Acatopia
I wish that I had known about Acatopia when I was up in Massachusetts presenting on web-based readers advisory. I would have pointed to it as an example of a good idea with a lot of potential, but no users (I was explaining that in order for collective intelligence to work effectively, well at all, you need people from which to intelligently collect).
The premise behind Acatopia is an open Q&A for books. You look up a book, ask a question and, hopefully, someone will answer you. Simple concept, but no users (in fact, I couldn’t even find an example of a question to show here).
Acatopia needs to show us some examples before we jump in and ask questions. How about an RSS feed of the latest questions asked? Or a development blog (this is a pet peeve of mine). This all said, I wonder if Acatopia will be able to survive on its own. I’d love to see it incorporated somehow into services like Library Thing. I wonder how many of these fair to good collaboration tools could be combined to create one really impressive tool… (link via Robin Good)
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