Happy Birthday!

It’s been a year since we launched this blog.

Here’s a look back at our top 21 posts:

1. Summer Reading Booklist
2. SLA 2011 Conference Highlights from a SLA Rising Star
3. Tablet vs Laptop
4. Google Does It Again!
5. Everyday Usability: Library Cards
6. Ignore Everybody
7. SLA 2011: Picks from a SLA Rising Star
8. Kudos to Lisa!
9. Everyday Usability: Book Carts
10. Are YOU T-Shaped?
11. Making the Most of 3.5” x 2”
12. Everyday Usability: Portable Library
13. Hello, My Name Is…
14. We ♥ IDEO
15. Music for the Mood, Digital Stamps, Vending Machines and More
16. I’m Not Job Hopping, I’m Job Shopping
17. Looking for Ways to Freshen Up Your Skills?
18. Our Top 10 Free Tools 2010
19. Will Apple soon be launching iCloud?
20. User Experience: The Reference Interaction
21. Creating and Managing Your Online Identity

Music for the Mood, Digital Stamps, Vending Machines and More

I got the trend watching briefing “Innovation Extravaganza” in my inbox last month and finally got a chance to look at it after SLA. It features over 30 innovations arranged by 14 trends/categories ranging from happiness to embedded stories.

Here are a few that I found interesting:

• In the mood for a certain kind of music? Moodagent analyzes and profiles a user’s music collection and then creates playlists to suit their mood.
• With emails, text messages and instant messages all around us, it’s nice to send a message via snail mail, but chances are you probably don’t have stamps. The Denmark Post now has digital stamps that you can buy via text message and a code is sent to you which then can be written on the envelope.
• Wonder about the “who, what, when and where” of a donated item? RememberMe allows people to attach stories to donated items using RFID tags.
• Get or send something different in the mail. Not Another Bill sends a surprise gift every month.
• Speaking of vending machines in the last post, you can now buy a soda for a friend from a Social Vending Machine and your friend can redeem the drink with the SMS code at participating machines.

Check out the rest here. Which ones caught your attention?