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“Why the QR Code is Failing”

http://www.walkingpaper.org/4229/

Aaron Schmidt shares a quote http://www.imediaconnection.com/article_full.aspx?id=30267 by way of John Gruber:

People will not adopt a technical solution that serves to replace a manual task, if that solution is less efficient than the manual task it replaces. How could we think that QR codes for marketing would work any better than CueCat? Did we not [...]

Historypin

I got an iPhone this past month, and I’ve been slowly digging into the vast library or apps that the phone offers.  A lot of things have grabbed my attention, but nothing perhaps so much as Historypin.  From Wikipedia:

Historypin is an online, user-generated archive of historical photos and personal recollections. Users are able [...]

Thomas Brevik on iPad

Thomas and I have worked together at Internet Librarian International 2008 and back in the day doing a podcast or two about Library 2.0. He’s one of the good thinkers in LIS who I wish I had more of a chance to sit with and talk. Glad to see his take on the iPad this [...]

LIS768 Group Projects Day 2

The New Digital Divide

This group explored the New Digital Divide.

The New Digital Divide

View more presentations from newdigitaldivide.

Their project blog: http://classes.tametheweb.com/newdigitaldivide/

Hyperlocal Libraries

http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcg5kv2v_11cq59zkcw

Mobile Librarianship

Presentation at Google

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Mobile Devices & Libraries Experts Speak at ALA

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6670421.html

Libraries had better prepare for an explosion in the capacity of mobile devices as well as the transformative increase in user capacity and expectations. This was the message conveyed by a panel yesterday at [...]

OCPL iPhone & iPod Touch App

Via the Lone Wolf Librarian:

The Cell Phone Police

Don’t miss Dominican GSLIS Alum Leah White’s article in LJ:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6652439.html

So what do the survey results tell us? “A good rule of thumb: if you wouldn’t stop a face-to-face conversation between patrons, then you have no justification for stopping a technology-mediated conversation,” observed one library worker. “If you would stop a face-to-face conversation (e.g., [...]

Pew: The Mobile Difference

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/5-The-Mobile-Difference–Typology.aspx

8% of adults use mobile devices and broadband platforms for continual information exchange to collaborate with their social networks 7% of adults actively use mobile devices and social networking tool, yet are ambivalent about all the connectivity 8% of Americans find mobility lighting their information pathways, but have comparatively few tech assets at home [...]

DCPL iPhone Application

Run don’t walk to checkout the new DCPL IPhone App for the catalog:

http://www.walkingpaper.org/1100

Aaron writes:

 

  

Hurrah for alternative OPAC interfaces! I’m very pleased to let you know that the DCPL iPhone app went live last night. You can download it from the iTunes app store here. Functionality in this version includes:

searching for [...]

iPhone App Review: Charlie for Flickr

     

Charlie for Flickr, originally uploaded by mstephens7. When the App store launched, I tried the Flickr apps available – including one or two that I purchased. But recently I’ve been using Charlie, a new app developed by Graham Savage, for my Flickr surfing/commenting. The app is available in the store for $2.99: Disclaimer: [...]