This session made my head spin! There is so much stuff out there for mobile users. The speaker Megan Fox, Associate Director of Technology and Special Projects, Simmons College was very knowledgeable about all of this stuff.
Here is some of the notes I was able to jot down:
General facts
- iPod has over 30,000 apps
- Text/SMS 2:1 ratio (more people text than call)
- By 2011 all “smartphones” will have access to apps via mobile web
Mobile Search
- Customized searches provided by ChaCha (answer anything)
- Google Mobile phone lets you do a Voice Search (never have to type to search)
Mobile Search Engines
• Google Mobile Local
* Google SMS
* 4info - SMS search services
* Synfonic - Also offers SMS search services
* Vazu - Allows you to copy & paste text and send it as a SMS search
* YP - Offers yellow pages and white pages look up. Also, you can reverse phone and address look up, including neighbor lookup
* Yahoo Mobile
* MSN Mobile
* AOL Mobile
* Infospace Mobile
Plenty more….
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| From Computers in Libraries 2009 Conference |
This session has made me an Mobile App Fan!
3 comments:
Google also has a brain search for blackberry users. It's supposed to customized your searches. I read a little about it last night.
I agree, Leeci. It is too much, but good at the same time.
I wish I were there...
I like that you are using pics!!!! It makes this blog more effective.
Keep up the good work.. I am kind of sad it's ending today!!!
Awww, me too! It's been a lot of information and all of it is so useful.
You never know what you may need in the future.
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