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Pew: Half of Adult Cell Phone Owners Have Apps on Their Phones

The share of adult cell phone owners who have downloaded an app nearly doubled in the past two years –from 22% in September 2009 to 38% in August 2011 – according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.  When adults whose phones came preloaded with apps [...]

Vade Mecum

This video inspires me. Have you seen it?

Emerging Trends & Emerging Technologies – Slides from NJLA

 

For my interview at SJSU and for my recent Trends & tech talks, I’m framing the discussion around the four thematic areas above. The slides from my Trends talk at New Jersey Library Association expand on the areas – I cannot believe I haven’t posted them:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/TrendsTech2011NJLA.pdf

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What is “Social Reading” and why should Libraries care? – A TTW Guest Post by Allison Mennella

Part 1:  Defining “Social Reading”

“Social reading,” as a concept, is actually quite simple:  people want to share what they have read with other people and receive feedback about their thoughts and ideas.  Technology is the great enabler for social reading, and the natural place for this activity to cultivate.  Social reading has several key [...]

The Biep Is On!

Gerard Bierens writes:

I noticed the qr code shirt, nice. Look at what we did to launch our new searchengine: http://www.youtube.com/fontyslibrary

A Day Made of Glass

What do you make of this “glass-centric” vision of the future?  This video also offers some thought provoking images and ideas for  a vision of 21st Century information behavior.

This is the Creepy, Super Cool Future of Smartphones & Social Networks

Viewdle – Photo and Video Face Tagging from Viewdle on Vimeo.

Scanning Library Cards on Smartphones from the Swiss Army Librarian

Don’t miss:

http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/08/scanning-library-cards-on-smartphones/

Patrons also use these apps for their library card numbers, and some libraries aren’t sure how to handle the library-card-on-smartphone situation. It hasn’t really come up in my library, but I know our traditional scanners won’t read barcodes off a smartphone screen. So, I thought I’d do some research to find out [...]

Office Hours Extra: What’s On the Horizon? Emerging Technologies & Key Trends

Don’t miss the new Horizon Report!

Since 2002 the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiatives have released the yearly Horizon Report, which “introduces six emerging technologies or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use within three adoption horizons over the next five years” in the realm of learning and inquiry.

The last [...]