First to speak tells us a generic introduction into how real-time has become vital, how it can lead the way with breaking news such as the death of Michael Jackson and how Bing and Google argued over deals with Twitter.  Basically nothing you haven’t heard before, just mosey along now.

The second speaker is Rob Walk from 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 this is something that Search Engines are missing.That is a fair point, especially when Google launched real-time and there was so much spam that wasn’t being filtered, but probably the key thing is a ranking alogirithm for all results to filter out spam.However, this is something that Google has recently improved on.  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. At the present time though I don’t think that is their role.

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!).  Sorry to sound cranky and I will look at this again after the conference, but I really don’t see how this is (a) anything to do with realtime search, and (b) remotely 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 up, William Fischer from workdigital talks about a product they’ve developed for the recruitment industry to semantically analyse realtime updates from twitter, linkedin, etc. It’s a sales pitch. I’m not at all interested in this. If I wanted a sales pitch, I would have visited a free conference such as Internet World or TFMA. Yawn.

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The learning management system can augment the course content and develop the learning potentiality by implementing web 2.0 tools and speech technologies. Web 2.0 tools can be easily accessed from any part of the world and by communicating well, these tools can be very helpful in making the training useful and interesting.

Learn about the speech technology added to a learning management system.

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.

With the introduction of web 2.0, there is great facility for communication between pupils and trainees. Nevertheless, advertisements are distractions, particularly school students. When you are selecting web 2.0 tools for your online course, pick the one that values you. Some advertisements used on MySpace show destructive factors of several social networking and other sites. As an example, when you log in to MySpace, there are repeated advertisements that cause disturbances while logging in. But some sites, for example, Google and Facebook give approval for only those advertisements which are less distracting.

Many debate that due to existing financial requirements, such ads are given permission. 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? Cleverly, it allows the users to determine the type of ads they need.

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.

Several educational programs are offered by an LMS for the student and the employee, free of cost. Through Internet or in the real world, many people favor verbal speech 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.

Two other interesting progressions to observe in detail are speech recognition programs and speech synthesis programs; for instance, text-to-speech (TTS). The TTS factor has continuously been better than speech recognition program, but with latest breakthroughs in speech recognition technologies, such as Google, it is gaining importance. A well-planned TTS program is of great help in fulfilling the necessities of visually affected learning management system users. The thought of hearing any words on the monitor screen by pupils and users having bad vision is unimaginable.

The vital topic now is Speech recognition with Google’s latest decision to unite Google’s Voice with Good Translate. Just imagine if in the world, English is not the only necessary language for communication between pupils and trainee employees. It is advantageous if you can speak to people from various other countries without mistakes and this is helpful in the development of web 2.0 tools learning management systems and online learning; as well as for worldwide seamless collaboration.

Google rarely goes out of news. 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 standstill. It sure will. Think of Gmail 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 speculation about what the Google cell phone would be like or will Google actually introduce 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 other application similar to that.

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 rumors 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 foster 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 should perhaps listen from the experts who will give you a clear insight into the rumored news of Google cell phone. You may read this post More Rumors On The Google Phone, Data Only.

But until the so called Google cell phoneis actually out in the market every thing will remain rumour.