Geeks Bearing Gifts

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
  

Mashups

• Housing maps
• NYC Hospitals
• Google Maps Mania - a blog linking to Google Maps mashups of all kinds.
• H1N1 Swine Flu
  

Collaboration/Folksonomies/Tagging

• 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
  

Starting your own –

• 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

RSS Aggregators

• 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
  

Health Records online

• Google Health
  
• Microsoft Health Vault
• Intel's Health Guide
• Electronic Records, HIPAA and State Laws - Article Ars Technica with link to study.
  

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