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MOBILETRENDS TODAY &

TOMORROWPresenter: Diana Silveira

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 Dropbox

Banking Fundraising Shopping Account Tracking MP3 Player Pictures Videos GPS

What are libraries doing?Mobile Catalogs

• Notifications • Databases• Reference• Card Readers

Mobile Services…

QR Codes: they are everywhere and you’ve never noticed them!

http://guides.ccclib.org/qr

Geo-Awareness or Physical Social Networks

Coming soon…?

E-couponing time/location based Loyality-based

The next step…Augmented Reality

AmazonMobile Snaptell RedLaser Barcodescan pic2shop

Reality Tagging & Recognition

Advertising Wikitude Layar Cylopedia TwittaRound PolarRose SREngine

RedLaser

What are the library implications?

Implementing Mobile Would you use it? Who do you want to use it? How will they use it? Is the purpose clear? Perpetual or single campaign? Is it dynamic? Useful? User-

friendly? Is it a “silo”? Development

Design for 4-5 phones only Use Emulators

Prepare for success Analyze your data

Questions that will always linger?

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?

What do you see in

the future?

Coming soon (already here?)

E-ticketing E-paper Instant Translation Nano-technology – physical personal

device Medical records as software Who owns your content? Your

datastream? Replace computers

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