{"id":138,"date":"2010-04-14T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-04-14T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T09:45:00","slug":"mobile-vs-smartphones-other-links-of-interest-14410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/mobile-vs-smartphones-other-links-of-interest-14410\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile vs Smartphones & other links of interest 14\/4\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mobile vs Smartphones<\/b>
Roy Tennant suggests not making any more mobile websites<\/a> as research suggests more people (in the US) are getting smartphones that can support anything a normal web-browser can support. (Though I don’t know of any smartphone that supports a 1024×768 screensize…) Smartphone applications seem to be trending instead. The iLibrarian rounds up her Top 30 Library iPhone Apps<\/a> (part 2<\/a> and part 3<\/a>). Why an application when you’ve already got a website? Phil Windley points out that “If my bank can get me to download an app, then they have a permanent space on my app list.<\/a>” The trade-off is that whereas a website should work on any browser, smartphone apps often need to be in proprietary formats (the Librarian in Black particularly complains about Apple’s iPhone<\/a> in this respect).<\/p>\n

Web 2.0<\/b>
Common Craft has a 3-minute video explaining “Cloud Computing in Plain English<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries<\/a> and Brown University Library<\/a> provide a “dashboard” of widgets on their websites displaying current statistics about library usage.<\/p>\n

View from the top \ud83d\ude42 <\/b>
The University Librarian at McMaster University Library blogs results from their laptop survey<\/a>. Apparently laptop circulation now accounts for about a third of their total circulation stats; their survey looks into how students are using the laptops.<\/p>\n

The Director of Librarys at the State University of New York at Potsdam blogs about “What I’ve Learned<\/a>” in the first 10 months of her job there.<\/p>\n

Scandal of the week…<\/b>
Barbara Fister summarises recent discussion about EBSCO as the “New Evil Empire” in her Library Journal article “Big vendor frustrations, disempowered librarians, and the ends of empire<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Fun<\/b>
Alice for the iPad – one of the ways technology can enhance the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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