Monday, May 12, 2008

Week 8 Mashups and API

Write about the Mashup you found on your blog. I chose Flictionary http://imagine-it.org/flickr/flicktionary.htm as the Mashup I tried and enjoyed. It is a game that uses the photos in Flickr to illustrate a compound word that you have to guess. Fun once you get the hang of it. It is quite a creative way to make use of all the photos in Flickr for a challenging game.

Browse the results of a search for "privacy" in LibrarianBlogs in ROLLYO and write something about what these bloggers said about privacy in your blog. I chose a blog by Librarian in Black that was talking about Google being ranked worse on privacy. That is a concern that I sometimes have, since Google offers so much ease of use in so many areas that I ignore my normal concern about what information I am putting on the internet. The resulting benefit makes me think that it is worth the risk. I sure hope it is!

The Rollyo custom searchroll that I created is called My Family Search and searches several different genealogical databases. Here is the link if you want to try it: http://rollyo.com/infopro58/my_family_search/

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