Online ResearchWhat’s on the Horizon

What We’ll Cover

•2009 Horizon Report—6 Trends• Mobiles• Cloud Computing• Geo-Everything• Personal Web• Semantic-Aware Applications• Smart Objects

•Best of the Web•Productivity Tools

Horizon ReportPart One:

About the Horizon Report

•Due to impact Educational institutions between 1-5 years

•Explanation of each trend with sample web site

http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki

Mobiles

•Adoption time: 1 year or less•Example: iPhone

Examples of Mobile

•TinEye Music•Shazam•MobileEDU•QuickGraph•SpaceTime 3.0

Cloud Computing

•Adoption time: 1 year or less•Example: Gmail (Maret)

Examples of Cloud Computing

•Google Apps•Flickr•Earth Browser

Interactive

Geo Everything

•Adoption time: 1 year or less•Example: Drop.io/dropiolocation

Examples of Geo-Everything

•World Mapper•GoogleLitTrips•Drop.io Location

Personal Web

•Adoption Time 2-3 years (or less?)•Example: delicious.com

Examples of Personal Web

•Delicious•Smart History•About Lib300

Semantic-Aware Applications

•Adoption time: 4-5 years•Example: SearchMonkey

Examples of Semantic-Aware Apps•Twine•True Knowledge•Hakia•Worldmapper

Smart Objects

•Adoption time: 4-5 years•Example: RFID smart tags

Examples of Smart Objects

•ThinkeringSpace•Touchatag and Violets mirror•iPhone in Education

Productivity ToolsPart Two:

Notetaking

•Noodle Tools•Evernote

Others•Zotero•Google Docs•Ubernote•Yojimbo (Mac)

Tasks/To Do Lists

•Remember the Milk

Others•Outlook Tasks•Todoist

Social Bookmarking/Tagging

•Delicious

Others•Diigo•Firefox Bookmarks

Homepage/News/RSS

•Google Reader

Others•Netvibes•Google News• iGoogle

Browsers

•Firefox

Others• Internet Explorer•Safari•Google Chrome

File-Sharing

•Dropbox•Dropio

Other Social Networks

•Goodbooks•Shelfari•Library Thing

•Ning•Friend Feed•Twitter

Best of the WebPart Two

Selected Web sites

•For a list of recommended websites, go to:

http://delicious.com/ncs.library/bestofweb2009