Geographic Tweeting

March 10, 2008 – 7:42 pm

twittervision and twittermap show new tweets wherever they appear on the map, TwitterWhere let’s you follow tweets at a specific location, and Ask500People has nothing to do with Twitter but does show you global opinion. Live. While you watch (so they say, anyway).

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NYT: The Link Is The Currency Of The Web

September 18, 2007 – 7:15 pm

The New York Times has struggled with TimesSelect, now they’re killing it. But the news here isn’t that a media giant is giving up on a much hyped online venture. The news is that a media giant is endorsing what we now call web 2.0:
Since we launched TimesSelect in 2005, the online landscape has altered [...]

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Communities Are As Communities Do

January 28, 2007 – 12:41 pm

Right there are the beginning of Esther Dyson’s ten-year-old book, Release 2.1, she alerts us to the Web 2.0 challenge we’re we’re now beginning to understand:
The challenge for us all is to build a critical mass of healthy communities on the Net and to design good basic rules for its public spaces so that larger [...]

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Technology Scouts At AALL

July 11, 2006 – 12:59 pm

I’m honored to join Katie Bauer, of Yale University Library, in a program coordinated by Mary Jane Kelsey, of Yale Law’s Lillian Goldman Library.
The full title of our program is Technology Scouts: how to keep your library and ILS current in the IT world (H-4, 4PM Tuesday, room 274). My portion of the presentation [...]

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I Want URL Addressable Spreadsheet Cells (and cell-ranges)

June 8, 2006 – 12:36 pm

When I heard news that Google was to release a spreadsheet companion to their freshly bought Writely web-based word processing app, I got excited about all the things they could do to make it more than just a copy of Numsum. Let’s face it, Google’s the Gorilla in the room here and they’re gonna squash [...]

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The Future Of Privacy and Libraries

February 1, 2006 – 12:23 pm

Ryan Eby speaks with tongue firmly in cheek in this blog post, but his point is well taken. Privacy is serious to us, but we nonetheless make decisions that trade bits of our patrons’ privacy as an operational cost. While we argue about the appropriate time keep backups of our circulation records, we largely accept [...]

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Goodbye x.0

January 17, 2006 – 9:59 pm

In recognition of the divisive and increasingly meaningless nature of x.0 monikers — think library 2.0 and the web 2.0 that inspired it — I’m doing away with them.
When Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with disdain about the AJAX happy nouveaux web application designers and the second internet bubble (and he’s not entirely off-base) and starts claiming [...]

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Raging Arguments About The Future Of The ILS

December 6, 2005 – 8:54 am

I feel a little misrepresented by a post from Talis’ Richard Wallis claiming you don’t need technology for Library 2.0 - but it helps, but the company blog doesn’t allow embedded URLs, so I’m posting my comment here:
Richard, please don’t misunderstand me. Technology is the essential infrastructure for Library 2.0. My point was that technology [...]

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Library 2.0?

December 2, 2005 – 11:05 am

Rochelle worries that all this Library 2.0 talk is lost on her library. Ross tells us why he hates the Library 2.0 meme and Dan reminds us it’s not about buzzwords. But Michael is getting closest to a point that’s been troubling me for a while: Library 2.0 isn’t about software, it’s about libraries. It’s [...]

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OPAC Web Services Should Be Like Amazon Web Services

November 30, 2005 – 3:25 pm

No, I’m not talking about the interface our users see in the web browser — there’s enough argument about that — I’m talking about web services, the technologies that form much of the infrastructure for Web 2.0.
Once upon a time, the technology that displayed a set of data, let’s say catalog records, was inextricably [...]

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SwarmSketch

October 31, 2005 – 7:28 am

Via Information Nation, I found SwarmSketch. Here’s the description:
SwarmSketch: Collective sketching of the collective consciousness.
SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what [...]

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Flock Out

October 24, 2005 – 8:06 pm

The Flock preview is out and I love it. The good folks at WordPress.com are saying ?it’s like Firefox with goodies.? I’m saying it’s a browser built for Web 2.0.

tags: web2.0, browser, firefox, flock, goodies, web 2.0, web 20, web browser, web20

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Understanding Web 2.0

October 24, 2005 – 7:35 am

Ross Mayfield says Web 2.0 is ?made of people.? Tim O’Reilly tells us it’s about participation. And to Marc Canter, it’s the connectivity.
More to come…

tags: connectivity, marc canter, participation, people, ross mayfield, social networking, tim o’reilly, tim oreilly, web 2.0, web 20, web20

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