Geeks Bearing Gifts
Web 2.0
- O’Reilly “What is web 2.0?” -
The internet is the operating system. First coined in 2004 at an O’Reilly conference. Interoperability, collaboration, sharing. Responds to the user. Harnesses collective intelligence. - Wikipedia “web 2.0”
- Google Home Page
- Yahoo maps – Directions, traffic.
- Google maps – Direction, traffic, wikipedia entries and more.
- Meebo - All your IM programs in one page.
- Instantbird - New IM aggregator on the scene.
- Webware - 100 best web 2.0 applications
Open Source/Mashups/Collaboration/Folksonomies/Tagging
Open Source- Linux - One of the earliest to take the “open source” idea.
- OpenOffice - Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database creation…
- Firefox and Thunderbird – Web browser and email programs.
- Chrome - Google's foray into the browser market
- Miro - watch TV on your computer.
- Drupal - Content Managment System.
- Koha - Integrated Library System.
- Evergreen - check latest version to see how active.
- Sourceforge - repository of open source software
- Housing maps
- NYC Hospitals
- Google Maps Mania - a blog linking to Google Maps mashups of all kinds.
- H1N1 Swine Flu
- eBay – User ratings.
- Amazon – User ratings, build recommendations
- Digg – Users decide what is top news
- Tagging - How people can find your information
- Tag Clouds - Gallery, examples and best practices.
- del.icio.us - Social bookmarking
- Flickr - Tagging by users
- Wordle - create "word clouds" from text
The users
- Pew Internet & American Life
- Generations online in 2009
- Generations online charts
- Four or More
- Chronic Disease and the Internet
- Mobile Access 2010
- Cyberchondriacs 2010
- The Social Life of Health Information
- Internet use and Library Use
- Young and Wired - Teens least likely to know what libraries have to offer.
- The Millenials - instant messaging, sms messaging, multi-tasking, networking, remixing, google as first stop.
- Wired Seniors - 65 and older currently not online. That is about to change.
Communities/Social Networking
- Map of Social Networks
- Map of Social Networks 2
- Facebook
- Ning - Make your own social network.
- Nurse Connect - Nursing social network.
- Sermo - Physician community. Free to doctors, medical marketers pay to access.
- Twitter - Limited to 140 characters.
- Twitter Demographics
- MedlinePlus Twitter
- CDC Twitter stream
- UC San Diego Biomed Library Twitter Stream
- Tompkins Cortland Library Twitter Stream
- Newbie's guide to Twitter - from Cnet
- Who should I Follow?
- Why Twitter?
- Twitter vs. Facebook Demographics
- Goggle Buzz
- Mashable on Google Buzz
- Mashable - Keep up to date on social network developments
Blogs
- Technorati - Index/directory of blogs
- State of the Blogosphere - Annual update by Tehchnorati
- Kill your blogs - Wired article on the state of blogging.
- Academic blogs - Wiki of academic blogs
- Blogging Libraries Wiki
- Liswiki - List of Medical Librarianship blogs.
- Using blogs in libraries - this is from 2003
- Movable Type - Installed locally or hosted
- Movable Type goes open source
- Wordpress - Installed locally or hosted
- Blogger - free hosting
- LiveJournal - Free or paid.
- Typepad - not free
- VOX - Privacy controls
- Podcast People - Starting your own podcast or vodcast
RSS – Really Simple Syndication
- RSS – what is it?
- Medworm - Searches RSS feeds of medical news
- PubMed – example of using RSS feeds
- NN/LM MAR Homepage - RSS on the homepage
- University of PA Health System - Using RSS for a journal club.
- Twitterfeed - Link your blog to your Facebook and Twitter stream
- Google Reader
- Your browser! – Firefox and live bookmarks
Wikis
- What is a wiki?
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia entries instead of term papers
- Book lust
- Best of the Web Toolkit - "Best of the web for librarians"
- LIS Wiki
- EBM Librarian
- Pbwiki - Free wiki with opportunity to upgrade for a price.
- WetPaint - Fee wiki
- Wikia - Can request for to start a wiki for you.
- MediaWiki - Free software to start your own
- Fresh Air from WHYY, April 19, 2007 - Terry Gross interviews one of the founders of Wikipedia
Cloud Computing - only a browser required.
- Google Docs – Google’s documents and spreadsheets. Can save document online or on your desktop. Save as MSWord, PDF, OpenOffice. Go Mobile
- Office 2010 - Microsoft announces their online component will be free.
- Zoho - online word processor, spreadsheet and much more.
- Photoshop Express - online photo editor with simplified functions
- Aviary - photo editing, effects, vectors, audio and more.
The new frontier?
- Second Life
- Consumer health reference service
- Mobile, Social Health
- 1% Currently Using Google Docs - Still true?
- "Cloud" Operating Systems?
- Android Phones
- Microsoft Skydrive
- Reference Extract Project
- Kindle
- Nook
- Nookstudy - Software for electronic textbooks
- Barnes and noble up for SALE
- Google Health
- Microsoft Health Vault
- Intel's Health Guide
- Electronic Records, HIPAA and State Laws - Article Ars Technica with link to study.
