There were so many great sites/apps on the Web 2.0 Awards list! But I will only pick one, and that will be...the "personalized google" under the Start Pages category. I'm really not sure why it came in 3rd place, since the winner, Netvibes takes forever to load (and offers google as their main search engine anyway!) and, sadly, is just not esthetically pleasing. It looks like something made with Microsoft Publisher circa 1991. My guess, google envy! Everyone has it right now, even the EBSCO vendor who showed me their "google experience" search interface they will soon release.
What I like most about the tool is that it's great to integrate all your other useful stuff like email/gmail, rss reader, google docs & apps etc., which I'm already using. It offers some killer add ons, specifically related to libraries. I just ran a search in the add ons page for "medical library" and found so much useful "stuff".
Obviously libraries can use this tool to store their favorite useful web pages or news feeds in one place including, but not limited to: Worldcat, Librarian's Book Revoogle, and ALA's Best of Free Reference search boxes.
As a complete cheesy side note, you can pick your own theme for the header. Mine is (of all things) a fox who hangs out at an Asian tea house and does such things (according to the time of day) as row her boat on the lake, wash her clothing in the lake, eat lunch, make paper cranes, feed the ducks, eat dinner and sit on the dock at night to watch the sun set and the fire flies come out.
I love this thing so much!
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