#12: Rollyo

I didn't find Rollyo as easy to use as some of the other Web 2.0 sites. I can see the purpose of it if you regularly want to be able to search a list of sites on a regular basis. It seems to me like it's creating your own meta-search engine. I created a search engine that would search some scrapbook sites that I visit, but I don't think I will use it as I enjoy visiting the sites directly. Maybe I just don't understand this Rollyo too well.

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#11: LibraryThing

There is lots of discussion on the Next Gen catalog, and always LibraryThing comes up. I will admit that I hadn't actually played with it until today. I have seen some demo's of it though.

I created my library very quickly - the interface, while not pretty, is easy to use. Chick lit is one of guilty pleasures so I added some chick lit titles and joined the Chick Lit group. I can see definite usage of this for my own reading list - to find out about new authors from other people who read the same type of books as me and to keep track of my reading list. Love the tag cloud and Book Suggester. The Unsuggester is an interesting concept.

I hope that this is a type of technology with tagging and reviews is something we can use at MCPL for our catalog. Here's my library.

#10: Online Image Generators

I created an avatar using Meez. Their site is really easy to use and most of all, it's fun; and I've added my avatar to my blog profile, and we are using our Meez avatars on Teensite. Check out the Teensite Advisory Group Librarians. Here's my Meez girl.