WebJunction

I have several favorite 2.0 sites that I visit/use on a regular basis... some nearly every day. I would love to know what you are using. Let's share our fave 2.0 apps and sites!

Here are mine:

Pandora http://www.pandora.com
(with fuller comments on my blog at http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/2006/04/rocking-out-on-pandora.html )

Flickr http://www.flickr.com

Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us

Your Draft http://www.yourdraft.com

PBWiki http://www.pbwiki.com (I am using this to make a wiki for our library)

There are more, but those are my faves!

I agreee that this is a fascinating topic. I'd like to expand it a bit to find out more about how libraries are using some of the new social software sites.

Flickr is a great place to start because it's just so much fun. WebJunction started an account a while ago, but only last month did we take the next step of linking to it directly from our site. Our editor for the [url http://webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=12296 ]Techology Watch[/url] page added a little display (which Flickr makes it easy to do), which shows a different photo from our collection every time you land on the page.

The [url http://www.readingpl.org/ ]Reading Public Library[/url] is one of the pioneers to keep their home page fresh with a rotating display of photos. If you want to know more about how to do it, we are lucky to have librarian Andrea Mercado's [url http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=11260 ]Get Flickr-tastic[/url] guide to help.

I'm also a big fan of the Pandora music site. Like Janie, I [url http://blog.webjunctionworks.org/?p=147 ]blogged my excitement[/url]. I use it at work to help me block out all the ambient noise when I really need to concentrate. I wonder if any library has come up with a way to make use of Pandora for patrons.

I know there's lots to talk about on this topic, so what are you all doing?

I use Google Docs (formerly Writely, and I'll admit I preferred that name and the overall look of Writely's site to Google Docs) all the time.<br>
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I've become mad for Flickr. I freakin' <i>love</i> LibraryThing. I also quite like LastFM.<br>
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As a logophile, my newest fave is <a href="http://wordie.org/">Wordie</a>, which is brilliant in all kinds of ways.<br>

Yes, Wordie is lots of fun! I could spend waaay too much time there. They bill it as "Like Flickr but without the photos." It's also like Library Tthing but at the word level instead of whole books. Thanks for the link!