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Joe MurphyNorth Carolina Public Library Director’s Meeting8/24/2011Blowing Rock, NC

“26 Lessons from a 26 Year Old CEO”http://blogs.forbes.com/yec/2011/07/25/26-lessons-from-a-26-year-old-ceo/

Communication Trends, techs, & opportunities

http://blog.lab42.com/generation-text-teens-and-their-texting-habits

For the first time ever … the Growth of Text Messaging Has Slowed “Growth in the volume of text messaging is slowing sharply, just as new threats emerge to that lucrative source of wireless carrier profits.” - Still more than 1 trillion texts sent in 2nd half of 2010. Avg texts/month/user = 2,110. - But the smallest semi annual increase (8.7%) ever. “Carriers Sweat as Texting Cools Off.” Wall Street journal Technologyhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304778304576373860513481364.html?KEYWORDS=sms What’s changing? •Apple’s new messaging service •Shift twds data for mobile communication • Group Messaging apps • FB/Twitter

Skype acquires GroupMe “Both companies are focused on changing the way the world communicates” http://blog.groupme.com/post/9226372737/dearest-groupme-groupies-we-have-very-exciting "It means furthering the breaking down of - Skype’s Chief Executive Tony Bates – barriers to global communications." Quoted by Wall Street Journal“The group messaging space in general is oneof the most important markets for Skype,” “GroupMe creates a very sticky instant feeling. Like Skype, it is an everyday interactive form of communication. Skype’s goal is to get to 1 billion users. Mobile is the place to do that.” http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/21/skype-to-acquire-year-old-group-messaging-service-groupme/

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/mobile-apps-beat-the-mobile-web-among-us-android-smartphone-users/“Mobile Apps Beat the Mobile Web Among USAndroid Smartphone Users”

... or to put it another way

“Free-to-play Revenue Overtakes Premium Revenue in the App Store” - http://blog.flurry.com/bid/65656/Free-to- play-Revenue-Overtakes-Premium-Revenue- in-the-App-Store “Virtual Currency Beats All Other Kinds of Mobile Game Purchases” – Mashable by Christina Warren 8/17/11 http://mashable.com/2011/08/16/mobile-game-in-app-purchases/“According to Flurry, 68% of in-app game purchases are forconsumable goods, with virtual currency purchases (think games likeFarmVille and Smurf Village) being by far the most popular type ofconsumable good.”

http://t.co/au2XlBi

More people send pictures than emailhttp://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Cell-Phones/Section-2/Focus-on-Smartphone-Owners.aspx

• Fully 79% of smartphone owners say that they used theirphones to quickly access information they needed …• On the list of common smartphone frustrations, slowdownload speeds outpace small screens and tricky textentry.• Smartphone owners can be at a loss without their mobiledevices. One third of smartphone owners (34%) have hadtrouble doing something in the past 30 days because theydid not have their phone with them.• Don’t bother me, I’m on my phone. One in fivesmartphone owners (20%) say that they have used theirphone to avoid interacting with people around them in thepreceding 30 days.

Microsoft Faces the Post-PC WorldNow 25 Years Old, Windows Sales Slow as iPad Gains; Lowest Market Share in TwoDecades—82%http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903885604576486343139938136.html#ixzz1V7OYmAPW “Goldman Sachs, in a research report from April, estimated that tablet computers such as the iPad will remain "highly cannibalistic" to traditional PCs, stealing 35% and 33% of sales in 2011 and 2012, respectively. “ Read http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903885604576486343139938136. html#ixzz1V7QGjJ6y “86% of Fortune 500 companies are deploying or testing iPads” Windows 8 will be more Tablet friendly, “redesigned to run better on touch-screen computers”

http://blog.gist.com/2011/08/09/the-mobile-workstyle-infographic/

“A patient check-inapp. FGive patients iPads inthe waiting room.Replace paperclipboards”

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-birth-of-the-irestaurant-2011-8

Content

“20.4 percent of the worldwide Internetpopulation” visited Amazon Sites in June http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/8/Amazon_Sites _Visited_by_1_in_5_Global_Internet_Users_in_June

http://www.kno.com/

Bringing the textbook to life & “redefining how you learn”http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/kno-turns-textbooks-3d-video/

