You Send It

I see the benefits of You Sent It. Being able to send larger videos through emails and not having to edit them down is nice. I was going to send myself one of my Flip Videos, because those are huge and I can never get those to go through on an email, but apparently I lost them somewhere in the vast void of my computer. Instead, I sent a generic video already available from Microsoft.

Tiny URL

This is a pretty cool website. The benefit of this site is quite obvious. It is much easier to send and url to someone with 26 characters rather than 92... or more. I copied the link to a new book by Patricia Briggs via Barnes & Noble, http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Silver-Borne/Patricia-Briggs/e/9780441018192/?cds2Pid=18016 , and Tiny URL turned it into, http://tinyurl.com/ydtc67p, but then I decided to customize it and turned it into this, http://tinyurl.com/newpbriggs. Very nice and more memorable.

Facebook

Like most I, too, have a FB account. I've found many friends that live out of state and that I hadn't talked to since graduations (high school, college) or from my own move out of state (I'm Okie originally, Boomer Sooner!).

I'm a "Fan" a few different groups, but must say, I never visit those sites. I mostly use it to chat with friends. While having a FB page for the library might be useful, I think our website is still the best way to advertise ourselves and our programs.

Linked In

This is a pretty neat site. I can see the benefits of creating an account and posting your resume. It does seem, however, to work best if you already know people out in your industry. For new comers or recent graduates, it might not be the best fit. Playing around in it more might give more insight.

Delicious

I'm boycotting Delicious. Been there, done that, and don't want another "free" account on a site that I will use for this one purpose... for 5 minutes, and then forget about in ten minutes. I don't even remember how to log on to my Google Reader.

I'm sure people find Delicious very useful in having an online home for all of their favorites. If your computer crashed or (as we experience often at the library) your hardrive is replaced, then this sort of thing would be useful in retrieving all of your favorite bookmarks. Personally, I won't do it. I don't have that many that I can't remember what they are. There are so many sites to remember, to belong to, to log on to, to access, to... I lost my train of thought.

There is too much out there in internet-land to keep track of all the places one can store, retrieve, or save information.

Tagging

Tagging is a good idea, in theory. If everyone understood how to spell, what words truly correlate to the book, etc., etc. If the tagging system itself could translate or merge words that were supposed to be the same, instead of listing all variations of "young adult," "young adult fiction," or "paranormal," and "para-normal."

You can still get a good idea of the basis of a book no matter what, but it can make for a mismash of tags.