Reality TV bleeds over to the Internet
Similar to reality TV shows, audience participation is now all the rage on the Internet. The conference was buzzing about social software. Social software are websites that allow public interactivity like blog postings, myspace, flickr, youtube etc. They are all part of the Web 2.0 concept which allow the public to participate in creating web page content like the Wikipedia. A lot of Web 2.0 is built using AJAX technolgy which is a form of Javascript. Library 2.0 is simply making your library site more interactive for the public.
Some Web 2.0 sites mentioned were:
www.librarything.com - Lay people can catalog their own books
www.last.fm - Rate your favorite music and find others who share your taste
www.liveplasma.com - Aquabrowser-like search of connected musicians and bands
http://del.icio.us - Share your bookmarks with people
Mashups were also mentioned. The term was taken from the music industry when several different tracks from songs were thrown together. Mashups take data from different sites and combine them to create a new site. An example is http://www.housingmaps.com which combines data from Google Maps and Craigslist real estate listings to provide maps of real estate. Another mashup is http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm which color codes news stories to see how much world news is being reported vs. nation, business, sports news. You can easily create your own mashup at the www.suprglu.com website.
Search Engines and Websites
A mainstay of the conference has always been a review of hot search engines. Ask.com, formerly known as askjeeves.com was highly touted. Microsoft's version of Google is www.live.com.
Here's a list of other search engine alternatives to Google:
www.exalead.com
www.clusty.com
www.gigablast.com
www.furl.com
www.twingine.com - Shows Google and Yahoo results side-by-side
www.searchforvideo.com - Finds videos from many sites including youtube
www.northernlight.com - Reinvented itself as business search
www.kosmix.com - Category search Health, etc.
www.zillow.com - Real estate MLS for non-real estate agents
www.rollyo.com - Search engine for blogs
www.technorati.com - Search engine for blogs
Some Websites from the Conference and Speakers
http://www.infotodayblog.com/ - Conference blog
http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/ - Darlene Fichter's site
http://www.freepint.com/gary/bestofresourceshelf06.html - Gary Price's search resource
http://searchengineshowdown.com - Greg Notess' site
http://battellemedia.com/ - John Battelle's Searchblog
http://www.librarystuff.net/2006/01/library-20-questions-and-commentary.html - Article on Library 2.0
http://www.batesinfo.com Mary Ellen Bates' Search Engine Tips
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