Archive for the 'Generation Y' Category

Rethinking Knowledge Management: PersonalBrain User Accumulates 80,000 Thoughts

The market for content and knowledge management systems and solutions is a crowded one—so much so that it can sometimes feel as if there are as many offerings out there as there are, say, neural pathways in the human brain. But there is probably only one knowledge management product that takes the inspiration for its design directly from that most complex and intricate of organs. PersonalBrain, a product of TheBrain Technologies, links networks of information including ideas, concepts, files, and webpages in a manner that attempts to mimic the thought processes of each unique user. Last year, TheBrain Technologies, a provider of visualization and dynamic mind-mapping software, released the fourth version of the PersonalBrain product, and last month the company celebrated a milestone in usage when one user surpassed 80,000 thoughts in his Brain.

Read the full article here

Generation Y Multitaskers Boost Media Time

Multitasking is driving up the total amount of time that US teens spend with media, according to a Bridge Ratings study conducted in March to May 2007. US consumers ages 13 to 17 spend more time with media overall than other age groups do, and their total media time has grown by more than two and a half hours per day since May 2004. Bridge attributes this change to Generation Y’s skill at consuming two or more of types of media simultaneously.

Read the full article here




Tags in Use

Tag Cloud

libraries education digital librarians/information professionals Google search social networking innovation books library services demographics internet virtual worlds technology collections social sites web 2.0 Library of Congress publishing research corporations YouTube economics Second Life children information Facebook web sites knowledge management museums archives American Library Association business intelligence OCLC Microsoft censorship video mobile/cell phones copyright Yahoo blogs gadgets China reading users mapping MySpace cataloging Pew Research literacy competitive intelligence gaming e-books open access trends databases software green Wikipedia Canada NYPL communities privacy environment reference semantic web journals Apple preservation OLPC iPhone India podcasts Kindle Amazon art computer science online resources disabilities wiki collaboration digital divide Europe future Firefox microblogging techniques consumers government Mozilla news music television dictionaries Twitter library 2.0 language politics Ask film Flickr tagging email design United Kingdom Uncategorized LibraryThing authors open source video games awards media mashups cloud computing United Nations applications writing intranets Japan widgets poetry psychology audiobooks geospatial AOL comics science teens experiential career plagiarism book groups prisons sources RSS security salaries bookcarts broadband peer review outsourcing Special Libraries Association photos architecture original content marketing VoIP history Technorati instant messages journalism hardware Wikia Africa European Library Windows Generation Y emoticons Digg Android metadata Copyright Clearance Center MSL data leadership translation artificial intelligence SOA thought leadership society young adult acquisitions/mergers ARL Vista storytelling Virtual Earth AJAX travel anthropology taxonomies spam aggregators OPAC Dogpile early adopters IMLS IEEE Intel intellectual property learning law 3D Horizon Report health fund raising Flock fashion ethics genealogy hakia EMEA grants leisure developing worlds patents outreach orphan works CAD Baby Boomers Asia Pacific RFID records management Shakespeare chat Cuba LinkedIn del.icio.us media players Moodle newspapers multi-tasking classification paper Blogroll

Calendar

October 2008
S M T W T F S
« Sep    
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  

RSS Feeds


Google Reader or Homepage
Add to My Yahoo!
Subscribe with Bloglines
Subscribe in NewsGator Online

Add to My AOL
Subscribe in Rojo
Subscribe with Pluck RSS reader
Add to Technorati Favorites!
Add to netvibes


Subscribe in NewsAlloy



Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License