Thing 40 Mashup the Web

This Thing gave me a headache. Not literally, but when I perused many of the links I became very aware of how little I know and how much I have to learn! I definitely need to come back to this Thing and keep browsing.

Lunchbox was of no use as far as I could see. I entered a couple of zip codes that I knew from memory but no information on restaurants was available for those areas. The Wheel of Food site was cute but not something I'd use very often as I don't eat out for lunch very often.

VisualHeadlines appeared to have no use at all. I expected to find photos for the current news but found no photos like that. The site appeared to have templates for those who want to make a headline for their site. I was confused as to what it's purpose was.

FlickrMemari was fun. It had memory games in three catagories: easy, medium and hard. I tried the easy one, of course. If you or your children have time for computer games this might be enjoyable once in awhile.

I bookmarked the Let Me Google That For You web site.

CrimeReports had no information for the two addresses in the two cities that I typed in. This is perhaps a fairly new site and needs more info to be really useful. I think I'd like to check from time to time on what is going on in my neighborhood or in my city. Even the address I put in for St. Paul did not bring up any information. Disappointing, but I'll try again at a later date. maybe it is too new yet to be effective.

WalkScore might be useful for someone moving across country to a new city and desiring to know the walk Score in neighborhoods they were considering living in.

bkKeeper tracks your reading and bookmarks your page for you. I don't see much use for this site. I checked out the books being read by the people who use this site and I see that we don't read the same type of literature. This site is someone's personal project. Apparently they wish to see how literature and technology can intersect.

LazyLibrary was OK. I expected a lot more books to be listed. It appears to be for those who want to read only books shorter than 200 pages and also want to buy books. The site is linked to Amazon.

BookTour is not very helpful and certainly not complete.

LibWorm is sort of a serach engine for library personnel. I spent quite a bit of time perusing the RSS feeds for Feed Catagories and Subjects. This I would think would be quite useful to those in the library profession. I registered for an account.

One other web site I made note of is: http://www.wolframalpha.com and I expect to check that out soon.