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. The web provides services rather than static information. Responds to the user. Harnesses collective intelligence. - Wikipedia “web 2.0”
- Google Home Page
- Google Docs – Google’s documents and spreadsheets. Can save document online or on your desktop. Save as MSWord, PDF, OpenOffice. Go Mobile
- Goggle Pack - package of FREE software chosen by Google.
- Zoho - online word processor, spreadsheet and more. Just added offline editing and synching using "Google Gears"
- Buzzword - new web/desktop word processor.
- Photoshop Express - online photo editor with simplified functions
- Yahoo maps – Directions, traffic.
- Google maps –
- 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.
- LiveContent - Open Source/CC licensed software for libraries
- Wikia Search - Open source search?
- Drupal - Content Managment System
- Open Source God - lists 400+ open source software projects.
- 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
- del.icio.us - Social bookmarking
- Youtube – Tagging by users
- Flickr - Tagging by users
- Tagging - How people can find your information
- Tag Clouds - Gallery, examples and best practices.
Communities/Social Networking
- 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.
- CDC Swineflu Twitter stream
- Newbie's guide to Twitter - from Cnet
- Tompkins Cortland Library Twitter Stream
The users
- Generations online in 2009
- Generations online charts
- Pew Internet & American Life
- Web 2.0 and What it means to Libraries - PowerPoint presentation.
- 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.
- Health Information Seeking and the internet.
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
- Library blogs
- Blogging Libraries Wiki
- Internet Public Library Blog Directory
- Libworm - Searches RSS feeds of library blogs.
- Liszen - Searches user submitted library blogs. Uptodate content?
- Liswiki - List of Medical Librarianship blogs.
- Medworm - Searches RSS feeds of medical news
- Healtchare100.com - global ranking of top health and medicine blogs.
- Using blogs in libraries
- 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?
- Bloglines
- Google Reader -
- News Gator -
- Your browser! – Firefox and live bookmarks
- 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.
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
The new frontier?
- Second Life
- Consumer health reference service
- CSI in Second Life
- Politicians and press conferences
- Brain/Computer Interface Developed for Second Life
- Second Life Overhyped?
- Cloud Computing
- 1% Currently Using Google Docs
- "Cloud" Operating Systems?
- Microsoft Skydrive
- Reference Extract Project
- Opera Unite
- Google Health - in development
- Microsoft Health Vault
- Intel's Health Guide
- Electronic Records, HIPAA and State Laws - Article Ars Technica with link to study.
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