http://sns.mlanet.org/blog Medical Library Association Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:19:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TechCrunch has a post concerning del.icio.us 2.0.  Along with the new look and feel, it promises to be faster and easier to learn.  Check out the post at TechCrunch and while you are there check out all the Trackback posts. http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/08/01/delicious-20/ At the recent annual meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) I attended the BIGWIG meeting. BIGWIG (Blogs, Interactive Groupware Wikis Interest Group) is an interest group in the division of ALA called Library and Information Technology Association, and was most recently headed by Jason Griffey. After ALA I ... http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/07/24/interview-with-bigwig/ Can it be?  Twitter, not just for telling the world about your latest spin class (sorry Gabe)?  This is partially funny, but also stunning when you consider the affect social networking is having on the world. Check out this story about how Twitter helped free a jailed translator in Egypt. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/10/maree.freed/index.html http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/07/11/twitter-now-a-force-of-good-in-the-world/ If you have a lot of free time and like videos about, from, and containing librarians, check out 100 Awesome Youtube Vids for Librarians. You got to love YouTube! http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/07/11/100-awesome-youtube-vids-for-librarians/ Google enters the virtual world . . . .  watch out Second Life. Rumors that Google was working on a new virtual world have turned out to be true. The company unveiled this week its three-dimensional make-believe community called Lively . . . Chronicle of Higher Education - Scholars Are Skeptical of ... http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/07/11/google-goes-virtual/ Roz Dudden from the Tucker Medical Library contacted me to let me know that she has replicated the Web 2.0 101: Introduction to Second Generation Web Tools for her library.  Very cool.  We are leaving the course site online for the time being.  Much like original Learning 2.0 course we ... http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/06/26/tucker-medical-library-replicates-web-20-course/ Last week NPR ran a series of stories dealing with email and how it affects our lives.  I find it interesting that many of us have shied away from Web 2.0 while clinging to our inbox as the primary method of communication.  Well, the days of keeping our email in ... http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/06/25/inbox-20/ In case you are in the New York area September 16-19 you may consider going to the Web 2.0 Expo New York sponsored by O'Reilly Media, Inc. "Whether you're a designer, developer, marketer, entrepreneur, business strategist, or technologist, whether you're a geek or a suit that "gets it," if you're looking ... http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/06/25/web-20-expo-comes-to-new-york/ Earlier this month Acrobat launched a new 2.0 public beta collaborative site (http://www.acrobat.com/).  Imagine Google Docs on steroids.  Within the site you can: Collaboratively create documents Share your computer screen for live meetings (formerly Brio) Convert files to PDF Store files in a central location Share files without losing control Will this compete with Google Docs?  ... http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/06/18/acrobat-20-public-beta/ Coming soon to the Grey Lady: application programming interface capabilities. The online rumor mill is buzzing that the NYT digital side aims to make the entire newspaper "programmable." This feature might appear as soon as a couple of weeks. Marc Frons, NYT Chief Technical Officer, told mediabistro.com that internal developers ... http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2008/05/27/new-york-times-api/