Technology Extravaganza: New Web Sites and Applications that Show Promise for the Library World

Laura Kaspari Hohmann

Information Resource Officer

US Embassy Warsaw

What is Web 2.0?

Second-generation of web-based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users

Emphasis is on participation, publication, socialization, sharing, and the web as platform

Users are much more involved in the web

Web 2.0 technologies

Blogs Bookmarking &Tagging Collaboration & Productivity RSS Wikis SMS/Instant Messaging (IM) Social Networking Sites Photo Sharing Audio & Video Gaming/Virtual Reality

Blogs

User-generated websites that are frequently updated

Can be personal or informational Contain journal style entries that appear in

reverse chronological order Readers can leave comments

Bookmarking & Tagging

http://del.icio.us/

http://citeulike.org/

Collaboration & Productivity Tools

Google Docs & Spreadsheetshttp://docs.google.com/

http://zoho.com/

RSS

RSS – Real Simple Syndication

XML-based system that allows users to subscribe to their favorite websites and blogs and to keep up without having to go to each of the sites and check to see if there’s new content.

RSS is used for text, audio, and video files.

RSS in Action

RSS is easier to understand if you use it.

To get started, you’ll need an RSS Reader / Aggregator– Google Reader http://reader.google.com/– RSS Speed http://www.rssspeed.pl/– My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com/– NewsGator http://www.newsgator.com/– FeedReader http://feedreader.com/

Wikis

http://wikipedia.org

http://www.libsuccess.org/

SMS/Instant Messaging

Yahoo Messenger http://messenger.yahoo.com/

AOL Instant Messenger http://www.aim.com/

MSN Messenger http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

Meebo http://www.meebo.com/

Twitter http://twitter.com/

Social Networking Sites

MySpacehttp://myspace.com

Facebookhttp://facebook.com

Gronohttp://grono.net

MySpace Library Shot

Library Specific Web 2.0 Tools

LibraryThinghttp://www.librarything.com/

Library Elfhttp://www.libraryelf.com/

Photosharing

Flickrhttp://flickr.com

Audio & Video Sharing Sites

Odeo http://odeo.com

Blinkx http://blinkx.com

YouTube http://youtube.com

Streemo http://streemo.pl/Portal/Default.aspx

Gaming & Virtual Reality

Dance Dance Revolution

Second Lifehttp://secondlife.com

(See an introductory video about Second Life at:http://sl.nmc.org/2006/06/12/seriously-engaging-movie/)

Dance Dance Revolution

From Web 2.0 to Library 2.0

How can your library use these tools?

Questions?

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Thank you!

hohmannlk@state.gov