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

Google

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

gina.clifford@gmail.com

@cobalt_grrl