Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Service, Tech on Sunday, April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a few months old now, but exciting nevertheless: the cell phone company Nokia along with the University of Cambridge (UK) have come up with a pliable cell phone. The Nokia Morph nanotechnology model is still in the concept stage, and, according to the LetsGoDigital article, it shows that nanotechnology might be able to [...]
Posted in Eh?, Future, Solutions, Tech on Monday, March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Emotiv has created a prototype of a headset that enables limited mind-control over digital objects. According to CNET News, they promise headsets on the market for Christmas. Clearly this technology is still in its baby shoes. Still, it’s intriguing. Who knows, maybe it will take off. After all, only two years ago I would’ve laughed [...]
Posted in Links, Solutions, Tech on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
EveryBlock is now available for New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. In Stephen Francoeur’s words, the site “allows you to search for neighborhood news and data in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco. You can search by address, ZIP code, or neighborhood name. The site pulls together information from a number of sources in a [...]
Posted in Solutions, Tech, Web 2.0 on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps from Mashable. Via Stephen’s Lighthouse.
Forget Excel: 14 Online Spreadsheet Applications and 13 Tools for Tracking Discussion in the Blogosphere from Mashable. Via lo-fi librarian.
The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives. Mostly conventional programs, but includes a few web applictions. Via What [...]
Posted in Tech, Web 2.0 on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The article 11 Things to Know About the Sematic Web from ReadWriteWeb will not tell you everything you need to know. It will, however, give you some basics.
Via Stephen’s Lighthouse.
Posted in Academic, Learning, Tech, Web 2.0 on Monday, February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Europeana is a portal-in-progress for European cultural heritage, with a planned launch in November 2008. For now, you can see the quick video intro (from the current main page) or the lengthy site demo. More information is available in the press release:
“Van Gogh’s down at heel boots were the first thing to appear on the [...]
Posted in Future, Searching, Solutions, Tech on Friday, February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
According to Read Write Web, the news organization Reuters has stepped into the semantic web arena with Open Calais. The application will perform semantic markup on unstructured HTML, extracts people, places, companies, and events, and annotates the metadata. RWW predicts better searching among other outcomes.
Posted in Links, Solutions, Tech, Usability on Monday, February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
…and other ideas from Top 10 obscure Google search tips from Lifehacker.
From American Libraries Direct 1/9/2008.
Posted in Clever, Future, Solutions, Tech, tagged RFID on Saturday, January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
The Take_a_seat project by Jelte van Geest looks like science fiction: a smart card / RFID activated chair that follows you around in the stacks, then returns automatically to its recharging station when you leave the library.
[video ca. 2 min]
A quick search revealed multiple news blogs citing the project as concept, nothing more. [...]
Posted in Conferences, Future, Library 2.0, Tech, Web 2.0 on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
LibrarianInBlack links to the handy guide for conference bloggers by Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani. (I certainly could’ve used this at the IL2007!)
Ten things that will change your future lists technologies that are likely to be influential. I was aware of the Seti@home project, microblogging (Twitter, Jaiku etc.), and One laptop per child; the others [...]
