16 June 2007

Bookshare on Facebook again

Some Petrona readers may have tried out Bookshare, an application on Facebook that a colleague at work created in his spare time. It does what it says on the can: lets you archive your books and see either your own library, the libraries of your Facebook friends, or those of all Bookshare users. You can put the books in subject categories, say if you liked them or not, and write and share reviews. Here are a couple of posts from "Stew" at his Flags and Lollipops blog, the first one describing why he chose Facebook as a platform to build Bookshare; and the second what happens to you when you tell a few friends about it and it is so popular that it gets 1.7 million users in a week. "A good problem to have? Maybe. Until you get your bandwidth bill (not a problem for images, luckily, as Facebook caches them locally, but still) or you want to use your server for anything else... ever." Read on at Stew's post.

(If you'd like to try Bookshare, and I recommend that you do, create a Facebook profile and enter Bookshare into the search window.)

16 Jun 2007 18:03:27 | Web/Tech

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