Posts Tagged ‘ iphone ’

Top Ten Links Week 4

January 29, 2010
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Top Ten Links Week 4

My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 1/22/2010 thru 1/28/2010 “Your Brain Can’t Handle Your Facebook Friends” – great article from Mashable using Dunbar’s Number to explain why you can’t keep up with more than 150 Facebook Friends. I’m guess that applies to Twitter as well. Social Technology & an Innovative Intranet can Increase Employee Productivity give stats & examples, reminds me I need to finish my follow up post to Control is an Illusion You Need to Let Go “from social media to social action: when awareness isn’t enough.” – remember while social media helps create awareness of issues, awareness does not equal action. No retweeting or sharing on Facebook does not count as action, despite what all the women who posted their bra color might think. you buy wine, kids get books, its win win for everybody, even if its bad wine you can give it as gifts – nuf said iPad is iBad for freedom – from Free Software Foundation – a must read if you care about DRM & open source & open access. While you’re at it read these: 8 Things That Suck About the iPad and The Problem

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Dreaming, Designing, & Using Mobile Library Platforms

October 28, 2009
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Dreaming, Designing, & Using Mobile Library Platforms

Notes from the 2009 Internet Librarian Conference Tom Ipri Jason Griffey R. Toby Greenwalt Jason A. Clark Matt Benzing Michael P Sauers Christa Burns Mike & Christa – phone or lab top questions Tom – mobile sights are not desktop-light Let’s not make crappy mobile sights out of our crappy websites. Should you have a mobile site? What is your population, is this the time you need to have a mobile site What should be on the site? Mobile web is mobile, text based; people aren’t there to just browse & browse they are looking for something specific Remember there are many different types of phone, not everyone has an iphone Web test is brief mobile site should be uber brief Simple navigation Even good connections can be slow Essential information Mobile usability mobile webs of 2009 is = to desktop web of 1998 Desk top success rate 80% Movie success 64% – success increased when used a site designed for mobile browsing, better phones preformed better Jason Clark Mobile apps for libraries Native app vs mobile apps Native apps – install on phone or devise, access to hardware, speakers, camera etc Distributed through a controlled site Mobile apps –

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