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What’s Coming Up? Emerging Technologies
SWFLN Workshop
Gina Clifford
May 27, 2010
Looking Back -The World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee (http, wrote the 1st web browser) 1991 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WorldWideWeb_screenshot.gif
NeXT computer (Steve Jobs of Apple Fame)
WWW - 1990’s
Widespread proliferation of the web
DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) leads to faster internet connections (replaced dial-up)
E-mail and IM become popular
Digital Cameras and MP3 players become available
Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer Browsers make web navigation easier
Mobile phones become massively popular
WWW-2000’s
First iPod 2001
Web 2.0 -Social Networking sites (MySpace, YouTube, FaceBook, etc.)
Smart mobile devicess-web browsing
iPhone 2007-touch screen interface
More Wi-Fi hotspots
Location-aware technology
What’s Next? The Sixth Sense
Is Apple making the Sixth Sense device? Cash register patent Pico Projectors "in some cases, the projection system may include a
wireless router and act as a hub," which of course gets us pondering about some future Airport/Apple TV mashup, with local storage and wireless net access, plus a projector system. Does that sound like the core of your future home media system?
Wearable Technology
Infrastructure to support the Future- Web 3.0
WSJ: Studies Forecast strong growth in Mobile Apps
FCC: FCC Aims for Nationwide Broadband Access by 2020
WSJ: Intel Launches Latest Server Chip
WSJ: Cisco touts faster web router
WSJ: FCC Chair Suggests Agency Is Considering Free Wireless Internet
E-Books
E-books outsell Print Dec. 29, 2009
Proliferation of readers (Kindle, Nook, Sony, Irex, and iPad are popular)
Dynamic Books – MacMillan Publishers
NetLibrary – fully accessible from an iPad
QR Codes
Quick Response Codes – 2D bar codes
Japan for 10 years (Auto Industry tracking)
Encode info, URL, contact, SMS, Phone call
Smart phone can read via camera + software
Allows digital interaction with print
Video on QR Codes
Create / Use a QR Code
2DcodeMe.com
Mobile Barcodes site
Customxm.com
Test or decode your QR Code
How to “Read” a QR Code Video
Examples of QR Codes Uses
Produce tracking stickers
Marketing materials – flyers, posters, billboards, tote bags, coffee mugs, buildings, business cards
In Libraries Sacremento Public Library – Reference help University of Bath Library – QR codes in
catalog Half Hollow Hills Comm. Lib – End Stacks
Android smart phone – 16 different phones – multiple carriers
Open source apps.
Ongoing enhancement of online office tools
Online Bookstore (June 2010)
From LJ: UCSD Scripps Library + Google = Oceanography data for open access via Hathi Trust
Smart Phone websites
USF Libraries Smart Phone website (In Chrome or Safari on PC)
95% mobile visitors to site use Android or Apple devices (May 2010)
As infrastructure and tech improves, mobile growth exploding (anytime/anywhere connectivity)
Devices + Web Technology
Nintendo 3D – Educational games promised No glasses required to view 3d screen Online game purchase Touch screen E-book reader
Text 2.0 German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence use web tools + leash eye-tracking technology from the Swedish firm Tobii Technologyhttp://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/eye-tracking-tablets-and-the-promise-of-text-20/#ixzz0p2bRXqoV
iPad EDU
The iPad from an Academic Professor perspective
For the Student
Multimedia: Flash vs. HTML 5
HTML5 is latest version of HTML, the language of the WWW
HTML5 Goal to reduce proprietary plug-ins
Proprietary Flash used extensively on websites (YouTube, game sites, Ads)
Apple Mobile DOES NOT support Flash
YouTube + FaceBook support Flash . . . But move to support HTML5 -YouTube
What does all this mean for libraries?
Make informed, strategic decisions about technology HTML5 instead of Flash Add or Expand support for mobile devices Watch Apple – disruptive change-agents
Leverage free but powerful tools (such as QR codes) to create new ways to interact with patrons
Support digital book demand increases as reading devices proliferate
THANKS
Gina Clifford
Web Strategy
@cobalt_grrl