I had fun this week with the Mashups that were listed as examples: Codex Map, Politicalbase.com, and Qlock. I found searching for Mashups on mashupawards.com and programmableweb.com to be a bit difficult. I preferred programmableweb.com because they had an index. There is an overwhelming amount of mashups in this site, so I found it hard to find something that interested me. The biggest mashup site I would see using at our library us HubMed. I really liked searching that, although I can't imagine that it would ever be used more than PubMed. I don't know that we would ever create our own mashup.
I liked rollyo.com. It's nice to have a searchroll that covers a variety of blogs. I like that once we put in the term "librarianblogs" and search those results, it lists the blogs that are being searched when you enter a term. I browsed through the blogs written about privacy. Most involved technology and if it is a threat to patron privacy. Statements that I found interesting were that Net Gens (teens) aren't concerned about privacy because they want to be found. That would explain the success of sites like MySpace and Facebook!
Summing up this entire Web 2.0 class, I discovered a lot of new tools that I continue to use everyday: RSS feeds and GoogleReader, this blog site, Facebook, del.icio.us. It has been a lot of fun exploring these useful and interesting sites. Thank you for the opportunity to take this class!
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