'Over the next 10 years the Financial Services sector faces a number of skills challenges to ensure it remains globally competitive. We currently have a shortage of more than 400,000 people ... Our vision is for the National Skills Academy for Financial Services to offer national centres of excellence in skills training and development for the financial services industry.'
'Ten years ago, due to the nature of software development, creating an application program interface (API) was usually the first step. Developers, hoping to attract a user base, would then create applications with as many features as possible. Once the users showed up, a community might develop around the application. Today however, Adam Bosworth, a vice president of engineering at Google, argues that the game has changed, and that a successful application will likely develop around an existing community. ... Bosworth then looks ahead ten years and attempts to describe what future enterprise development projects may look like. He speculates that the ability of a community to interact within an application may eventually outweigh the content provided by the application itself. Bosworth then calls special attention to the health care industry. As the population ages and health care costs continue to soar, Bosworth sees tremendous opportunity for developers to embrace the health care community and to build useful tools which cater to clusters of patients and doctors.'
Introduction to web2.0 for educators: 'The main objectives of the publication are first to inspire teachers to want to try some of these "new tools" for themselves and with their classes, and then to provide practical advice and guidance on how to do so.'
Mike Malloch argues that groupwise tagging for semantic content is a key research problem, because it does not work well currently, and for social software that is the primary way in which the program can learn about the user/learner's understanding.