This evening session is always entertaining and informative, if a little rowdy, and this evening was no exception. My one surprise is, given the amount of loathing expressed for the iPad, no one included in the comments and criticism the news of the past few days that Apple is 1). adding multitasking to the iPad in the Fall (a good thing) and 2). has added some really objectionable clauses to the license agreement for developers for the iPhoneOS which restricts them from using anything that would make it easy to develop something simultaneously for (say) Android and iPhoneOS simultaneously (clearly a very bad thing). I'm sure the loathing of the device wouldn't have been lessened much by the promise of multitasking, but the latter point certainly would have provided a few more things to hate.
In addition to the iPad, Adobe's products (particularly Flash) were generally declared dead.
Android, HTML 5, Android tablets and the mobile/geolocating/social web were clearly hot and lively. There was some disagreement on the future of the mobile app, with Amanda Etches-Johnson of McMaster University declaring it dead (in favor of mobile web-based services) and David Lee King of Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library considering the app still quite alive.
Stephen Abram's typical dense and opinionated (but very funny) presentation closed the affair as is typically the case when he's available to fill that role.
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