mobile tools today and tomorrow

MOBILE TOOLS

TODAY AND TOMORROW

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First Mobile Phone

What do people use cell phones for?

simpsons

SMS/Texting

Social Networking

Twitter Facebook Skype Delicious Email IM/ Google Wave

Ebooks

Kindle for iphone Project Gutenburg FreeBooks Classics2Go Readdle

Cloud Computing

Google Docs PDF EverNote

And don’t forget… Banking Fundraising Account

Tracking MP3 Player Pictures Videos GPS

What do you do?

What should libraries be doing? Mobile Catalogs Mobile Notifications Databases Reference – IM, AAL Mobile, Text

Messaging What else?

On the horizon…

The next step ….Augmented Reality AmazonMobile Snaptell RedLaser barcodescan

And the next step…augmented reality

Advertising Wikitude Layar Cylopedia TwittaRound PolarRose SREngine

What are the library implications?

Implementing Mobile Would you use it? Who do you want to use

it? Is the feature clear? Development

Design for 4-5 phones only

Use Emulators

Texting – when, where and about what?

Should you text when with others?

Who makes the first call? The first tweet? The first text?

Cell Phones in libraries?

Questions that will always linger?

What do you see in the future?

Coming soon (already here?) E-couponing E-ticketing E-paper Instant Translation Nano-technology – physical personal

device Who owns your content? Your

datastream? Replace computers

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