Chapter 7: Application Outlook 321 ments, but also attracts non-commercial multimedia developers. As a 42 result, large amounts of Flash content are available on the Web, ranging from slide shows to click-through novels, and from music video mashups to on-line arcade games. Again, the content is mostly con- tributed from personal points of view but targeted at web viewers. 7.5.4 Discussion The above discussion illustrates the countless kinds of personal content out there. Moreover, as the Web keeps mutating and the Long Tail phenomenon strengthens, several new innovative content types will have been born between the time we wrote this book and you get to read it. This is all the better – it is amazing to see what people can come up with once the means are available. There is no limit to cre- ativity when it comes to personal content, as long as the technology does not get in the way. We hope this book helps to avoid some of the technology limitations, or at least to be aware of them. 7.6 References Ashbrook D. and Starner T. (2002) Learning signifi cant locations and predict- ing user movement with GPS. Proceedings of the Sixth International Sym- posium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2002), pp. 101–108. Blades M. and Spencer C. (1987) How do people use maps to navigate through the world? Cartographica, Volume 24, Number 3, pp. 64–75. Boyd D. (2006) Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, MO. Feb. 19. Davis M., King S., Good N., and Sarvas R. (2004) From context to content: leveraging context to infer media metadata. Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, pp. 188–195, ACM Press, New York, USA. Gartner (2006) Forecast: GPS in Mobile Devices, Worldwide, 2004–2010. Abstract available at http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_ cd=144746 Getting I.A. (1993) The global positioning system. IEEE Spectrum, Volume 30, Number 12, Dec., pp. 36–38 and 43–47. HGVNU (2006) Harrison Group / VNU Teen Trend Report, 2006. Summary available in http://www.harrisongroupinc.com/index.php?q=node/57 (Last checked Dec. 8, 2006). 42 Some examples here: http://www.fl ashgallery.co.uk/
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