d.Construct 2007 Ideas

I attended the d.Construct 2006 conference earlier this year and thought it was good but lacking in certain areas.

Here are some areas that I would like to see covered next year:

• Ubiquitous Computing

• Usability and user centered design, covering things like: how to run your first test session, practicing simplicity in design (and business), maybe even scratching the surface of cognitive psychology.

• Findability as in Ambient Findability by Peter Moorville

• SPARQL "the Query Language of the Web" (about SPARQL on ITConversations). Some crossover with Microformats here perhaps.

• A brief history of the information age - accounts of how platforms have been developed then failed - lessons for the future that kind of thing.

I haven't thought this through at all, I just wanted to get rid of the 'd.Construct 2007.txt' file that's been on my Desktop for months now.

[update: Nov 30, 06] Another idea:

• Creating community orientated sites
  I've had a lot of clients recently wanting the next MySpace or Youtube and I don't see this stopping anytime soon.

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