News of the Day:

Tech TrendsKelli Staley

Barrington Area LibraryMarch 1, 2007

Major Trends

• Applications Move to the Internet• Collaboration• Productivity• Content Sharing• Content Creation

Applications Move to the Internet

• Calendars• Word Processing• Spreadsheets• Instant Messaging

Google Calendar

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Meebo

Meebo-mine

Next Generation Searching

• ChaCha• Retrievr• Blinkx• Technorati• Podscope• Podzinger

ChaCha

Retrievr

Blinkx

Technorati

Podscope

Podzinger

Productivity

• RSS Aggregators– Text– Audio

IE7

Firefox

Bloglines

Bloglines-mine

Juice

Productivity

• Bookmarking

Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us-ks

Content Sharing

• Blogs• Flickr• Podcasts• YouTube

Blogs-obama

Blogs-lpl

Blogs-white house

Flickr

Flickr-mine

Podcasts

• Listen on your computer

• …or on your MP3 player

Downloaded a Podcast?• Some 12% of

internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time.

• Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project

YesNo

Podcasts-obama

Podcasts-white house

Podcasts-pickle

You Tube

Content Creation

• Blogs• Podcasts• Screencasts

Blogs-blogger

Podcasts-audacity

Screencasts-wink

Trends on the Rise

• Screencasting• MP3s & Streaming

Media• VOIP• Visualization• Wikis

• Portable Applications

Grokker

itunes

Skype

Wikipedia

Wiki How

Portable Apps

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