Kno answers the question of “How do you make a digital textbook more than just a glorified PDF on a tablet?” http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/kno- turns-textbooks-3d-video/ Quizme features turns in-text diagrams into instant quizzes Journal feature: add notes, highlights, audio notes, pics, videos reminders, and more

http://mashable.com/2011/08/22/khan-academy-kno/

http://www.visual-editions.com/about-us/what “The idea for VE comes from our joint love of books and a (mischievous) desire to do things differently, so that everything we do translates into a new experience for our readers, and for all the writers and designers we work with. “http://www.visual-editions.com/our-books/book/composition-no1“An iPad Art Book You Read On "Shuffle“”In answer to the “large divide betweentext-driven literary books on the onehand and picture-driven art and designbooks on the other”

To facilitate conversation. Because the real role of the library is helping to make connections.http://www.canada.com/life/story.html?id=5266639

Acquired by Facebook

All Things Dhttp://allthingsd.com/20110724/flipboard-and-conde-nast-partner-in-brand-ads-deal-on-social-reading-app/?mod=ATD_iphone

“fine-grained control over the torrent of daily information”http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readings_wants_to_be_your_only_daily_reading_app.php A single news feed No mobile app … yet

Pandora for book recommendations Booklamp - http://beta.booklamp.org/

http://zapd.com/ Publish individual sites from mobile “It will start from your phone. Not the other way around.” - CEO Kelly Smith http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/zapd/

http://www.blurb.com/mobile

Not just self publishing through Amazon - “Amazon Is a Book Publisher For Reals Now” http://gizmodo.com/5831785/amazon-is-a-book-publisher-for-reals-nowhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/technology/amazon-set-to-publish-tim-ferriss.html?_r=1

http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/NFLX/1335464394x0x485533/e230e7dc-cb82-4175-b944-d9ddc3c0960c/July%20Investor%20Letter%201130am.pdf http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/netflix-75-percent-new-customers-streaming/

“Google Videos Brings Movie Rentals toAndroid Phones” -http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/google-videos-brings-movie-rentals-to-android-phones/

“The music has changed from ownership to anywhere access and sharing of that music” – Daniel Ek Spotify CEO http://gigaom.com/2011/07/14/daniel-ek- on-spotify/“Sharing, begets more sharing and it begets more listening ofmusic and that powerful loop is the life force of Spotify.” “we want music to become like water” – EK

1.4 million U.S. users for its free trial 175,000 paying U.S. subscribers in less than a month http://allthingsd.com/20110808/spotifys-u- s-score-so-far-1-4-million-users-175000- paying-customers/http://blog.onavo.com/2011/08/spotify-data-aware-us-onavo-report

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/08/astronaut-suicide-photos-inspired-by-shuttle-programs-end/

600 million checkins 3 million check ins/dayhttps://foursquare.com/10million

http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/08/18/foursquare_events/

Deeper integration of photos into mobile Foursquare stream

“iCondom is the only international app foriPhone that locates the condom dispensersnearest to you and shows you their locationson a map. You can rate and comment ondispensers so that others will have up-to-dateinformation on the quality of the dispenser”http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icondom-your-condom-dispenser/id397179684?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4#

Location as aspect to … everythinghttp://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/okcupid-integrates-location-based-dating-into-ios-and-android-apps/

Facebook Deals

More use of location for content discovery “With the explosion of app downloads and digital versions of books — the kinds of content that we already love to curate and help our customers discover through Starbucks Digital Network — this is a great time to expand an already successful program,” Adam Brotman, vice president of digital ventures at Starbucks http://mashable.com/2011/08/22/starbucks-pick-of-the-week/ “many different ways that we can enhance our customers experience through content,”What it means: - access as reward- content as point of engagement- third party collaborations to enhance experience- new role of place in discovery http://socialbarrel.com/starbucks-apple-join-forces-to-give-away-free-iphone-apps- in-the-us/13993/

20 Million+ people on Google+ https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/dRtqKJCbpZ7?hl=en “over 1 billion items shared and received in a single day”

… in just three weekshttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904233404576460394032418286.html

“Google Agrees To Buy Motorola Mobility For $12.5B” -http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110815-708280.html“Google just bought itself patent protection”- http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20092399-266/google-just-bought-itself-patent-protection/

http://www.google.com/wallet/

“2011 and 2012 are expected tobe “banner years for NFC servicerollouts.”” - Juniper Research - http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/juniper-nfc-payments-to-reach-50-billion- worldwide-by-2014/

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1749114 4 vs. 1 year discrepancy “the transaction value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions will reach $670 billion by 2015” - Leena Raohttp://techcrunch.com/2011/07/05/mobile-payments-to-triple-to-670b-by-2015-digital-goods-will-represent-40-of-transactions/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovxA35hQ058PayPal NFC phone to phone Mobile Payments

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wireless_mobile_payments_to_reach_85_of_pos_termin.php

New Skype appfor paying for wifiby the minute

QR Codes for Mobile payments http://vimeo.com/26927655 Lower barriers to entry than NFC?

