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Technology Radar Revisited. Chris Lynnes Processes and Strategies Subgroup. Background. Need to continually identify and assess: Promising new technologies Disruptive technologies Over-hyped technologies Detection Tools Online tech blogs del.icio.us Assessment Tools Gartner Hype Cycle.
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Technology Radar Revisited Chris Lynnes Processes and Strategies Subgroup
Background Need to continually identify and assess: • Promising new technologies • Disruptive technologies • Over-hyped technologies Detection Tools • Online tech blogs • del.icio.us Assessment Tools • Gartner Hype Cycle
Methods del.icio.us • Original concept: everybody get accounts and tag new tech with "tiwg radar" • Privacy concerns with del.icio.us • Cognitive "switch" required to post tags • Logistics of searching on combined search words • Recommended revision • Use "tiwg-radar" instead of "tiwg radar" • Email links to designated tagger if desired • Schedule quarterly review of technology detections Technology blogs • Assignees for each critical blog?
Quarterly Review of Technology Review Tagged Technologies • New ones • New information about existing ones Technology Mail List • Tech infusion members • Anyone else in ESDSWG or ESIP that wants to subscribe Actions • Highlight 1-3 technologies for the Technology Mail List • Query technology list on: • Any experience with <tech>? • Any plans to use <tech>?
Del.icio.us tech radar applications Technology Tryouts • GES DISC engineers assigned to try one tagged tech per month • Constrained to 8 hours • Result to be a prototype showing GES DISC applicability • August: Yahoo Pipes • September: Squid Web Proxy • October: TBD Tag Searching • In delicious search, type, e.g.: "tag:netcdf" Technology "Hitchhiking" • Tag an interesting technology • Click on link for other people who have tagged it • Look at the other technologies they have tagged