Highlights

• Terms of particular interest:

  • serious games, web 2.0, cognition, digital identity, artificial life, virtual reality, agent technology

• Announces of conferences

  • List of academic conference as well as Journals for submitting papers
• (archives)

Summary

Example of terms and domains covered in the CALT Encyclopedia:

• learning, serious games, learning technologies
• digital identity, competence, change management
• entreprise 2.0, collaboration, knowledge management,
• cognition, artificial intelligence, artificial life
• social computing, online social networking,
• web 2.0, wiki, blog,
• tagging, semantic web, ontology, cognitive maps,
• technologies
• SOA, web services, rich client
• virtual reality, agent technology
• competitive intelligence
• organisational behaviour
• entrepreneurship
• innovation, creativity
• ...

Trends discovery

see also: competitive intelligence

Trends discovery

• Google Trends

  • Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. We then show you a graph with the results -- our search-volume graph.

• Google Zeitgeist

  • Search patterns, trends, and surprises

• BlogPulse

  • BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs and a portal into the blogosphere.
• O'Reilly Radar
• The O'Reilly Radar blog will track what O'Reilly people are tracking, and turn the blips into conversations. Using some of the technologies they're currently enjoying -- tags by del.icio.us, photos by Flickr, trends by the Yahoo!/O'Reilly Buzz Market -- they'll draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks, amplify the weak signals, draw out effective design patterns, iterate, and see if they can predict the next Mosaic, P2P, or Amazon.

• tagging

  • Help to identity what the blogosphere community thinks.

• NewsFutures prediction market

  • based on NewsFutures technology
  • NewsFutures' prediction market is a game. Similar to fantasy stock market games, this one lets players trade on news events. You predict the outcome of various real-world news events we supply. So the more you know, the more likely you are to predict correctly and win. And it's not just how much you know. You can benefit from the bad predictions of others.

• The Yahoo Tech Buzz game

  • The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends
• compete.com

News

• --- events

• Lift conference

  • A conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society
• --- news
• CNET News.com
• The Register, the Enquirer, X86-Secret, Tom's Hardware
• --- advanced aggregators
• inform

• digg

  • Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage.
• --- blogs
• SiliconValleyWatcher.com
• Jon Udell's Weblog

Miscellaneous

• Pew Internet & American Life Project

  • Internet demographics

• Competitive Intelligence Portal

  • You can find valuable tips, tricks and resources related to competitive intelligence. Experience new tools and techniques for information gathering, analysis, and dissemination to gain a competitive advantage.