links for 2009-11-25
Like the look of this for managing the import of Twitter feeds see Twitter Widget Pro "It’s true that you could just point an RSS widget at one of the Twitter feeds, but you end up with the whole tweet as a link, @replies don’t function, etc. Twitter Widget Pro properly handles twitter feeds, including linking @username to the user on twitter, linking #hastags to twitter search, parsing urls and making them links, allowing you to display your twitter profile image, and even allowing you to specify a custom error message to display when Twitter is down. You can also optionally choo

It is Mobiles not the Kindle that will Define the Future of Books
Mobile Social is beginning to change the world of books. It’s also going to make reading even more accessible to the world’s poor. When Anne Ruan goes to work in the morning, the Beijing subway is so crowded she can barely find a spot to stand. But the real-estate agent ignores the jostling of the other commuters and focuses on her book. Her e-book, that is…. Ms Ruan is one of about 5m Chinese who have taken up reading electronic books on mobile devices… China’s e-reader future Yesterday I bought two more books via my iPhone-Kindle. Books and reading on the iP

links for 2009-11-24
Here's the The Top Fifty Librarian Blogs – Easiest way for me to remember and find The Shifted Librarian Jenny Levine One of the blog I always used to read was The Shifted Librarian. Jenny wrote heaps and heaps back when I began blogging using Radio which I see today is long ago replaced by a WordPress blog now using the LifeStream plug-in. http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/08/17/experimenting-with-my-stream.html (tags: research

Your Identity Broker for Packages or in Fact Any Exchange Very Phweet
SendSocial via @Aswath (thanks!) and Andy Abramson a varation on using any ID and then brokering the exchange. This is a great variation. Twitter’s free pipe (at least for now) is enabling low cost entry for almost anyone to broker connections between one or more parties.). SendSocial let’s you address a package without knowing anything more than a TwitterID. (BTW I wrote a piece on ReThinking Mail – COMsumer Post back in 2003 Many thought I was

Gartner – From Wow to Shallow Thinking on Mobile Futures
First seen by me in ConsumerReports on my iPhone! Gartner has produced a list to  suggest where is mobile going “Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012” I’ve cut down the details – left some of their comments and added some of my own thoughts. There are a few additional predictions in their summary writeup. I’ve also added my own “areas”at the bottom of the list that I don’t think they have covered or perhaps simply take for granted.