cool toys conversations, january 2009
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Cool Toys Conversations, January 2009
PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, University
of Michigan, [email protected]
Communication
• http://youthvoices.net/
• Twitterimage.com• Twitterimages.com
• Wikipatterns.com
• http://getsatisfaction.com/annarbor/
• http://twitter.com/bizarrefoods
• Identi.ca
Education
• Wikisky.org
• http://www.khanacademy.org/
• http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy
• Cell Stories: http://cellstories.org/
• http://xtimeline.com/
• outreachworld.org/
• googlelittrips.org/
• http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CentersandInstitutes/EmergingMedia.aspx
• http://www.google.com/countdownto2009/
Games
• http://www.springerlink.com/content/e312w7l681h38342/
• http://www.springerlink.com/content/e312w7l681h38342/
• http://squidspace.com/
• http://rogue.gotgame.com/
• http://www.businessandgames.com/blog/
• Gamepolitics.com
• https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp004.nsf/v16_agenda?openform&seminar=FE6R8WES&locale=en_US
• http://torontoist.com/2008/02/can_video_games.php
• http://www.powerupthegame
• http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/
Health
• http://medline.cognition.com/
• http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126883.400-beer-marinade-cuts-steak-cancer-risk.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
• healthtalkonline.org/
• youthhealthtalk.org/
• http://applequack.com/2008/09/23/20-ways-surgeons-should-use-evernote/
• Fridgg.com
• http://www.medicalstudentblog.co.uk/twitter-doctors-medical-students-and-medicine-related/
Make a Difference
• http://changingthepresent.org/
• kiva.org/
• http://www.nonamecallingweek.org/
• Change.org
• https://secure1.acuriantrials.com/jsp/facebook/default.html
• http://instedd.org/
• http://classwish.org/
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rightful-Place-Project/46391575761
Media
• Shoutcast.com
• Blinkbox.com
• Hulu.com: movies
• Hulu.com: television
• http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/
• http://goanimate.com/
• http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/michigan_state_grads_physics_r.html
• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-places-to-watch-documentary-movies-online/
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/
• http://www.surfthechannel.com/cat/61482/a.html
• http://www.freedocumentaries.org/
• http://www.bodocus.com/
• Miro.org ???
• Joost.com
Organization
• http://mustacheinc.com/
• WePlay.com: the place that connects everyone involved in youth sports
• Blist.com ???
• http://www.busymac.com/busycal.html
• http://www.carecalendar.org/
• http://www.listingly.com/
Search
• VisualWikipedia.com ???
• ticTOCs: Journal Table of Contents Service: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
• Otalo.com
• eRideShare.com
• Vimo.com
Social
• Kaboodle.com
• Socialtrak.com
• SocialToo.com
• 97bottles.com
• http://twitter.com/97bottles
• ????
• http://www.labspaces.net/
Tools
• Audible.com
• Booksfree.com
• Amazon.com: Kindle
• Compete: http://www.compete.com/
• http://fototagger.com/
• http://capzles.com/
• Capzles: A Brief History of Apple
• http://www.cogitum.com/co-tracker-text/more.shtml
• http://www.cogitum.com/co-tracker/index.shtml
• http://www.memeorandum.com/
Visualization
• http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
• http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/coming-of-age-in-a-computer-world
• http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/ordered-comparison-of-popular-vote-b
• http://visualwikipedia.com/en/ for mindmapping
• http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/91756/Nuit_de_l%27enfer%2C_Rimbaud
• http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=Strika
Trends
• PopSci Best of What's New '08: http://www.popsci.com/bown/2008
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/porn-bailout-larry-flynt_n_155878. html
• http://twitter.com/gartner_inc
• “Last year, we said delete emails. This year, we say delete applications!”
Contact Info
• Patricia F Anderson– Emerging Technologies Librarian– University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries– [email protected]
• Slides will be at: – http://www.slideshare.com/umhealthscienceslibraries/