Kay Cunningham's List: Trends

'Using APIs and open access to push data into the stream, and making it easier for patrons to use our resources'

'The DaVinci Institute is a non-profit futurist think tank based in the fertile proving grounds of Colorado. We are a community of revolutionary thinkers and innovators intent on unlocking your future, one idea, one invention, one business at a time.'

'Cool Hunting is a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them. Money can buy you a lot of things, but it can't buy you coverage on Cool Hunting. All of our content is editorially based using the standard of "stuff we like." Published since February 2003 as a personal catalog and reference tool, the site today attracts and inspires more than 500,000 regular readers from around the world.'

'The example used in the post is a search for [tri energy], a phrase that was the hottest search on Google Trends on Friday, April 2nd. On its first check, Zscaler says 90 of the top 100 results were malicious - 86 of which sent users to a phony anti-virus page that tries to install malware. \nFor its part, Google is well aware of the problem. "Utilizing popular search terms and events to lure users into visiting malicious web pages is not new," a Google spokesperson tells us. "Using any Google product to serve or host malware is a violation of our product policies. We actively work to detect and flag sites that serve malware, reacting to the latest trends and watching for popular search terms. To do this, we have manual and automated processes in place to enforce our policies."'

blog on current and future trends

'What’s Next is a trends report offering clear, concise and non-sensationalist commentary on trends in society, business, science & technology, government and the environment. Each issue covers trends across twelve sectors and speculates about future risks and opportunities.'

'Trends in stock market indicators, household wealth, consumer confidence, and labor force participation are widely reported and used to measure the health of the U.S. economy. But less is known about the ways people are adapting to changing economic conditions. In this Population Bulletin, PRB looks beyond employment and income and examines other important aspects of people's lives, including educational attainment, homeownership, commuting, marriage, fertility, and migration trends. With the close of the decade, it is an appropriate time to review how the U.S. population has changed since 2000.'

Search engine that draws on Twitter, for trending topics.

'The map has 16 lines representing everything from society & culture to news & media. There are also 5 time zones representing 2010-2050, so everything that falls outside the central zone (zone 1) is obviously a prediction.The map is published under a Creative Commons Share-A-Like Licence so you can do anything you like with it, including selling it, just so long as you say where it came from.'

"When the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) polled its membership in July, fund raisers expected giving to increase by 5.3 percent over the course of the 2008-9 fiscal year. After wrapping up the 2008 calendar year, however, those sa

Audio broadcast on the future of the library building

"a two-year study sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Science (IMLS) that will identify the nature of anticipated labor shortages in the library and information science (LIS) field over the next decade"

"Most of our information-seeking behaviour on the Web is through keyword search; pulling the information we need to use. The push approach has ended up getting a bad name because of its clumsy and intrusive nature. Think about banner adds and pop-ups; the

"The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey."

"Reference and research services, the front line of library service, are dealing with a far-less-predictable future. The asynchronous, asymmetrical threats facing us are very real hydra monsters challenging our roles in many ways, all having some truth. T

"Let Jason Griffey take you on a guided tour into the future of mobile computing, where access is ubiquitous and librarians ply their trade in the information cloud"

"TTW’s annual look at the trends and technologies that I believe will impact what we do in libraries and information centers."

"digital magazine that includes in-depth product reviews and comparisons, interviews with senior information industry figures and monitoring of research to identify future trends"

Use the database to search for trends affecting public library systems between 2002 and 2006. To get started, choose a state and then a county.

Website traffic, what's hot, etc.