New Frontiers: Web Based Software and Free Digital Storage

Slide 1: New Frontier: Web Based Software and Free Digital Storage It’s web-based and it’s free

Slide 2: Why is everything free? 75% of all U.S. Adults, 92% of all 18-29 year olds* Advertising, Marketing, Branding and Brand Extension 2 tiers of service: Free > ads ---- Paid > no ads Software as a Service (SaaS) model *Pew Internet & American Life Project: Who’s online http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/User_Demo_2.15.08.htm What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 3: More Power = More More speed Excess capacity The ability to offer larger scale services What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 4: All this power gives rise to multiple uses for all this computing power. It is frequently referred to as Cloud Computing but the definition of just what is exactly is in flux. A capacity for widely distributed networks, supplying supercomputer access through the internet is the most general definition. What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 5: Added capacity in the various datacenters has created ever cheaper storage. It enabled the creation of free to the consumer content based information services such as: Google Books, Flickr, iTunes, Internet Archive and YouTube One of the offshoots of this technology is a transformation of software into web-based applications. What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 6: The ability to word process, edit images and store personal data and information will transform how we use the internet. We can become cyber-nomads. Without any tangible personal financial investment. What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 7: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071218/saas-study/ What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 8: Web-Based Email What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 9: Word Processing Google http://docs.google.com/ Zoho http://www.zoho.com/ Star Office (download needed, through Google Pack) What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 10: 3 Products Offered Workspace What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 11: Products Offered Storage What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 12: Products Offered pack.google.com What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 13: Image Editing See: http://tinyurl.com/4wg43l What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 14: Storage http://skydrive.live.com/ http://www.fileqube.com/ http://www.flipdrive.com/ http://www.getgspace.com/index.html Gspace – Firefox extension What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 15: Proceed with Caution ! Free isn’t Free OF Read the Service Agreements and O Privacy Policies P Look for Opt-in and Opt-out buttons during sign-up Create a separate email address/es What’s Hot & What’s Not: Trends in Technologies and Services in Libraries ARLIS/NA May 4, 2008

Slide 16: For links and citations go to: http://tinyurl.com/5jcvfu or http://www.smpl.org/classes/WebImageEditing/ARLISCites.htm Adina Lerner Santa Monica Public Library adina.lerner@smgov.net