The end of the wallet? – The rise of mobile payments “We believe that by 2015 digital currency will be accepted everywhere in the U.S. – from your local corner store to Walmart. We will no longer need to carry a wallet.” - Scott Thompson, President, PayPal. Upon PayPal passing 100 million active accounts.https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/06/paypal-crosses-first-100-million-active-accounts-4/

Point of saleTech opps

Flickr took almost 2 years to reach 100 million photos

http://thomashawk.com/2011/08/flickr-is-dead.html “Flickr’s lack of innovation is a crime that’s punishable by death — and we the jury are voting with where we choose to host our photos.” - Frederick Van Johnson, the host of the popular photography podcast, This Week in Photo (TWiP) - http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/flickr- not-dead-but-losing-the-soul-of-photo-sharing/“A commenter named Jolene compared Flickr to an ex-beau. “It’s still outthere… you remember how much in love you once were, how youthought it was going to be forever. Eventually, you grew apart.”” -http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/flickr-not-dead-but-losing-the-soul-of-photo-sharing/

100 million photos added Flickr took 2 years to hit this milestone 860,000 added every dayhttp://techcrunch.com/2011/06/13/instagram-five-million-users/

“A fun, simple way to share who you are with” “With is Path’s acknowledgement that people love sharing photos and who they’re with” http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/path-with-twitter/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmB15ER3LUQ&feature=player_embedded

Photovine - Google’s new photo sharing app “plant a photo, watch it grow” Connecting through themes

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-secret-photos-app/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-secret-photos-apphttp://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-photo-sharing-app/

http://www.bizzy.com

http://thecleversense.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qv2dSXQXk&

Leverage new technology to assist with the old

http://blog.lab42.com/scanapalooza-qr-codes

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/8/14_Million_Americans_Scanned_QR_or_Bar_Codes_on_their_Mobile_Phones_in_June_2011

Loyalty programs + smart phones + QR Codes

http://mashable.com/2011/08/07/qr-codes-fashion/#22789Terry-Richardson

Augmented RealityPocket Universe

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/07/29/roman.london.app/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqgkCli2OZM&feature=player_embedded

Layar http://www.layar.com/

http://www.youmail.com/home/index.do Billion calls, 2 million usershttp://techcrunch.com/2011/07/21/with-1-billion-calls-under-their-belt-youmail-surpasses-2-million-users/

http://mashable.com/2011/07/16/twitter-accounts-200-million/http://mashable.com/2011/07/16/twitter-accounts-200-million/

http://mashable.com/2011/06/30/twitter-200-million/

“Two characters on the show, newspapermen Vince(@VinceHaven) and Dave (@DaveHaven), join Twitterand begin interacting with an unknown Twitteruser, @ColdInHaven, who has an extremely wideknowledge of the town.Viewers can follow the action on Twitter, and will beable to catch mentions of the tweet-based storylineon the show itself.“

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/05/us-groupon-subscribers-idUSTRE7746I120110805

Getglue

50 Billion Things on the Internet by 2020www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cisco_50_billion_things_on_the_internet_by_2020.php

‘Angry Birds’ Maker Seeks Funds at $1.2BValuation - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-11/-angry-birds-maker-seeks-1-2b-valuation.html “Angry Birds in the classroom. Rovio plans to publish a line of educational books for children ages four to their teens. Embracing the Finnish education system—which emphasizes play in learning: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904480904576498460747 826834.html#ixzz1UpMXo0qi http://www.newyorker.com “one of the books will illustrate geometry lessons by launching a bird character through the air”

HTC Status New AT&T Phone with Dedicated Facebook Button Upload photos/videos, share URL from websites, Easy check in to Facebook Places Goal: make Facebook an even deeper part of your life. Streamline social sharinghttp://allthingsd.com/20110809/the-new-smartphone-thats-easy-to-like/

Grasp what the mobile technology landscape looks like& how libraries can adapt to the changes

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