Library Evolution MeetsTech Revolutions

Joe Murphy

We should adopt this

as our attitude

Just What is the Library for?

To facilitate: - Imagination

ingredients

“Let us leave limits in thinking!”

1 Billion People using Social Media

mobile is quickly becoming the main means for accessing social networks

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/publications/trends12.html

Report from International Telecommunication Union

May soon be 1 billion on Facebook alone

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/14/itu-there-are-now-over-1-billion-users-of-social-media-worldwide-most-on-mobile/

Appreciating the value we provided in the past is not synonymous with the way we did things in the past.

Why we now will pay more attention to Yahoo.

Lessons for renewing institutions.

The future is rarely how we imagined it

Facebook Sent 160 Million Visitors to Mobile Apps in March

Up from 60 million in February These represent over 1 billion visits“Seven of the top ten grossing iOS apps and six of the top ten grossing Android apps are integrated with Facebook.” - https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/05/01/growth-and-mobile-apps/

Facebook MessengerFacebook Camera

Facebook’s App Center

Eyes open: for a gem in the morass

https://squareup.com/register

Squarefor mobile payments and new products

Evolution past mobile payments to free staff from register and into mobile as platform for service management.

Mobile payments as growing trend

http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Money.pdf

New tablets, smart phones, and devices

http://allthingsd.com/20120702/jitterbug-plus-cellphone-for-seniors-gets-social/

Cell Phone for Seniors adds Social Features

Implication:Demographic barriers to social technology and photo sharing continue to lessen.

Contemporary means of engagement spread across user types.

Microsoft’s Tablet ‘Surface’

http://allthingsd.com/20120618/microsoft-launches-new-microsoft-surface-tablets/

Mind interface headset

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304707604577426251091339254.html

Closing the gap between intention and action.

Minimizing technical interface steps.

Next waves of hardware interfaces

It doesn’t always require a

leap of faith

Google’s Nexus Tablet to compete w/ iPad (cheaper/smaller) & Kindle Fire

http://allthingsd.com/20120710/from-google-the-toughest-challenger-to-the-ipad/

http://allthingsd.com/20120627/googles-nexus-7-tablet-finally-revealed/

Google +

Next Android Software Update Will Include Ai Personal Assistant, Google Now

• Features:– Makes assumptions about

information needs based on • Personal history • Calendar • Location / Location history

– Takes Apple’s Reminders a step further to action and suggestions not just user input memos.

Source http://allthingsd.com/20120627/google-now-might-be-googles-most-personalized-feature-yet/

http://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine.html

Google’s “Infrastructure-as-a-Service product”

More info - http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html

Cloud Virtualization

Google Project GlassComing next year

• Google’s Headset hardware Includes • memory and a processor• a side touchpad & voice control • camera and external a button for

pictures shared to cloud via Google+• microphone• Speaker• accelerometer & gyroscope • Compass• Wifi no 3G Point: shifts low level interaction

Main primary uses will include Notifications

Text messagestaking pictures

http://allthingsd.com/20120627/more-details-on-googles-project-glass-general-availability-pricing-and-features/

Elements are almost ‘Color’esque

Google+ Events

http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/events/

Schedule video chat Google+ Hangouts ahead of time as events

Google+ Platform for Developers

Google Plus

Know a good entrance/exit when we see it.

And know what is on the other side.

Apple is far in the lead in the mobile PC market thanks to iPad

The iPad accounts for 4/5 of Apple’s mobile PC sales.

http://www.displaysearch.com/cps/rde/xchg/displaysearch/hs.xsl/120522_apple_maintains_top_mobile_pc_share_in_q112_on_strong_ipad_shipment_growth.asp

And the iPad completely dominates the tablet market

Apple iMessage

Google buys MeeboMeebo, a popular online messaging aggregator in the heyday of IM, has exhibited some interesting pivots since then to reposition for relevancy.

More interesting to us is the newest Meebo product, a social tool that helps with current awareness and information filtering.

Apple iTunes Getting Overhaul

• iCloud integration • Integration of app search engine – App search skills

• Music sharing – Inspired by Spotify’s disruptions

• Improved content discovery • Integration of social networks • Changes will impact multiple segments of all

content industries http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-27/apple-said-to-prepare-

itunes-overhaul-improving-storage-sharing.htmlSource: Bloomberg “Apple Said to Prepare ITunes Changes to Improve Sharing”

Are we maximizing the features of iOS5?

Let’s prepare to make use of the upcoming Apple iOS6

• Maps• Facebook integration • Siri• Tom Tom • Location in Mac OSX

Through the right lens

Pinterest

Trend Area:images as fulcrum

Instagram

The True Meaning of Mobile Photo Sharing - Community contributions

to the visual narrative of a place/topic/social grouping

For Community

Now a life-streaming app

Path

Brand new update: social sharing of content engagement extended to movies and books

Find the minute texture

Twitter App Updates

In app notifications

This should be our role model

Grow With Challenges

Joe Murphy , Trend Spotter for Libraries

Twitter: @libraryfuture

libraryfuture@gmail.com

http://joemurphylibraryfuture.com