Thing #17~ Sticki Wikis

I added an entry to the Learning 2.0 Sandbox Wiki. Check it out!

Thing #14~ Technorati

Well I've always been an organization type of person, hence why I like libraries. I find tagging to be very simple and useful. Mostly what I got out of exploring Technorati was just a bunch of neat websites that I'd never really explored and some that I visit all the time and apparently a lot of other people do as well. For example, I could probably spend all day bouncing around BoingBoing and a lot of my favorites like ICANHASCHEEZBURGER and PostSecret are amongst the top blogs on Technorati. There's also some really strange stuff like the Fake Steve Jobs blog. I found Helene Blowers' blog when I searched on Learning 2.0 and that was cool to read. Overall it was really interesting. It also put a bug in my ear about maybe taking up paid blogging for some extra money. Does anyone reading this have any experience with such things?

Thing #13~ De.li.cious

Being a big organizer, I'm big on tagging, as you can see from my tags on this blog. I found de.li.cious interesting but I guess I'm kind of just used to sending URLs around via email, blog, IM or some other means and I don't really see a huge need for social bookmarking. It may be a useful research tool for customers who are doing research on different topics to look at premade lists of bookmarks that other people interested in that subject found useful. As Jaye said, some of the "things" will really excite us, others won't really, and de.li.cious was one of the latter for me. Oh well, on to the next thing!

Thing #12~ Rollyo!

So I created a Rollyo for perfume which is basically like a mini search engine that you build yourself. I added a whole bunch of my favorite places to buy perfume and favorite blogs about fragrances and perfumes. The function of this Rollyo is to punch in the name of a perfume, or a note (such as vanilla or frankincense), or a concept or mood or theme of a perfume (i.e. Halloween, faeries) and come up with something to buy or something to check out. It doesn't work QUITE as well as I'd like because some of the sites it searches are so loaded with meta data that I get a bajillion hits from one site and it takes forever to get through them. Also all the ads are annoying but it's an interesting concept I'm glad I came across and learned about.

Select...Find-A-PerfumeSearch The Web

Thing #11~ Library Thing

So I added 25 random books to my LibraryThing and I put the covers on my blog too ::: points to the shinies :::: LibraryThing is really cool, I think I'll play with it some more when I have some time.

Just for fun.... another widget

Stolen from Beth T's blog :-)

Thing #10~ Image Generators

Meez is so juvenile it's actually fun :-)



And here I am as princess M&M


Fun timewasters/de-stressers :-)