Web 2.0 Award nominees

I looked at the winners first. Since I was already familiar with Craig's List, YouTube, Google Maps and Twitter, and have recently played with Flickr, Del.icio.us and Google Docs, I decided to look at Mango Languages because we have it as a database. The introductory lession started with the familiar dialog format but using the enhancement of sound, repetition and grammar in a painless manner, more structured than Rosetta Stone.

I then looked at Farecast, which turned out to be Bing Travel. I didn't find it to be particularly impressive as I have used similar meta-search engines for air travel before--I'm not too impressed with Bing as a search engine anyway.

I decided forego looking at PBWiki since I had already joined them in my attempt to reach the now infamous wiki of marylandlibrariessandbox.pbworks.com, and instead checked out LinkedIn. On closer inspection, I saw they wanted me to use my email address to look for possible professional contacts but felt uncomfortable opening up my email information to the world in order to garner a few possible leads, so decided against pursuing it further. I'm already beginning to feel a little leary having too much information up on Facebook, although I can see that LinkedIn has the potential of being a great networking resource--of course we could do this on the PLA site as well but, as I mentioned before, the site is completely dead.