizens to empower their health.
- It could potentially save Thailand's national health insurance scheme $360,000 annually if each of the 30,000 active users saves $1 per month on average. Using the national average healthcare expense of $8.50 per person, DoctorMe could potentially save $3 million annually.
- Challenges include ensuring long term sustainability through content sales, increasing scalability by gaining more users, and expanding services to reach underprivileged users through appropriate technologies.
Lean personas: discover your real customersAdrian Howard
How can you get everyone in the team to understand your customers - especially if you're not 100% certain yourself?
Personas - research-based examples of the people who use your product - can help. Unfortunately in agile contexts traditional persona development often doesn't work well.
How do we use personas when our understanding of the product and market is still evolving? What happens when we lack the resources for extended up-front research? How do teams manage changes to existing personas? How should we communicate personas? How do we keep the value of long-term research in an environment of rapid iteration or continuous delivery?
We'll show you how to incrementally build models of your customer with the whole team. We'll be demonstrating practical techniques for documenting personas, communicating ongoing research, and integrating it with agile approaches to product vision and strategy.
Lean UX sits at the intersection of Agile, Lean Startup & User Experience. We explode some of the myths and demonstrate how to apply Lean UX principles to the way your products are designed and built.
This document discusses the history and definitions of cloud computing. It begins with various definitions of cloud computing from Wikipedia between 2007-2009 which evolved to emphasize dynamically scalable virtual resources provided over the internet. It then covers common characteristics of cloud computing like multi-tenancy, location independence, pay-per-use pricing and rapid scalability. The rest of the document details cloud computing models including public, private and hybrid clouds. It also outlines the different architectural layers of cloud computing from Software as a Service to Infrastructure as a Service. The document concludes with a discussion of security issues in cloud computing and a case study of security features in Amazon Web Services.
This document provides a startup survival guide with 7 tips for success. It advises understanding startup fundamentals, not trying to be cool for cool's sake, using all available resources, pursuing simplicity over complexity, gaining deep understanding, accepting failure as necessary, and remembering your motivations for choosing the startup path. The document is authored by Ninh Nguyen, co-founder of Etpers and 5Desire.
Being in outer space negatively impacts the human respiratory, immune, and cardiovascular systems. Without oxygen, a person would lose consciousness within 15 seconds due to the lack of oxygen. The immune system also weakens as blood cell production decreases in the oxygen-deprived conditions of space. Additionally, the heart enlarges and slows its rate as it does not need to work as hard to circulate blood without gravity.
The document summarizes the progress of localization of the Firefox web browser into the Thai language. It states that string translation was frozen on August 15, 2008 with 71% of strings completed, with most untranslated strings being system error messages. It also provides details on man-hours spent and items consumed during the localization process, and announces plans to verify translated strings and release an official Thai version of Firefox around the end of August.
Opendream's workshop about OpenStreetMap at Mekong ICT Camp 2013 on 7th May 2013.
On 15th Slide, there is a video "Progress of Openstreetmap Haïti after 2010 earthquake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-JuFxhDT8
- DoctorMe is a mobile app with over 250,000 installed users and 30,000 active monthly users that allows citizens to empower their health.
- It could potentially save Thailand's national health insurance scheme $360,000 annually if each of the 30,000 active users saves $1 per month on average. Using the national average healthcare expense of $8.50 per person, DoctorMe could potentially save $3 million annually.
- Challenges include ensuring long term sustainability through content sales, increasing scalability by gaining more users, and expanding services to reach underprivileged users through appropriate technologies.
Lean personas: discover your real customersAdrian Howard
How can you get everyone in the team to understand your customers - especially if you're not 100% certain yourself?
Personas - research-based examples of the people who use your product - can help. Unfortunately in agile contexts traditional persona development often doesn't work well.
How do we use personas when our understanding of the product and market is still evolving? What happens when we lack the resources for extended up-front research? How do teams manage changes to existing personas? How should we communicate personas? How do we keep the value of long-term research in an environment of rapid iteration or continuous delivery?
We'll show you how to incrementally build models of your customer with the whole team. We'll be demonstrating practical techniques for documenting personas, communicating ongoing research, and integrating it with agile approaches to product vision and strategy.
Lean UX sits at the intersection of Agile, Lean Startup & User Experience. We explode some of the myths and demonstrate how to apply Lean UX principles to the way your products are designed and built.
This document discusses the history and definitions of cloud computing. It begins with various definitions of cloud computing from Wikipedia between 2007-2009 which evolved to emphasize dynamically scalable virtual resources provided over the internet. It then covers common characteristics of cloud computing like multi-tenancy, location independence, pay-per-use pricing and rapid scalability. The rest of the document details cloud computing models including public, private and hybrid clouds. It also outlines the different architectural layers of cloud computing from Software as a Service to Infrastructure as a Service. The document concludes with a discussion of security issues in cloud computing and a case study of security features in Amazon Web Services.