Geeks Bearing Gifts

• Web 2.0: Using the Web as it was meant to be used
  • Introduction to Web 2.0
    
    • Tim O’Reilly, “What is Web 2.0?”
    • Wikipedia page on Web 2.0
    • Paul Graham, “Web 2.0″
    • Nate Anderson, “Tim Berners-Lee on Web 2.0: ‘nobody even knows what it means’”
      
  • AJAX: The Web as Platform
    • Wikipedia page on Ajax
    • Jesse James Garrett: “Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications”
    • Google Home Page
    • Google Docs and Spreadsheets
    • Google Maps
    • Ask Maps
• Staying Connected: rss feeds and aggregators
  • Syndicate this: RSS
    
    • Wikipedia page on RSS
    • Bringing in the Feeds: Aggregators
      
      • Wikipedia page on Aggregators
      • Bloglines
      • Google Reader
      • A List of Feed Readers
      • How to get a PubMed newsfeed
      • Sites/Feeds
        
        • T. Scott, site of T. Scott Plutchak, Director, Lister Hill Library, University of Alabama, Birmingham
        • Krafty Librarian, feed of blog of Michelle Kraft, Medical Librarian, South Pointe Medical Library, Warrensville Heights, OH
        • PubMed New & Noteworthy, feed
        • NLM Technical Bulletin, feed
        • Cute Overload (site)
      • Feed Hacks*
        • FeedYes.com (a service that creates rss feeds for sites without feeds)
        • FeedForAll (Feed creator)
        • Netvibes (Homepage using RSS, etc)
        • Feedjumbler (Convert, merge, and host)
        • Feed Digest (Mix, convert, and republish)
        • Feedrinse (RSS filter)
        • Pipes (interactive feed aggregator and manipulator)
        • RSS Specifications: everything you need to know about RSS
          
          • Displaying RSS Feeds
      • Cute Overload (site)
• Bridging the Divide: Wireless
  
  
  • Communicating with the Invisible: wi-fi
    
    • Wikipedia page for Wi-Fi
    • Wikipedia page for 802.11 standard
  • Nine Out of Ten Dentists Connect with: Bluetooth
    • Wikipedia page for Bluetooth
• Can You Hear Me Now?: new waves in audio and video
  • Downloading Zeitgeist: podcasts
    • howstuffwork: How Podcasting Works
    • Jason Van Orden: How to Podcast: “The definitive step-by-step guide on how to podcast without breaking the bank.”
    • Directories and Receivers*
      • iTunes
      • Podcast411
      • Castwiki: Directory of podcasty directories
      • Juice (Cross platform podcast receiver)
    • Podcasts
      • Tutorials from the Yale Medical Library (site)
      • Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, UVa, History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series (site)
      • University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine Podcasts (site)
      • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Podcast University
      • Stanford on iTunes U

    Woo-Hoo!: VoIP

    • Wikipedia page for VOIP
    • Skype*
      • Wikipedia page for Skype
      • Skype page
    • AOL/iChat*
    • Vonage/Verizon/etc.*
      
    • Adobe Connect (Web communication system)
  • Pandora*
    (streaming radio station that allows personalization)
• Six Degrees of Separation: social networking apps
  • We Met Online: introduction to social software
  • Uncontrolled Vocabularies: folksonomies
    
    • Wikipedia page for folksonomies
  • We’ll Remember it for You Wholesale: social bookmarking
    
    • Wikipedia page for Social Bookmarking
    • Food for Thought: del.icio.us
      • Wikipedia page for del.icio.us
    • Nature of the Beast: connotea
      • Wikipedia page for Connotea
  • Tag Sale: other cites of interest
    
    • CiteUlike ( “free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading.”)
    • BibSonomy (“system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature”)
    • Furl (find, save, and share links)
  • Tom is in Your Extended Network: social networking services
    
    • Wikipedia page for social networking services
    • MySpace
    • Facebook
    • Ning
    • LinkedIn
  • Others*
    • Flickr
      • Kittens!
      • Puppies!
    • Twitter
• Blackberry Thumb
  
  • ROFLMAO: instant messaging (IM)
    • Wikipedia page for IM
    • AIM/iChat*
    • Meebo (Web-based IM and aggregator)*
    • Trillian (IM Aggregator)*
    • Google Talk (Google IM)*
  • Thnks fr th Mmrs: short message Serivce (SMS)
    • Wikipedia Page for SMS
    • SMS Dictionary
• Web Gone Wild: Blogs & Wikis
  • Introduction to content management software
  • The Town Square: blogs
    • Wikipedia page for blogs
    • Blogs
      • Boing Boing (site–R-Rated)
      • Medical Blogs from MedWorm (includes medical librarian blogs)
      • Davidrothman.net (medical librarian blog)
      • Technorati (blog directory)
      • Feedster (blog directory)
      • IceRocket (blog directory)
        
  • Stiki: wikis
    • Wikipedia page for Wikis
    • Wikipedia
    • “Medwikis and Ed Wikis” (Blog post at medinnovationblog)
    • Ask Dr Wiki (medwiki)
    • BluWiki page for Geeks Bearing Gifts

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