Lets hope that Google’s announcement of that the Google Docs productivity suite for the iPad and Android-powered mobile devices will be coming in the “next few weeks” doesn’t turn into the next few months. One of the most significant shortcomings with the iPad is the lack of web-based collaboration tools, so these tools when finally released will fill a huge need.. We can also hope that many others will follow Google’s lead and start developing collaborative tools that run on the iPad.

A National Digital Library that can be stocked by Google Books project brings us much closer to the possibility of unfettered access to digital content. Robert Darnton, the historian who directs the Harvard University Library recently brought together 42 top-level representatives from foundations, cultural institutions, and the library and scholarly worlds to talk about how to build the digital library. In the Chronicle of Higher Education article One Step Closer to a National Digital Library Jennifer Howard reports on the results of this meeting.

There are plans for a follow up meeting this coming spring where the discussion will focus on the more concrete plans of establishing foundations to raise the necessary funds for the project and the need to establish the political and cultural will to move this forward.

We are on the cusp of the shift to a new information age.

Realize

Dwayne Harapnuik —  October 7, 2010 — Leave a comment

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Wonderful reminder of just how valuable our time is and why we should take control of the things that we can.

You have to at least give Microsoft the credit of recognizing a market leader and providing a migration path to WordPress but you also have to feel some sympathy for the millions of Lives Spaces Blog users who have to move.

Good to know that ACU Blogs runs on WordPress which continues to set itself apart as the dominant blogging platform.

It only took 10 months after its release on the Android but Google Goggles the visual search application is now available for the iPhone.

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