Week 8: Searching the Web

This week presented us with the perfect opportunity to take a look around the web and see what else is available to us other than Google.

Of the 5 suggested, I quite liked how Exalead allows you to add your own shortcuts to the homepage - it's nice to personalise things afterall.
The people search engine Wink was also very interesting in that I was able to find myself - interestingly, it was my facebook profile from about 5 photos ago so who knows how current the site is.

To rap things up - I'd like to thank Mr (and Mrs) Jones for the program. I will be able to take with me a whole bunch of knowledge about Web 2.0 that I didn't formerly have, and honestly, probably wouldn't have had the inclination to seek out - so in the [shortcut-ted] words of Fall Out Boy - thx fr th mmrs!

Week 7: Librarything and Doppelme

Librarything - is kinda similar to Delicious but instead of using websites it uses books to link like-minded people together with title lists, reviews and ratings. It could be used to introduce you to new authors and/or if you are in a book club.

Doppelme - this was a bit of fun although i couldn't work out how to save my avatar to my blog at first but a little bit of playing around and it all came back to me - that's what several months off from doing the Joneses will do...