Mobile Technologies in Libraries

A recent study from Ruder Finn revealed that Americans are spending nearly three hours per day on their mobile phones. And what are they doing there? Educating themselves, conducting business, managing finances, instant messaging, emailing? All of the above, as it turns out, and then some. But perhaps the most interesting finding from the new data is the fact that more people are using the mobile web to socialize (91%) compared to the 79% of desktop users who do the same. It appears that the mobile phone is actually a better platform for social networking than the PC.

New report from Pew.

"A look at how the technology debuts at the recent Consumer Electronics Show will shape patron expectations"

new book by Jason Griffey on mobiles

"If your organization's information is not available on a small screen, it's not available at all to people who rely on their mobile phones for access. That's likely to be young people, people with lower household incomes, and recent immigrants - arguably important target audiences for public health messages."

a great collection of iPhone home screens from some top designers. a nice glimpse into outlier users and what they deem as important to put on the first screen.

Stanford has made their course on how to build iPhone apps available on iTunes.

This is a very useful whitepaper on the mobile web, and how libraries can teach in the mobileweb. Some good practical exercises.

These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now ...

This might be an example to follow as we try to move forward and collaborate with specific classes.