Thing 23: You tube videos

This site has many great uses and features.
I explored music gps: great for watching or listening to an artist;
puppies and horses great for fun or for profit--you could sell pups/horses etc on this
and you'd be able to see the pups interact and get a feel for their personality;
fireworks displays--great you can see and hear them from foreign countries.
For library related videos i watched to public service announcements for Banned Books Week
and looked at some displays. Also heard authors talk about how their books had been banned.
The features i liked best were: sharing video clips, related video suggestions, ranked by relevance and # of hits, ability to add clips to my favorites or delicious.

Thing 22: Flickr Mashups

This was interesting and fun.
I explored mashups and applications.
Some i was able to figure out and that i enjoyed were:
Flicktionary(you guess word from pic clues), Retrievr(finds images similar to one you create),
Kaleidoscope, Postcard Browser(find Flickr postcard images from keyword search),
Montagr(sounds like fun tho i couldn't use this right).

Thing 21: Flickr tagging

Tagging allows wider access to your pics by subject, place name, etc on Flickr.
Flickr is one of the most user-friendly sites for organizing and storage of pictures and illustrations. It allows the user to set up various levels of privacy or control over
who may view his/her work. One could allow access by specific friends, the entire public or
maintain strict privacy. There is a guest pass feature if say a friend on your contact list wanted
to allow 1 person access to your pics.

Thing 20: Flickr

Me and my friends after a Mary Kay consultation. Don't we look nice and so kissable?

This Flickr thing is pretty cool. It seems more

versatile and has more controls for privacy than

MySpace. Also more user-friendly in my humble

opinion.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bermudafan8/69891868/
Here a Golden Retriever that looks like mine.
I think this Flickr thing is pretty cool.

Thing 19: Web 2.0 Awards Lists

This was a fun one. The Web 2.0 awards gateway offered many interesting sites to explore.
My favorite site was Yelp which was great for relocation, visiting or vacationing in different cities. I could see events, entertainment, dining, housing, etc for an area. It also offered reviews
from individual viewing the blog.

Thing 18: Technorati

Perhaps my opinion of Technorati is "no big deal" because i spent all
kinds of time i did not have on trying to find the technorati " blog directory"
since it was listed in the discovery exercise as something to compare and contrast
against w/"blog posts". I figured i was too inept to locate it so i tried on 2 different days
staying late after work. Then, i finally find out from a co-worker who had had similar
problems that the website had changed and the directory no longer existed. No wonder
i couldn't find it! The coworker said she had mentioned this to the Virtual librarian but it was not removed from the exercise in Thing 18. Please take this off of the discovery exercises so that more people do not become frustrated trying to find it and waste their time as well.