Just in time for the holidays, the folks at ReadWriteWeb.com have published their techy predictions for 2010!  It truly is the most wonderful time of the year – for tech geeks like me, anyway.   Some of the predictions are, well, predictable (Facebook will continue to grow – and continue to have privacy problems, the iPhone will rule) but some are a little more interesting (Google’s Android phones will make major inroads because the iPhone App Store sucks, more people will be making e-commerce transactions with mobile devices, “netbooks” lose ground, and in between devices – not quite as tiny as a netbook, but much more streamlined than a notebook – take off).

It’s an interesting read for anyone interested in technology, but the implications for libraries is pretty clear: our patrons are rapidly moving toward an increasingly mobile experience and and they will continue to congregate in online spaces that offer social functionality.

Has your library taken any steps to be a participant in your community’s mobile computing world? Have you engaged your patrons in existing social spaces online, or added social functionality to your own web spaces?  Let us know in the comments!

(and PS – if you are interested in techy stuff, and don’t subscribe to or regularly read ReadWriteWeb, you should!!)