Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Summary of the learning curve
Week 9: Podcasts, Video & ebooks
Podcasts: searched 'libray' keyword on podcastalley.com, got the feed url, put into blogline. Also tried to put into iTune. Podcast is a good way to broadcast audio materials for subscribed user groups.
eBooks: I had a look of Netlibrary (ebooks), 'Downloadable media' (audio books). At downloadable media found 'Mao's last Dancer', there was a movie showing at Sky Cinema, I will definately to have a listen (not look this time) of it :D
Monday, March 15, 2010
Week 8: Online Productivity
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ARkc7ZQbc3xhZGNyc2JyOXZfMGQ2ZGM3cmR3&hl=en
Discovering Web 2.0 Awards: Google maps is not a new stuff anymore, but it is always on my top list of web 2 applications/tools. There are a number of Goolge map mashups (http://mashable.com/2009/01/08/google-maps-mashups-tools/) which are very cool and innovative. The coming of Street View maps are unbeatable. We already have a google map application available on ACL website which gives customer better idea of where we are and even has the "Get Directions" functionality. A GPS tracking function can be applied to google maps as well.
Week 7: Wikis
Thsi blog URL has been added to PB Wiki :-)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati
Technorati: I just added this blog to Technorati. Honestly, I don't really like the website of Technorati. There are too many ads on this site and make it like a dentist website (ha-ha, I keep seeing a number of dental ads). Tagging can be done when claiming a blog.
Library 2.0: By reading Chip Nilges's 'To more powerful ways to cooperate' (http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/4.htm), I really agree with the point "release lightweight services". So I guess in the next few year, libraries (digital prospective) would focus on building open web services and provide open API for web users/developers. All those sort of services can be easily integrated into partner websites. Digital NZ is a good example to share contents.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Week 5: LibraryThing & Rollyo
Rollyo. Well, it seems from yesterday the Rollyo service is down, I will come back to it later on. :-)