Warwick Grey and Corin Haines
Warwick from HP – never set out to do IT but fell into it.

Tech trends 2009

• netbook adoption accelerates
• built-in wireless broadband usage widens

cell phones get more software

• unified communications increase
• online data backups proliferate
• social media becomes strategic at home and in business
• online video gets cheaper and there’s more of it
• video conference solutions expand
• hosted software applications
• online presence gap widens as more customers use online search before they buy

“My young life was in black and white and nothing was what I chose to watch.”
1970 calculator
1971 microprocessor
1974 colour television
1989 world of DOS
2008-2030 pervasive computing environment

Instead of building infrastructure should build community
create content -> create loyalty
enable transactions -> enable self-service
capture eyeballs -> capture experts
integrating applications -> integrating channels

Launching new fashion laptops – colours and imprinted designs

Increasingly looking at sharing information with many people at once instead of one-on-one email, video conferencing.

Cloud services = shared under virtualised management accessible over the internet
Social networking = staying connected with more people in more places

Corin:
People marketing business on Twitter – fast growing network.
Demonstrates a video recorded yesterday on a Flip camera and uploaded to YouTube
Demonstrates mash-up he made of out-of-copyright music from World War I with photos National Library uploaded to Flickr Commons

Warwick
Skype has been released for phones
Should be putting RSS options into news we provide
Bookmarking and sharing – even bookabach gives you 55 options to bookmark their pages
Mashup with Google Maps lets you show where you’ve run
Have a facebook site for your library!

Touch-screens are getting big – demonstrates touch notebook moving things on screen, magnifying video, etc – “Windows 7 is like Vista without the brain cancer”

Video showing touch-screen possibilities – fingerpainting on screen, putting together a jigsaw puzzle with a moving image, put camera on touch screen and photos appear wirelessly on the screen.

(NB I’ve left out most of the plugs for HP-specific technology 🙂

Shows Windows Movie Maker – looks fairly similar to iMovie.

Engage customrs where conversations/activity is already taking place
Empower your internal advocates (HP measures who’s most positive in their twittering about HP)
Accelerate and efforts across your organisation