Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data. This week ReadWriteWeb will run a series of posts detailing what we think are the five biggest, most cutting-edge Web trends to come out of 2009.
Därför vill alla ha pc som tjänst. De levererar pc till västsvenska sjukhus. U.S. Library of Congress to archive Twitter : Confessions of a Science Librarian. From Twitter, here’s the announcement: Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service?
Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions.We thought it fitting to give the initial heads-up to the Twitter community itself via our own feed @librarycongress. NFC: Never Mind Credit Cards, Pay With Your Phone. One of the emerging trends of the Mobile Web is using your phone to interact with the real world.
We're not just talking about 'checking in' to locations, either. There's a world of more practical functionality that hasn't yet ramped up in the West - using your phone as a payment device (for example mobile ticketing), getting special offers from retailers, downloading data from the Web via 'smart posters' on the street, and more. A key technology driving some of these interactions is NFC, which was one of Gartner's 8 Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010.
Askel kohti avointa julkisdataa – Digitaalinen kirjasto. Podcast/Press Release: Making the business case for digital preservation. The amount of information in our digital universe is expected to double in size every 18 months, according to a recent report – so how do universities choose which of these new information bits to keep and which to discard?
Increasingly, university managers and researchers are looking to justify the cost of preservation alongside other technical and legal issues. Now a new international task force funded by Jisc and other organisations is highlighting examples of current practice in the UK, America and Europe to look at business cases for long term preservation and access. BRTF_Final_Report.pdf (application/pdf Object) Ajankohtaista julkaisuarkistoista – Digitaalinen kirjasto. DCC: A new phase, a new perspective, a new Director. As the DCC begins its third phase today, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Director, Kevin Ashley, who will succeed me upon my retirement in April 2010.
Kevin Ashley has been Head of Digital Archives at the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) since 1997, during which time his multi-disciplinary group has provided services related to the preservation and reusability of digital resources on behalf of other organisations, as well as conducting research, development and training. The group has operated the National Digital Archive of Datasets for The National Archives of the UK for over twelve years, delivering customised digital repository services to a range of organisations. As a member of the JISC's Infrastructure and Resources Committee, the Advisory Council for ERPANET, plus several advisory boards for data and archives projects and services, Kevin has contributed widely to the research information community. So far so press release. Future of internet 2010 - AAAS paper.pdf (application/pdf Object) Twitter Just Passed MySpace in Number of Status Updates.
Twitter made news today for announcing that it now sees an average of 50 million status messages posted each day.
A sharp growth curve indicates that activity on Twitter could grow much higher in the short term future. Good old MySpace says it can't be counted out yet, though. MySpace told me tonight that it still sees 1 billion status messages per month, divided by 30 days that's about 33 million status messages per day. That means until just last Fall, MySpace was still bigger than Twitter. How easy is it to forget that? Above: Quantcast's estimates of website traffic, not including Twitter application use. Eighteenth century correspondence website wins JISC award. The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul. UEF Electronic Publications - Itä-Suomen Yliopiston julkaisut verkossa « FinnOA. N edellisen kokouksen 22.1.2010 muistio « FinnOA. OPM - Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskuksen tehtävät. In praise of words, not books. Speaking writer to readers, I want to register some year-end thoughts on climate change in the realm of reading.
Begin with technology. Canadians can finally buy Kindle e-readers. I know there are people who'd rather these had never got here. They say they'll miss the tactility of print on paper, the rustle of turning pages, etc. Yet this may pass. Sosiaalisen ja perinteisen median rajalla « Verkostouutiset. Kirjoittanut hollanti : 30.12.2009.
5 Enterprise Trends To Watch in 2010: Part 2 - ReadWriteEnterprise. In our first post about trends in the enterprise for the coming year, we looked at five forces that will rise in importance in 2010.
In part two, we picked five more trends that we feel will have importance in the enterprise for the year ahead. The more we look at the space, the more we see how mobile looms over all of these trends. It will help shape IT spending in the years ahead as smart phones and other devices increasingly become part of daily work life. 039;s Top 5 Web Trends of 2009. 2010 Predictions. Every year the ReadWriteWeb team tries its hand at predicting the future.
Looking back at our 2009 predictions, we got some wrong (I predicted that Facebook would sign up to OpenSocial) but others turned out to be on the money. Authority control, then and now : The Book of Trogool. Since the end of the year is a fairly quiet time for my particular professional niche, I’ve taken the opportunity to do some basic name authority control on author name-strings in the repository.
Some basic what on what, now? Welcome back to my series on library information management and jargon. The problem is simple to understand. Consider me as an author. I took my husband’s surname upon marriage; fortunately, I hadn’t published anything previously, but I might have done? Now consider creators whose names are not written in Roman characters. 10 Web trends to watch in 2010. Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried. I've been writing a lot about so-called 'content farms' in recent months - companies like Demand Media and Answers.com which create thousands of pieces of content per day and are making a big impact on the Web.
Both of those two companies are now firmly inside the top 20 Web properties in the U.S., on a par with the likes of Apple and AOL. Big media, blogs and Google are all beginning to take notice. Chris Ahearn, President of Media at Thomson Reuters, recently published an article on how journalism can survive in the Internet age. FR Doc E9-29322. Open Access News. CRIS status.
A New, Now Netbook You Can Actually Buy: PsiXpda.