Google social networking 2.0

With two losses going googles way, with being fined by the FTC for privacy concerns with Google Buzz and a loss with the google books. Google hopes that their new social networking will attract Facebook users as google and Facebook are rivals in recent times. Will people such as Rachael Troianos actually jump to google's +1? we will see.

Website building

It is great that I am going to be building a website. I have actually been interested in doing this for a while now and finally have a free page to do those on. It will be helpful for the future and possibl lead me to buying a cheap domain so that in the future I can have my own website. Let's just hope my project looks good

Phones as Credit Cards

Hopefully less people will be losing there phone or breaking it. Though a far way from becoming a replacement for credit cards, smart phones will now be able to be swiped and used as a credit card. Though the article I read stated that this has already been adopted overseas, it seems the one usual suspect is keeping this technology back from use in the United States. Yes, that would be major corporate players all trying to get as much money as they can out of this technology. Who will control it? The phone carriers, the credit card companies, the banks, payment networks, technology companies...I guess once this is figured out we can reach this new millennium of no wallet necessary but not yet.

New York Times Online Now for Paying

As the New York Times online has posted the new plan for payment options, one has to wonder where they will leave libraries. Will libraries get a discount rate or a bulk rate? I have not read anything about this, well because it is a fairly new system. There are many people who get their news from the New York Times and barring any kind of feelings on whether this is a good move or not, one has to wonder if more people will be expecting the libraries to have these subscriptions. If a library has a subscription to the print form then they will get online privileges, but does this mean as many computers as they want or is it a one to one ratio?

Technology on the New York Times

If you look at the New York Times all the rage surrounds the iPad2 these days and in what seems unanimous appeal, the iPad2 is the winner in the race for most articles and no one knows why. My favorite part to reading this section is that most people do not know why they are writing about this, but they are. There is even an article talking about the whole appeal to the iPad being about emotions and attachments. I think the iPad is a fine tool to have, in addition to netbooks, I never got the extreme need of netbooks, but at the same time I am sure having one could provide you with a handy tool. At the same time I find it silly to spend all of one section as well as news sections devoted to a device, no matter how cool or thin.

GPS and Library Books

A lot of thought has been going into the idea of having GPS technology put into libraries, specifically books. I think there is a big benefit of this technology, though I do not know the cost analysis and if it is actually worth the price. If the price was right then I think this would be a great investment for libraries to have. The ability to help people locate books on their own would be great and give librarians time to do other things, also if a book is lost then there is the potential to figure out where it is. Though, if a book is stolen or missing, what would be proper protocol for finding it anyways unless it was on library premises. This technology can also lead to having programming in libraries that use the gps service, which might have some interesting results. Overall, I would have to be in support of this type of research and potential, with ebooks becoming popular, this is a good way to relate both old technologies (books, etc) and new technologies (smart phones, etc).

Free Speech and the Internet

As guardians of free speech and long time defenders of free speech (which includes checking out materials) librarians need to figure out a way to deal with the internet within libraries and protecting free speech still. This goes for searches, downloads and other materials. Also, with sites like Twitter and Facebook, that do not guarantee free speech, do they pose issues or threats that need to be dealt with. Whereas some US corporations on the internet say they protect free speech on the web, others do not. Is this an area of programming that would be good to do. Is it necessary to know what sites provide a "free speech" platform and what do not.

Devices and the Internet

The iPad2 was shown recently and Steve Jobs came back to do the honors. It seems as if the iPad2 is going for the end all be all tablet focusing heavily on being an easy communication device as well as being able to haul it around anywhere. There is no real competition out there even compared by price and what you get. While I am not promoting Apple or the iPad in anyway it will be interesting to see how they control the market in the tablet market and how this will effect libraries. Obviously people will bring in these devices to libraries and either want help with them or have some kind of question in regards to an iPad.