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Geeking out

October 10, 2006 by Dunrie

In August, I attended an Usability Professionals’ Association Meeting “Obsession: the Sympathetic Heart of Design“, given by Tom Brinck. Among other things, his definition of “Web 2.0” was the ability for people to “geek out” about stuff they like. Geotagging photographs and now organizing my bookshelf and rating books online seem to be two shiny objects that have my attention.

His site for organizing books was LibraryThing.com. When the inspiration struck, I couldn’t remember his site, and so I found and am fooling around with aNobii right now. aNobii hangs up a lot, and has fewer books on its shelf than LibraryThing (16K vs. 6 million), so for the networking potential/Metcalfe’s Law, I’m in the wrong pond…..but it’s oddly sticky, maybe it is just “sunk cost” of time spent.

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  1. Will says

    November 1, 2006 at 1:39 PM

    Dunrie,

    Just tried to send you an e-mail but your old address bounced. Please send an e-mail with your latest.

    Will @ PU

  2. Dunrie says

    December 27, 2008 at 10:47 PM

    Moved everything over to Goodreads from Anobii

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