#19 Discovering Web 2.0 tools

The Web 2.0 Awards nominees were far too numerous, with over 40 pages of information. Instead I referred to just the winners in the short list, even they were across 41 categories, wow!
No surprises that Technorati and Del.icio.us were the Blog Guides and Social Tagging winners respectively. I was a bit surprised to find Library Thing in third place in the Books category, with Lulu coming first. This winner is an absolutely amazing tool. Take a tour of Lulu, register as a user and start publishing, it's that easy. It's very comprehensive and powerful. I can definately see an application for both staff and clients in a library setting.
For some more fun I had a play with Google Maps, the winner of the Mapping category. It was great to locate my house and favourite restaurant in street directory and satellite image versions.