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When I think about technology, it makes it hard for me to decide whether this is the ending or the beginning of technology. If you see closely, it seems that there is a very creative competition in the world of Internet. Every day new developments are taking place. What I see - if the technology will continue to keep growing, it will make life easier and more enjoyable. Here are a few new developments, and how these are contributing to our life:

AnswerTips

AnswerTipsTM are small information bubbles that define any word when double-clicked. An AnswerTips-enabled site or blog means visitors get fast facts on 4 million topics provided by Answers.com when they double-click on any word, without opening a new browser or following outbound links. AnswerTips deliver instant definitions, explanations and facts including biographies, tech terms, geography, pop culture and much more. For More Information

Blog

‘A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”.

Delicious

What a wonderful tool for saving the favorites; and make those available anywhere of the world. Yes, Del-icio.us made this possible. It is a Google’s another creation. Open your account, start saving your favorite sites that you can open anywhere. Start your own

Facebook

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. For more info.

Flexlists

With FLEXlists you can create lists of anything you want, with every field you need.You can share the list with others, invite them to edit the list or just keep it for yourself.

Flickr

Flickr is a website that gives the provision of sharing pictures. It was one of the earliest web 2.0 applications. It is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. At this time, it has more than 2 billion images. I know just a few years back, it was so hard to send 2-3 pictures through the email; and now we can paste as many as we want. Click here for open Flicker

Google Doc and Zoho

These two tools have almost similar features. You can create, edit and save word documents; you can also upload your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch; and can access or edit from anywhere. These will be specially useful for the libraries. Often libraries don’t have both Internet and word processing on their the same terminals; the library staff should start teaching the patrons how to use Google Doc or Zoho that will be helpful in making their customers happy. Google Doc or Zoho

Instant Messaging

Instant Message is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet. For more information

Metadata

Metadata is structured data which describes the characteristics of a resource. It shares many similar characteristics to the cataloguing that takes place in libraries, museums and archives. The term "meta" derives from the Greek word denoting a nature of a higher order or more fundamental kind. A metadata record consists of a number of pre-defined elements representing specific attributes of a resource, and each element can have one or more values.

Podcast

Podcast is a digital media file or a related collection of such files, which is distributed over the Internet for playback on portable media players and personal computers. Typically, a bit of a learning curve for staff, but high ease of use for library user. For more info.

RSS

(Really Simple Syndication) is a method of receiving constantly updated links to your chosen websites. Once you have set up a connection to a website you will receive a list of all the stories currently shown on a certain page or section of that site.

What problem does RSS solve?
Most people are interested in many websites whose content changes on an unpredictable schedule. Examples of such websites are news sites, community and religious organization information pages, product information pages, medical websites, and weblogs. Repeatedly checking each website to see if there is any new content can be very tedious.

How can I receive RSS feeds?
There are several ways of receiving RSS feeds, but the technology is moving forwards and adapting very quickly. The main method is to download a program called a 'News Reader'. You can then set up this program to receive RSS information from whatever websites you wish that offer it, and browse headlines and story summaries that link through to the full story on the website.

Second Life

Second Life is an Internet based 3-D virtual world entirely created entirely by its membership. Members assume an identity and take up residence in Second Life, creating a customized avatar or personage to represent themselves. Website

SlideShare

It is a world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. Website

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as socail-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users. For more info.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia, which is written collaboratively by volunteers. It consists of 195 independent language editions sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia

YouTube

YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Upload or enjoy the videos of your choice

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Sarwan