Picture this: You go into a library and point your smartphone in the general direction of the shelves. Through “augmented reality” technology, labels appear on…
OPLIN 4Cast #194: Locating things
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Picture this: You go into a library and point your smartphone in the general direction of the shelves. Through “augmented reality” technology, labels appear on…
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According to the rumor mill, Blockbuster video is set to declare bankruptcy sometime in September. Some video-industry commentators are wondering if this is not just…
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Last week, Wired magazine ran a pair of articles by Chris Anderson (who wrote The Long Tail) and well-known journalist Michael Wolff under the heading…
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Now that OPLIN has announced our new Short Message Service (SMS) system for sending library notices as cellphone messages, this might be a good time…
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As of Monday, Dorchester Publishing, which claims to be the oldest independent mass market publisher in America and is known as a romance publisher, switched…
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You probably saw last week’s news about Facebook Questions, but you might have missed the news that Ask.com also decided last week to quit competing…
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Last week, Flipboard, “your personalized social magazine,” made a big splash in the Internet world, generating so much interest that their servers crashed on the…
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Amazon announced yesterday that it sold more Kindle books than hardback books over the last three months. While the format of the book may be…
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Knowing what your users are doing online is pretty important. You can use the info to know where to focus your marketing efforts. For example,…
How will social media impact your summer vacation? Share these Mashable links with your patrons so they can use social media before, during and after…