Thinking Ahead: News 2.0 Stephen Abram, VP, Innovation May 17, 2006

News Priorities Community Advertising Information Entertainment

Preparing for the Inevitable

The Scary re- wiring of the Millennials and post-Millennials

Usability The A frame adopted from newspaper layout is not what works. Eyetools

Wow! 150,00-250,000 A DAY!

Teen SL Library services meeting, Sun 5/7/06

Second Life Library Reading Room

Second Life Library

Second Life Library eBooks

The Long Tail of QUESTIONS libraries

Great Expectations The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet!

Expectations 1.0 Search Retrieve View Print Link Navigate Read...

Pandora

Darlene Fichter, 2006

WEB 2.0 RSS – really simple syndication

WEB 2.0 Wikis

WEB 2.0 New Programming Tools: AJAX, API, Mash-ups, Java, widgets, wizards

WEB 2.0 Blogs and blogging

WEB 2.0 Commentary and comments

WEB 2.0 Personalization and My Profiles

WEB 2.0 Podcasting, P2P and MP3 files

WEB 2.0 Streaming Media – audio and video

Video iPod etc.

WEB 2.0 Reviews and User-driven Ratings

WEB 2.0 Recommender Functionality

WEB 2.0 Personalized Alerts

WEB 2.0 Web Services

WEB 2.0 Instant Messaging and Virtual Reference

WEB 2.0 Device Neutral and Independent

Nano Phone, Cardphones,...

Google invests in wired … wireless A $189,000, pilot

Bidirectional wireless module Hydro Broadband Toronto

WEB 2.0 Folksonomies, Tagging and Tag Clouds Visualization

WEB 2.0 Photos (e.g. Flickr, Picasa)

WEB 2.0 Social Networking

WEB 2.0 Socially Driven Content

Bag of URLs Blogmarks Del-icio.us Feed Me Links Frassle Linkfilter Livemarks Stumble Upon Wists Dude, Check This Out! openIBM Simpy Flickr FURL Spurl Connotea Unalog CiteULike (ArXiv) (Merlot) Links Web Pages Scholarly General Tag User Content Creator Source: DLIB

WEB 2.0 Open Access, Open Source, Open Content

WEB 2.0 Social Bookmarking

Library 2.0 Learning Community Productivity

Librarian 2.0 The Guru of the Information Age!

Librarian 2.0 Understands the power of the Web 2.0 opportunities

Librarian 2.0 Is device independent and uses and delivers to everything from laptops to Smartphones to PDAs to iPods

Librarian 2.0 Connects people and technology and information in context

Librarian 2.0 Doesn’t shy away from non- traditional cataloguing and classification and chooses tagging, folksonomies and user-driven content descriptions where appropriate.

Librarian 2.0 Embraces non-textual information and the power of pictures, moving images, sight and sound

Librarian 2.0 Understands the ‘long tail’ and leverages the power of old and new content

Librarian 2.0 Sees the potential in using content sources like the Open Content Alliance, Google Print and OpenWorldCat

Librarian 2.0 Connects users up to expert discussions, conversations and communities of practice and participates there as well

Librarian 2.0 Uses and develops advanced social networks to enterprise advantage

Librarian 2.0 Connects with everyone using their communication mode of choice – telephone,mail, print, Skype, IM, SMS, e- mail, virtual reference, etc.

Librarian 2.0 Encourages user driven metadata and user developed content and commentary

Librarian 2.0 Understands the wisdom of crowds and the real roles and impacts of the blogosphere, web syndicasphere and wikisphere

Librarian 2.0 Understands their users at a deep level – not just as pointers and clickers

Librarian 2.0 Librarian 2.0 is where the user is, when the user is there. This is an immersion environment.

Librarian 2.0 Librarian 2.0 plays.

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