Apple iPad

One-and-a-half pounds and one-half inch thick.   Like a big iPod Touch.

Maybe not completely off-topic this time…

• The iPhone has a free whiteboard app, allowing people in close physical proximity to collaboratively create sketches or drawings using their iPhone or iPod Touch.  You can get it from the App Store, or search for “Whiteboard: Collaborative Drawing” from the App Store on your iPhone. [A brief review from ReadWriteWeb]

• Apparently, Feb 9th will be the debut for the Kindle 2. According to the NYTimes Bits Blog, one of the updates might be smaller side buttons to avoid the accidental page turns, which several of you noticed and found annoying.  Here are some leaked photos from BoyGeniusReport. [From Computerworld]

• John Mark Ockerbloom at Penn has posted his ALA MIdwinter notes and slides where he was on a panel discussing the OCLC WorldCat records policy, and a panel on the open ILS at the DLF.

WorldCat.org is now accessible via your mobile phone. OCLC has created a downloadable application for several operating systems via Boopsie.  I have a Palm OS, and found it really easy to download the applications (you have to download both the WorldCat app and the Boopsie search app) and the search seems to work fine.  I wasn’t able to connect directly from the Palm WorldCat app to the Drexel catalog, but it looks like the iPhone app does do this, once you choose a library which whom you are affiliated.

I’d be interested in hearing what you all think about this, especially from you iPhone users out there.  Is it easy to use?  Do you see any value in this kind of offering?