Archive for the 'LibraryThing' Category

Google Books in LibraryThing

March 13th, 2008

Tim Spalding - “The official Google Blog and the Inside Book Search Blog just announced the new Google Book Search API, with LibraryThing as one of the first implementors.”
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Library Thing for (Academic) Libraries

March 8th, 2008

Barbara Fister - “I’ve have been intrigued by Library Thing for Libraries – without knowing entirely how academic libraries might use it. So I fired off some questions for the “technology triumvirate” of the Claremont Colleges.”

New LibraryThing Employees

March 1st, 2008

Tim Spalding - “We’re growing again…”

Job: LibraryThing for Libraries

February 3rd, 2008

Tim Spalding - “LibraryThing is looking for someone to take over the non-coding parts of LibraryThing for Libraries, our innovative plan to bring Library 2.0 gold to OPAC 1.0 slag.”

LawLibraryThing

January 10th, 2008

Law Libraries (13 of em), meet LibraryThing.

Tim Goes Off On Shelfari

November 8th, 2007

Tim Spalding - “We respect our competitors with one exception: the site “Shelfari.com.”
Shame on Shelfari. I, for one, will not blog about them anymore, unless they change their practices.

20 Million Books!

November 5th, 2007

Congrats to Tim Spalding and his crew of Thingers.

More On The Missing Material At The LOC

October 25th, 2007

Tim Spalding - “It’s too bad asking users for help is harder in the physical than in the digital world—although I’m sure a lot of thingamabrarians would pay for the privilege of rolling a cart through the LC’s stacks…”

LibraryThing @ Bowdoin College

October 23rd, 2007

Campus News - “When you think of online social networking, the “friending” that goes on among popular Web sites MySpace and Facebook may come to mind, but book lovers in particular are checking out a social network that has become a Web page turner of its own”
Update: Typo fixed. Thanks Alisia

Tagmashing

July 25th, 2007

David Weinberger: “Tim Spalding at LibraryThing has introduced a new wrinkle in the tagosphere…and wrinkles are welcome because they pucker space in semantically interesting ways.”
Tim Spalding: “Free copies of Everything is Miscellaneous”

What Are Thingers Posting Right Now

July 22nd, 2007

This could be more addicting than Digg Spy.

Replace Librarians With LibraryThing?

June 18th, 2007

Zach Sims thinks it will:
“Now, with a single click, users can access reviews, analysis, book information, and more. In addition, they can talk about the book with friends and other website participants, making the necessity of proximity a thing of the past for those looking to form book groups. The new services also seek to [...]

Amazon Tagging RSS Feeds

June 7th, 2007

Amazon has introduced RSS Feeds for tagging items.
So, Amazoners can tag books. So can LibraryThingers. I wonder if someone can write a script combining the two. Oh Tim!!!