Thing 19: Discovering Web 2.0 Tools

Although it was hard to pass up the cocktail builders' site with its promise to take the booze you have around your house and tell you what cocktails you can make with it, I ultimately decided to look at the offerings under Lists and Polls. The winner in that category is a site called 43 Things where you can list what you want to do with your life and then get a list of links to other people on the site who want to do the same thing. I suppose this would be a useful site if you enjoyed meeting people with similar interests online especially if you had a really unusual interest and happened to find someone who shared that interest. Since social networking online is not my thing, I also checked out Listdump which was the 3rd place winner in that category. Listdump is pretty much what it sounds like - a place where people post lists of all kinds. I suppose either of these sites could be used to help draw people to the Library website by placing posts on the site. However, it was the 2nd place winner that probably would have the most uses in a library setting. Statsaholic compares website traffic on different sites. This could certainly be useful for businesses thinking about advertising online or wondering about their competitors.