Task Fifteen -- del.icio.us

My opinion on del.icio.us is similar to that of rollyo. It is a good site for doing some searches where it helps to see what other people have done. Librarians may be able to do this sort of thing where they prepare subject searches that are either searching appropriate web sites or using appropriate tags or a mashup of each way to search. At the moment, I would say that things need to be improved and taken to another level before it will be of use in libraries, though maybe that is something that libraries should be preparing now.

Task Fourteen -- Web 2.0

There were a ton of neat sites on the Web 2.0 awards that were fun to browse and play around with. Some of my favorites include Arcaplay, Yelp and Blinklist. My favorite discovery is meebo.com The awsome thing about Meebo is that you can access instant messaging from the web without having that software downloaded on the computer. You can also access several things like AIM and Google's IM at the same time. It is a fairly simple website, but that is something that I will begin using now.

Task Thirteen -- Zoho

Publishing to a blog from Zoho (see below) is very very cool. I like that feature a lot. Since it works so much like MS Word, it is easy and intuitive to use. Being able to share documents easily seems to be the biggest selling point of both Google Docs and Zoho, since anyone can get to them from anywhere.

Zoho Publish

Time to publish something from Zoho.

Task Twelve -- Rollyo

Learning how to use Rollyo was fun. I think that this could be a good library tool at some point. Librarians could edit a search feature by subject or grade level or something like that and allow patrons to have a better searching experience. Really though, Rollyo and Google co-op need to be more user friendly so that search rolls are easier found and used. I think that Google has a slight edge becuase people are used to their style and design, but both are good options for searching. View my Major League Soccer searchroll

Task Eleven -- LibraryThing

So, I think LibraryThing is really neat, though I use GoodReads, because I like the updating feature. There are quite a few blogs that have incorporated LT into their blog which is really cool. I put the last five books that I have read on my new LT account. Here is the link.

Task Ten -- Library Two Point Oh

As much as the terms Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 bother me, the concept is completely true. Libraries need to use the new modes of communicating and sharing information that are here to stay.

Library 2.0 is just using new technologies to do what libraries have been doing forever which is giving people the power to find the information that they need or want. A 2.0 library is more accessible to more people and is often remote and not tied to a library building.

Task Nine -- Library Blogs

So Technorati is my favorite of these types of sites. Really though, I think finding cool blogs/news sites on your own and then setting up the feed on a news readers is much easier. I have never found (though that doesn't mean it doesn't exist) a good site for searching blogs by topic and not by stories or posts. I did find some interesting stories on Technorati that I would not have seen elsewhere, so that rocks.