ANN: Web 2.0 and it's impact on workplace learning - EeLS

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I am pleased to announce that we have just signed up Jonathan
Vinoskey
to speak about Web 2.0 and it's impact on workplace learning
at the
European eLearning Summit.
Have a look at the session description at
http://www.elearningsummit.eu/sessions
where you can browse the other
sessions we have organised so far.....More are being added
all the time.
One of the things you are going to love about EeLS is the
high quality
of presentations we have lined up for you.
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Don't forget our very special offer whereby the first 100
people to make
a booking get to bring an extra delegate to the conference
element of
the Summit for free. With the early bird discount we have
running now,
this represents amazing value.
And on top of that, also don't forget that eLearning Guild
members get
20% discount off the ticket price on top. Not a member? Go to
the
Guild Website now and join before you register.
Details on how to get the discount are here:
http://www.elearningsummit.eu/faq/31-general
See you in Nottingham!
Mark
European eLearning Summit
19th - 21st August 2008, Nottingham, UK
www.elearningsummit.eu
Europes Best eLearning Conference

Answer 1

Thanks Alex and Calvados,
I'm just surprised Steve/Apple made such a big announcement as though these technologies were already well known, discussed, documented, and used on the Mac (or in Safari).
Getting the development done in the 18 days Steve quoted seems like a steep hill to climb.
My other thought is that if the iPhone apps will run on the iPhone under Safari, then shouldn't they also run on Windows under Safari. In this way Apple could get a bunch of special apps to run on Windows but require Apple [free} software, i.e. Safari, as the 'virtual OS'. This could get more Windows users to see the advantages of OSX over Windows, and eventually lead to more switchers, thus enlarging Apple's market share.
Alex has noted some IO interfaces that are speific to the iPhone and telephony, but Safari is a general browser. Google has created a spreadsheet app which I understand is based on AJAX-like principles. Why not all sorts of other apps, mainly targetting usage in the web domain. Link this to a .Mac account as storage (wasn't .Mac going to feature more in the new Leopard OSX?) and we have a trojan for getting Apple software usage on Windows machines.
Andrew