Web 2.0 Award Winners

I was quite excited about this list of winners, there looked like some interesting names and categories. In actual fact, it wasn't really exciting at all. There were some familiar names like Delicious and CitySearch, but I thought some of the others were a bit dull.

I liked Biblio - very much like Abebooks but a site with much greater functionality. I particularly liked the browsing function and that they have created lists of author biographies and bibliographies. I love VuFind, it's being worked on here at UniSA Library at the moment and it's an exciting piece of software. The example of VuFind in action at the National Library of Australia looks great! It will be wonderful having that kind of flexibility in our catalogue. I was sorry that Library Thing only got an honourable mention - that site is a lot of fun. I don't know why I'm so interested in cataloguing my books at home. It's a little sad, I admit, but I think it would be heaps of fun :-)

Library Thing

I think that Library Thing utterly rocks! Here's a link to my Library. I love that if you add a book into your library and it has a blank cover, you can click further and either upload your own or use a cover supplied by another user. The most recent Phryne Fisher title I added to my library only displayed the default blank cover, so I've selected someone else's, much better.

This sort of thing appeals to me. I'm a total library nerd, I've always wanted to properly catalogue my books and this is just such an interactive way to do it! Once you've added the books, you can then look at your library and see other users who also have the book. I've only added 5 of my books so far, but something tells me that there will be a lot more added there soon.