MLA CE Week 8 – Mashups and API

Spent time exploring a number of Mashups and discovered the September 2007 Masup of the month ~ LazyLibrary at http://lazylibrary.com . This mashup pulls in book data from Amazon and filters out anything with more than 200 pages ~ I guess this is a great site for non-readers!
After reading about HubMed I tried out the TouchGraph java applet that visually shows connections between Web sites. I searched for the AMEDD Virtual Library and here is the TouchGraph:

@ http://www.touchgraph.com/

I explored Rollyo, but, after searching a number of topics with disappointing results, opted not to create a searchroll. When I limited the searches to TOP NEWS I expected the results to be fairly current ~ and they were not. I did not see a way to set any limits on the timeframe searched.

The PRIVACY search covered a wide spectrum of topics/interpretations within the topic and there were over 9800 hits!

Thanks to the MLA Social Networking Task Force and the NPC Geek Squad in hosting this CE course for MLA members wanting to explore established and emerging Web 2.0 technologies!