For this lesson, we are supposed to look at a site that made it on the Web 2.0 Award List. I looked at several of the categories and was suprised to see how many of the sites I already knew.
Under music, I have both Last.FM and Pandora, but I have never used MOG. I was a little unnerved when they said they allow a free 1-hour trial, but when I looked at the site, I couldn't find anything about cost after the trial.
Under Maps, I had worked with Google Maps and Google Earth pretty extensively, so I tried Live Search Maps (bing.com/maps). The "bird's eye view" is better quality than Google Map's satellite, but otherwise they are pretty equal.
The Social Networking Mainstays included Twitter and Facebook, which I am very comfortable with, but added which utilizes AOL account log-ins and which they state is more popular in Britian and the Australasian markets.
I looked at books, thinking it would be reviews and might include GoodReads and other similiar sites, but instead it included Lulu, which is more attuned to aspiring authors, Biblio.com where you can purchase out-of-print titles, and VuFind for libraries. While I'm sure these are great sites for people looking for those specific focus, none of them interested me as much as my GoodReads account, which connects me to my friends and reviews of what they are reading.
Finally, I ended up at Fun Stuff. It included Cocktail Builder, which several people have blogged about already. The site that I enjoyed the most was hairmixer, which allows you to take other people's hair styles and edit them on to your picture. Beware though, if the faces are not tilted the same way or if one picture is closer than the other, the effect is very disconcerting. I was able, after putting Marcia Cross' hair on Reese Witherspoon that it is a good thing Reese is blonde! This is a fun site and the option where you can upload a picture of yourself and try different hair colors was lots of fun!
There are so many new options out there and new way are spawned every day, so it is nice to have someone evaluating all the options that are out there. I may not always agree with their choices, but I would probably never see some of these sites if it weren't for the Web 2.0 Awards!
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Sorry about the huge spaces between sections. I only meant to put an empty line, but what I planned and what Blogger did were VERY different. I hope you will read it all anyway and will enjoy some of the thought that went into the post.
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