cool toys conversations, january 2009

Cool Toys Conversations, January 2009

PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, University

of Michigan, pfa@umich.edu

Communication

• http://youthvoices.net/

• Twitterimage.com• Twitterimages.com

• Wikipatterns.com

• http://getsatisfaction.com/annarbor/

• http://twitter.com/bizarrefoods

• Identi.ca

Education

• Wikisky.org

• http://www.khanacademy.org/

• http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy

• Cell Stories: http://cellstories.org/

• http://xtimeline.com/

• outreachworld.org/

• googlelittrips.org/

• http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CentersandInstitutes/EmergingMedia.aspx

• http://www.google.com/countdownto2009/

Games

• http://www.springerlink.com/content/e312w7l681h38342/

• http://www.springerlink.com/content/e312w7l681h38342/

• http://squidspace.com/

• http://rogue.gotgame.com/

• http://www.businessandgames.com/blog/

• Gamepolitics.com

• https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp004.nsf/v16_agenda?openform&seminar=FE6R8WES&locale=en_US

• http://torontoist.com/2008/02/can_video_games.php

• http://www.powerupthegame

• http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/

Health

• http://medline.cognition.com/

• http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126883.400-beer-marinade-cuts-steak-cancer-risk.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

• healthtalkonline.org/

• youthhealthtalk.org/

• http://applequack.com/2008/09/23/20-ways-surgeons-should-use-evernote/

• Fridgg.com

• http://www.medicalstudentblog.co.uk/twitter-doctors-medical-students-and-medicine-related/

Make a Difference

• http://changingthepresent.org/

• kiva.org/

• http://www.nonamecallingweek.org/

• Change.org

• https://secure1.acuriantrials.com/jsp/facebook/default.html

• http://instedd.org/

• http://classwish.org/

• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rightful-Place-Project/46391575761

Media

• Shoutcast.com

• Blinkbox.com

• Hulu.com: movies

• Hulu.com: television

• http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/

• http://goanimate.com/

• http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/michigan_state_grads_physics_r.html

• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-places-to-watch-documentary-movies-online/

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/

• http://www.surfthechannel.com/cat/61482/a.html

• http://www.freedocumentaries.org/

• http://www.bodocus.com/

• Miro.org ???

• Joost.com

Organization

• http://mustacheinc.com/

• WePlay.com: the place that connects everyone involved in youth sports

• Blist.com ???

• http://www.busymac.com/busycal.html

• http://www.carecalendar.org/

• http://www.listingly.com/

Search

• VisualWikipedia.com ???

• ticTOCs: Journal Table of Contents Service: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

• Otalo.com

• eRideShare.com

• Vimo.com

Social

• Kaboodle.com

• Socialtrak.com

• SocialToo.com

• 97bottles.com

• http://twitter.com/97bottles

• ????

• http://www.labspaces.net/

Tools

• Audible.com

• Booksfree.com

• Amazon.com: Kindle

• Compete: http://www.compete.com/

• http://fototagger.com/

• http://capzles.com/

• Capzles: A Brief History of Apple

• http://www.cogitum.com/co-tracker-text/more.shtml

• http://www.cogitum.com/co-tracker/index.shtml

• http://www.memeorandum.com/

Visualization

• http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/

• http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/coming-of-age-in-a-computer-world

• http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/ordered-comparison-of-popular-vote-b

• http://visualwikipedia.com/en/ for mindmapping

• http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/91756/Nuit_de_l%27enfer%2C_Rimbaud

• http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=Strika

Trends

• PopSci Best of What's New '08: http://www.popsci.com/bown/2008

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/porn-bailout-larry-flynt_n_155878. html

• http://twitter.com/gartner_inc

• “Last year, we said delete emails. This year, we say delete applications!”

Contact Info

• Patricia F Anderson– Emerging Technologies Librarian– University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries– Pfa@umich.edu

• Slides will be at: – http://www.slideshare.com/umhealthscienceslibraries/