The first speaker delivers a generic intro on how realtime has become important, how it lead the way with breaking news like Michael Jackson’s death, how Google and Bing fought over deals with Twitter, etc.In all honesty, it’s nothing you haven’t heard a million times before.

Second up was Rob Walk from a company called NovaRising. He showcases a platform they’ve develop which scans and parses tweets about music to break them down into thematic groups on genre, artist and sentiment. He feels that this could be something that the Search Engines are missing out on.  I think there’s a point there – especially when Google launched realtime and there was so much unsorted spam there, but mainly I think the key thing is a ranking algorithm for realtime results to filter out spam.  This is something Google has improved on recently.  and I think the likes of sentiment analysis is in pretty early stages in terms of sophistication, but it may one day be incorporated by search engines. I don’t think that’s their role though.

Next up is Bill Scott from easelTV, talking about the integration of social network updates to TV screens, how TV watchers are profiled and how to “SEO TV” (something about metadata!).It may sound like I am a bit stroppy, but I don’t really see how this remotely associated with realtime search or at all interesting or forward thinking. Can you really think of anything worse than facebook or tweet updates showing up on my t.v. as I am watching my favourite programme. Let alone realtime ads (*shudder*).

Next on the agenda is William Fischer who is from Workdigital and he informs us all about a product they have developed aimed soley at the recruitment industry to semantically analyse realtime updates from the likes of twitter and Linkedin. It’s a sales pitch. This doesn’t interest me in the slightest. If i wanted to be sold something I would have attended a free conference such as TFMA or perhaps Internet World. Yawn.

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The introduction of speech technologies and web 2.0 tools are two modes by which the learning management system reference material can be modified and also the learning capability can be boosted up. The web 2.0 tools are available worldwide and by effective communication, these tools can assist in making the learning more useful as well as appealing.

Read more about the benefits of pairing an LMS with Web 2.0 and speech technologies.

The schools and companies using a learning management system have to experience various problems by incorporating web 2.0 tools and speech technologies in their course software.. Despite the fact that these tools provide great help to the training and educational courses, sometimes they are not very successful because of several hindrances.

Tools such as, VoIP technology (Skype et al), Blogs, social networks, wikis, podcasts and discussion boards are being introduced in the online learning courseware by the schools and organizations.

Web 2.0 gives enough scope for development by exchange of ideas between the students and trainee employees. Nonetheless, there are many interruptions such as, advertisements, which adversely affect the students. When you are selecting web 2.0 tools for your online course, pick the one that values you. There are certain advertisements used on MySpace which contain harmful elements of several social networking and other sites. On MySpace, while signing up, for instance, it is difficult to see the login box due to constant interrupting ads. Facebook and Google give consent to advertisements which are less intrusive.

A controversy exists that because of the prevalent monetary necessities, these ads are allowed. Nonetheless, very few do this. Organisations like Google promotes methods which maintains users’ dignity and creativity without the use of loud and unwanted ads. How does Facebook implement this? Intelligently, it lets consumers choose the class of ads they require.

Consumers are asked to give a talk on videos, take part in an event, or forward a gift by using “engagement ads” in Facebook. To set an example, the earlier year on voting day, Ben & Jerry’s acquired an ad that gives consent to its visitors to mail a hypothetical ice-cream cone to their associates, broadcasting its plan of a actual cone to those who assisted in voting. The originality of social networking websites is the honorary reaction they motivate, and one such recreation on Facebook is advertising.

Aside from diversions, most of the web 2.0 tools facilitate learning management system users to have a wonderful communicative and active learning experience.

Many learning programs are offered by an LMS for the pupil and the employee without any charge. In the computer world or physically, verbal communication is given more preference to typing. An LMS can be merged with social networking programs to give employees an online space to get trained and work in a team.

The two awesome breakthroughs to identify closely are speech synthesis programs like text-to-speech(TTS) and speech recognition programs. The progress of the TTS facet is surpassing the speech recognition programs, but the most recent developments in speech recognition technologies, such as Google, have shown a positive growth. A well-organized TTS program is helpful in fulfilling the needs of learning management system users who do not have good vision. But the concept of hearing any text content online for visually affected users and students is unbelievable.

Now the important topic is Speech recognition along with Google’s new plan of joining Google Voice with Google Translate. Presume that in the world English is not essential for interaction between students and trainees. Speaking fluently without errors to people of all countries is helpful as this helps in the advancement of web 2.0 tools learning management systems and online training; and also global unity.

No doubt the general public will be a lot more inclined to pay or subscribe for news content from highly trusted and prestigious firms.You will not find any who are more highly thought of or respected than the BBC, and they may well now be the only “free” news provider left online (although in the words of Robert A Heinlein “TANSTAAFL”– see licence fee). Such quality broadsheets and periodicals such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Times and Economist could all easily charge for access to online news.  For example, can anyone seriously doubt that people would have been queuing up to pay to get more detail on the Telegraph‘s scoop about MP’s expenses – a great story from a trusted, well regarded source.

What is Quality?

