25 Technologies Every Librarian Should Know About
based on a Web Seminar given by Stephen Abram of SirsiDynix Institute November 2006
Avatars
Blinkx
Blogs
Endeca
Facebook
Folksonomies
Google Office
Instant Messaging
Instant Messaging: Meebo, Trillian and GAIM
LibraryThing
MP3
MySpace
Photo Blogs
Photo Sharing
Podcasting
Retrievr
RSS
Second Life
Singingfish
Skype
Streaming Media
Tag Clouds
Tags
Virtual Reference
Visualization
Wikis
YouTube
Social Networking
Avatars (15)
Avatarity
Avatar: Wikipedia
Librarian Trading Cards
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Blinkx (25)
Blinkx
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Blogs (3)
Professors Who Blog
The Long Trail: Blog
Blogiversity.org
Google Blogscoped
BusinessPundit
Blog Business World
Business Blog Consulting
B2 Day: Business 2.0 Blog
Open Stacks
OPL Plus
Thomson Peterson's--Syndication for Higher Ed
Thomson Peterson's--
Biblioblender
The Jeff Pulver Blog
The Intelligent Agent Blog
HigherEd Blog
Bloglines
Blogster
Technorati Blog Finder: Business
The Best Business Information Blogs
The Best Business Blogs
Best Financial Blogs
Forbes: Blogs
Business Library Blog
50 Popular Science Blogs
Catalogablog
Wireless Libraries Blog
Intelligent Agent
IWR Blog
Digital Reference
Panlibus
Library Garden
Strategic Librarian
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Endeca (22)
Endeca Search, Information Access, and Guided Navigation Solutions
Endeca Information Access Platform
Endeca at NCSU Libraries
Going Beyond Google: Fortune
Endeca: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
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Facebook (19)
Facebook
The Benefits of Facebbook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Network Sites
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Folksonomies (24)
Folksonomies: Cooperative Classification and Communication through Shared Metadata
Folksonomies Tap People Power
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Google Office (10)
Google Documents and Spreadsheets
Google Documents and Spreadsheets with a shorter URL
Google Calendar
Google Makes its Move: Office 2.0
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Instant Messaging (11)
Yahoo Instant Messenger
MSN Web Messenger
AIM.com (AOL Instant Messenger)
irc.org
icq
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Instant Messaging: Meebo, Trillian and GAIM (12)
Meebo
Cerulean Studios: Creators of Trillian and Trillian Pro Instant Messengers
Pidgin
SorceForge.net: Pidgin (used to be called GAIM)
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LibraryThing (21)
LibraryThing: Catalog Your Books Online
LibraryThing Blog
LibraryThing Creates the World's Worst Recommendation Engine
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MP3 (8)
MP3 Music Downloads
MP3-Wikipedia
How MP3 Files Work
What is MP3? A Definition from the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
How MP3 Players Work
Overdirve
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MySpace (18)
MySpace
Hennepin County Library
Thomas Ford Memorial Library
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenberg County
Brooklyn College Library
Lansing Public Library
Morrisville College Libraries
Westmount PL
Goshen PL
University of Illinois Undergrad Library
Albany County PL
UT Austin Library
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Photo Blogs (5)
Photoblogs.org
Cool Photoblogs
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Photo Sharing Sites (4)
Flickr
Picasa
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Podcasting (17)
PodcatcherMatrix
Juice the cross-platform podcast receiver
jPodder Podcasting Software
Newsgator Feedstation
Doppler: Redefining Podcasting
UC Santa Cruz Library Podcast Resources
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Retrievr
Retrievr
Retrievr: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more from Technorati
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RSS (1)
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Second Life (14)
Second Life
What is Second Life?
Second Life: Wikipedia
Linden Lab Makers of Second Life
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Singingfish (25)
R.I.P. Singingfish, We'll Miss Ya!
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Skype (20)
Skype Internet Calls
About Skype
Skype Blogs
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Streaming Media (9)
Streaming Media World
A Streaming Media Primer
Streaming Media Sites
What is streaming? A Word Definition from Webopedia Computer Dictionary
SpiralFrog
SpiralFrog: Blogs, Photos Videos and more on Technorati
Podzinger: The World's Premiere Audio and Video Search Engine
Podzinger: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
Podscope: THe Audio Video search Engine
Podscope: Blogs, Photos Videos and more on Technorati
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Tag Clouds (24)
How to Make a Tag Cloud
Tag Cloud: Wikipedia
In Search of the Perfect Tag Cloud
Many Eyes: Tag Cloud Guide
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Tags (6)
del-icio.us
Livemarks
Stumbleupon
Wists: Social Shopping
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Virtual Reference (23)
LiveRef(sm): A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services
Babel: A Data Browser
Digital Reference Guidelines
1999 ARL Survey Report on Electronic Reference
The Teaching Librarian: Exploring the Intersection of Reference Services, Technology and Instruction
Guidelines for Implementing and Maintaining Virtual Reference Services
Digital Academic Library Report:Creating the Virtual Reference Service
Collaborative Live Reference Service
DREI: Digital Reference Education Initiative
The People's Network: Online Services from England's Public Libraries
Index of Chat Reference Services
Online Reference in Library Success
Virtual Reference Software Comparative Review-- Jody Condit Fagan
Virtual Reference Adventure: Choose Your Own Experience
Meebo: IM Chat Virtual Reference Tool
Plugoo: IM Chat Virtual Reference Tool
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Visualization (13)
Touchgraph
Touchgraph Example
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Wikis (2)
OPAL Podcast
Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars: Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool
Wikipedia
Definition of Wiki: Wikipedia
AVC Science Wiki
Science Fair Projects--Wiki
SEEK Wiki
VMT (Virtual Math Teams) Wiki
Library Success--A Best Practices Wiki
LISWiki
Syndication for Higher Ed: Marketing, News, Information, and Media Oriented
Thomson Peterson's-Podcasts
Academic Podcasts: available free online
Government Podcasts
Squeet
The Original Wiki
SwitchWiki or the Wiki Index
L'Wiki: WikiFarms
SeedWiki
ELSUA: A Knowledge Management Blog
WikiWax,the Index to Wikipedia
Wikipedia quality survey
Wikieval
Ohio University Libraries Biz Wiki
Wyoming Authors Wiki
Wiki Creation Tools
PBwiki
Wikispaces
MediaWiki
Tikiwiki Community Portal
WikiMatrix: Compare them all
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YouTube (7)
YouTube
YouTube: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
Pages tagged with "youtube" on del.icio.us
Web Video Cheat Sheet
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Social Networks
A Major-Major New Report on Social Networking commissioned by Fox Interactive Media
List of Social Networking Websites
Nature Network
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last updated: June 24, 2008