News Roundup
- New on Twitter: “Photos, Videos, GIFs, Polls, and Quote Tweets No Longer Count Toward Your 140 Characters” ||| Additional Coverage (via The Next Web)
- Bookstores: Take a Look Inside Toronto’s Most Unique Bookstore (Home of the Biblio-Mat) (via Blog.to)
- Presentations From: IFLA Satellite Conference on Collaborative Strategies for Successful Library Design and Innovative Use
Agenda/Speakers ||| Direct to Presentations (via SlideShare)
- Voice Search: Google buys Api.ai, a voice-command startup, to help build natural-language interfaces (via GeekWire)
- Video Games: Time Spent Playing Video Games in the U.S. Continues To Rise & Video Game Play on Mobile Devices at All Time High (via NPD Group)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.