Would you pay for sites that aren’t “quality”?Think about it, this approach may well work for the broadsheets, but do you think it would be successful for the likes of the Sun and News of the World?Can you honestly say that you would pay money to see Page 3 girls, or perhaps “exclusive” interview with these no brainer celebs? I would say that the answer to this question is probably yes.  Many people would do just that because after all, it depends on how you define “quality”.The tabloids like the Sun, are in my humble opinion very well written and produce high quality, entertaining stories and they know exactly who their audience are.

News is a Precious Commodity

So basically paying a charge for news will happen and ultimately it will be successful.This is partly due to the fact that Murdoch is behind the scheme and it really does make sense and could well be the saviour of our hard pressed newspapers.After all, we are already paying for a daily paper.The Europeans and US broadsheets pay top price for their cover charge compared with the low prices we pay in the UK.  So if you physically fork out for your news via print (and in reality you’re paying for it through the TV and radio via the licence fee too) and seem happy to pay for various apps or Premier League Football on Sky,  then why wouldn’t you pay for such a precious commodity as news?

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The move to start charging for access to News Corporation ’s newspaper websites  has generated much heat and probably very little light amongst commentators and aficionados who see this as the  “evil empire”  subverting the ethos of the “free web”, free access to information and the general all round edification of mankind.This isn’t the first time that Murdoch has had a go at the Internet, and previously he has accused Google of poaching content it doesn’t own and has recommended media outlets to argue their case.

“Google Devalues Everything it Touches”

Recently newspapers have seen a whole new change in the dynamics of their business, partly due to the fact of these new distrubition channels.  Murdoch maintains that Google (which doesn’t produce any journalism of its own) have made themselves a fortune by simply organising the work of others and selling advertising against it while the originating authors suffer.  Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson has said that: “Google devalues everything it touches. It divides content quantitatively rather than qualitatively.”  Google of course see it differently, maintaining that all they do is show just enough information to make the user want to read a full story with the headline, a line of text and links to send more than 300 million clicks a month to newspaper web sites.

It has become evident that hard news (even if it does come from Fox) is a very precious and valuable asset.To achieve good journalism, albeit from a nationaly daily paper or even a monthly trade magazine is going to cost money.  Whatever you think of him, Murdoch is a smart cookie and has long regarded free-to-access news websites as a  “malfunctioning” business model.The upsurge in online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal have demonstrated that it is conceivable to charge for content on the web.Could it be that perhaps Murdoch for once could be right, and not just because he himself needs to generate money to make up for the declining earnings across News Corporation.

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Google’s Chrome OS, perhaps, is the most expected thing in 2010. The fact that everything is going to be on cloud and that users would not require to install anything (any tools, softwares etc.) makes Google Chrome an amazing thing. A software that will work both as your operating system and the web browser is a sure thing to have in your computer. Also, really] fast. Just about 7 sceonds.  Well, that’s definitely too quick!

I did know about all this (the news of Google Chrome OS is everywhere), but was quite amazed to know that Dell has already made available a compatible version for mini 10v netbook users. I landed upon the information on this tech blog – onlygizmos.com. I personally am waiting to use the actual Google Chrome OS, but until then Dell version would be a good thing to play with.

Anybody can download this 10v compatible version from the link given on this post – Dell Honours Geeks, Gives Chrome OS to Play With. There is also a link to the instruction set on how to download and use the version. It is all a simple thing. You can load the file in a USB and then get on using it.

Dell users are sure having a great time getting to use the Google Chrome OS, a 10v version though. Until the actual Google Chrome OS comes out in the market for public usage (and that’s not until 2010), all internet fanatics may use this compatible version by Dell.

But a word of caution: The application may have certain issues, so users please be very careful while downloading and using it. WiFi connectivity can cause a lot of problems. Nonetheless, it is worth trying out Dell’s work.

Anything that Google does or doesn’t do become the talk of the tech world. And why not? After all Google has become an inseparable part of all techie’s lives. Sometimes it seems with Google applications not around all our work will come to a stagnation. It sure will. Think of Google mail undergoing a crash. Or Google chat not working…or google docs getting stuck…I don’t know about yours, but my work surely will suffer a good amount of loss. 

There has been a lot of guesses about what the Google cell phone is going to be like or will Google actually launch a cell phone of its own? Recent reports say Google, if at all ever introduces a cell phone, will not come out with a regular cell phone. It may be a VOIP device with unlimited calling powered by Google Voice or some similar application.

Although Google has been denying any such news, rumors still keep surfacing up every now and then (may be because of the keen interest Google has been showing in the cell phone industry) . Also, a lot of people in the past have dismissed such talks saying Google, being a brand of software applications, it is highly doubtful that it may get into the hardware area. Rather it will try to strengthen its position in software section itself. Even if it gets, it will not be a thorough move into Hardware, instead it may collaborate with cell phone manufacturing networks.

I may not be the right person to comment on this subject. You would perhaps listen from the experts who will give you a better insight into the Google cell phone news. You may read this post More Rumors On The Google Phone, Data Only.

But until the cell phoneis actually introduced every thing will remain rumour.