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Additional analysis on some of the technologies and trends at the Peak of Inflated Expectations that will reach the plateau in two to five years are included below:

Cloud Computing. As enterprises seek to consume their IT services in the most cost-effective way, interest is growing in drawing a broad range of services (for example, computational power, storage and business applications) from the “cloud,” rather than from on-premises equipment. The levels of hype around cloud computing in the IT industry are deafening, with every vendor expounding its cloud strategy and variations, such as private cloud computing and hybrid approaches, compounding the hype.

E-Book Readers. Sony’s e-book reader and Amazon’s Kindle have attracted a great deal of attention during 2009. However, the devices still suffer from proprietary file formats and digital rights management technologies, which along with price, are limiting their adoption and will drive them into the Trough of Disillusionment.

The following have tipped just past the Peak of Inflated Expectations:

Social Software Suites. Awareness of social technology is high because of the popularity of related consumer social software and Web 2.0 services. Within businesses, there is strong and rapidly growing evidence of experimentation and early production deployments. The movement from point tools to integrated suites has brought broader adoption but also high expectations. Disillusionment is beginning based on the realization that, even with a suite, much work must be done to build an effective social software deployment.

Microblogging. Microblogging, in general, and Twitter, in particular, have exploded in popularity during 2009 to the extent that the inevitable disillusionment around “channel pollution” is beginning. As microblogging becomes a standard feature in enterprise social software platforms, it is earning its place alongside other channels (for example, e-mail, blogging and wikis), enabling new kinds of fast, witty, easy-to-assimilate exchanges.

the Presidential search process which will commence in the near future. The Board wishes to move ahead with this process expeditiously so that all constituencies in the University community will have an opportunity to provide input before the end of the winter semester.

The process will be aided by the use of an executive search firm. The last presidential search was assisted by the firm of Ray and Berndtson. After consideration, the Board has chosen to use Ray and Berndtson again for the upcoming search.

Between now and when the Presidential Search Committee meets in early December, Ray and Berndtson will begin preparing a Position Profile to be put forward for review and approval by the Search Committee. To this end, the consultants will meet with members of the University community and external stakeholders to seek input into the Position Profile. The consultants will also take steps to advertise the position. Once applications are received, the Search Committee will confidentially consider those applications.

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Finally, a Solution for Lazy Marketers With Money to Burn

 If you’re a lazy marketer with lots of money on your hands, you’re in luck.  Last week the Southern California-based startup Ad.ly launched the first in-stream advertising platform for Twitter. That means that you can now setup an account on Ad.ly.com, find a few Twitterers whose streams you’d like your marketing message Tweeted from, then make them an offer. If they accept it, your tweet will be published in their stream once a day for a week.

In the forefront of news reflecting the direction the web is taking — Google has recently announced their experiment, Social Search, is now live for the adventurous type to opt in.    Simply head on over to Google Experiments and click “Join this Experiment” to start viewing social search results every time you search.

More easily find relevant blogs, reviews and other public content from your social circle.

Sign in to Google and do a search. If there’s relevant web content written by people in your social circle, it will automatically show up at the bottom of your search results under a section called “Results from people in your social circle.”

To see even more social content you can click the “Show options” link at the top of the results page and then click on the “Social” link.

What is your social circle? It’s a combination of your Gmail chat buddies, your Gmail contacts friends, family and co-worker groups, and people you’re publicly connected to on other social sites (such as Twitter and FriendFeed)

Social Search adds relevant content from your contacts to your results.

When you join the Social Search experiment, Google may bring up results from your friends and other contacts. These special results appear at the bottom of the search results page, in a section labeled “Results from people in your social circle.”

With Social Search, you’ll be able to more easily find relevant public content from your social circle, such as the following:

• Websites, blogs, public profiles, and other content linked from your friends’ Google profiles.
• Web content, such as status updates, tweets, and reviews, from social services that your friends have listed in their Google profiles.
• Relevant articles from your Google Reader subscriptions.

You can also filter your search results to only see results from people in your social circle. Here’s how:

1. Click Show Options at the top of the search results page to open the Options panel.
2. Click Social to filter your results.

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http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html

YouTube offers up multiple APIs that allow you to do a number of different functions. The data API allows you to incorporate YouTube functions into your site such as uploading, performing searches, creating playlists and more. There are two different player APIs that allows you to choose the normal player, or one that gives you a completely customized player. The last one is widget-based and will allow you to add small YouTube tools anywhere you choose on your site.

The Flickr API allows you to build apps that will retrieve public photos, videos, favorites, friends, group pools, discussions and more from the site. You can also use it to build tools that will upload photos and videos. The Flickr API supports many protocols including REST, SOAP and XML-RPC.

http://code.flickr.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/maps/developers/

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

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