If you haven’t already done so, you may be interested in reading about Open Id. And if you don’t even trust the current smattering of open id providers, you can host your own. I recently set my own server up in no more than an hour’s worth of work, with the very handy phpMyID.
I can now use my own domain to authenticate myself, without having to rely on third parties to keep my password safe. Just need to find somewhere to login to…
Libraries do of course like to group things together into collections and make sure that like is with like. So it comes as no surprise to see that Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council Libraries have been doing just that…
A few folks have pointed out the Lookybook beta. Some though have slightly missed the point. This is an interesting example of an online store that allows you to have a look at exactly what you get if you buy. It has links to del.icio.us, and other social sharing sites that allow you to spread the word-of-mouth that will sell their books.
I am sure it is not, as some people seem to think, a source of free books to view online.
However, it is rather a nice example of what you can do if you take a bit of a risk and open up your content.
Now imagine the lookybook interface as the interface to your junior library catalogue!
I was just looking at a camp-site from space - where we spent a happy week last year - and noticed that the road had two little bus symbols next to it. Turns out Google is knowing where the bus stop is and what sort of buses stop there! Looks like they have harvested data from transportdirect.info.
… you download and burn to disk a linux distro such as Ubuntu Studio, and then load it into the drive of your PC ready to give it a whirl, only to be faced with a black screen and the slow dawning that the disk the laptop quietly burnt without any hassle was a DVD, and the drive in the PC ain’t.
Del.icio.us - link roll