I am adding this to my list for Xmas......... only $7,000 (American dollars that is) - and can be found at Sakura Adachi's online shop.
I found it by checking out the StumbleUpon website that came second in the "Social Tagging" section of the Web 2.0 awards to del.icio.us.
BBC World describes it as:
"StumbleUpon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of excellent pages that have been stumbled upon by other web-users"
In turn the StumbleUpon website led me to the ThisNext website which describes itself as a "shopcasting" site - this from their website describing what "shopcasting" is:
"ThisNext is a shopcasting network where you can discover, recommend and share things you love. Everything on ThisNext is recommended by real people like you. Shopcasting is a way to spread the word about things you love. "Shopcast" is a word that combines shopping and broadcasting. What podcasting did for audio is what we're doing for shopping—broadcasting taste and knowledge of great products recommended by people like you. Right now, we support several tools that help you shopcast lists and tags on your blog or website."
"Recommended Lists", "Wish Lists", "Tagging", it's interactive, it's social, it's has all the things an online library should have. I checked out the tag on books and found several other consumer items that piqued my interest......
How about a "Book Chair" as an essential part of your Library's furniture?
Or a "I Read Banned Books" bracelet as an item to sell in your Online Library shop?
Wasted a lot of time but had a lot of fun discovering these tools today..... TTFN.
1 comment:
Can you imagine a patron sitting comfortably in the chair while you crawl around their legs trying to retrieve a book for a shelf check?
Ha Ha!
Cheers, webgurl
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