Library Thing

Wow, when I sign up for a Librarything account. Wow, when I learn more about the web site and how to use all the functions. O-my, this is great. I have always wanted to catalog my books at home (call me crazy), but I haven’t done anything yet. It would be a good hobby after I’m retired 20, 30 years from now I thought. He, he, guess what, with the help of this greatest web site ever created for crazy library lovers, I’m going to catalog my books this weekend!

Librarything is so easy to use, you will notice this when you sign up for an account. Type in your user name, your password, and you are in! No page long forms to fill out, no questions that you don’t want to answer, no required fields that if you missed, you cannot continue the sign up process.

Let me not to spoil all the fun you are going to experience, so this is all I’m going to comment on Librarything.

Book lovers, try it and have fun!

It is del.icio.us!

I first learned about del.icio.us was from KCLS Memo in 2006, I tried it and have been using it since. It made my life so much easier especially when I’m travel, I can set in an Internet Café anywhere in the world and still have my favorite web links together ready for me to use.

This is not just a collection of my favorite links as I used to save on my web browser, this in so much better than that! The best part?--I can look up other users’ tags on the same topic. The search can be much easier than search on Google sometime. You may not feel comfortable to share your photos, videos, blogs with online community, but sharing your favorite web links is not going to hurt anything right?

If you haven’t try del.icio.us yet, start it now, it is del.icio.us!

My Space

I don’t think I’m a MySpace person. Online socializing has never appeal to me. All my friends want me to sign up for IM, I said no thanks. Online, IM, I have not much to say because I call friends all the time.

I do e-mail a lot and liked e-mailing better than anything. The best part of e-mailing?—I don’t have to reply right here, right now, if it is not that important.

Yup, I'll cancel my account as soon as we finished up Learning 2.0!

RSS Feed? Are You Confused?

Understand how to use Bloglines took me some time. It’s not because it is hard to understand, it because I was too busy to read the post from betterdays. (Title: Using Bloglines or How To Keep Up With Dozens of Blogs Everyday) I have finally done my reading and finished my #7 & #8 Exercises. Bloglines can do some much. It will take me some time to try everything out.

If you are confused with RSS Feed or how to use Bloglines, make sure to checkout the Links from betterdays and preetamrai.com These two links are very easy to follow.

I have also tried RSS Search Tools. Only Feedster and Google Blogk Search let me search in Chinese. Bloglines Search Tool and Topix.net are not bad either. All Search Tools are easy to use, but I like Google Blog Search the best.

Another one called Technorati is the leading search tool and authority for blogs.

Good Luck.

Mashups?

Yupe, I have tried all those web sites:

• Spell with Flickr lets you spell anything from Flickr photos.
• Montagr creates photo mosaics from photos found on Flickr - all you have to do is change the tag in the top right corner.
• Flickr Color Pickr lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
• Retrievr lets you find photos based on your sketching abilities.
• Trading Card Maker lets you create your own trading cards (many library staff already have...).
• Flickr Soduku.
• Flickr services page,
• Flickr Bits (this is not officially part of Flickr) web apps.
• -Incredible list of Flickr tools from Quick Online Tips.

I found Flickr Sodoku is very fun becaseu I'm a Sodoku fan already. Other web sites were fun but I'm not sure what I would use them for. Well, that's just me.

I Have a Flickr Account!

I didn't want to have a Flickr account from the beginning because I don’t like the idea of sharing my photos with public. I understand that you can make it private, but when your photos uploaded to a web site, they are not really “private” any more…

However, I have changed my mind because I’m always having a hard time with sending photos through e-mails. I’ve always set my cameras to take highest resolution photos and because of this, I have to resize the photos before I can e-mail them and I only can e-mail total size of whatever through e-mails.

Upload photos to Flickr was very fast, I didn’t resize any photos, uploaded as is, and it was FAST! Love it! So, from now on, I’ll e-mail the link of my Flickr account in stead of attachments. We’ll found out how this will work out.

I'm officially "cashcowmoomoo".

Dear co-workers,

I'm cashcowmoomoo. I'm very happy to get my first Blog started and cannot wait to hear from you. I have already met “Sunset Queen”, “Readakimbo” "LearningSandy"...

He, he…this is too much fun.

Have a nice day.