Jun
8
Goodbye GoodReads, Hello Shelfari!
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My friend, Jeff Coughlin just turned me onto a new book “shelfing” service called Shelfari. This is one of those web applications that makes me absolutely love the internet. It is snappy, with the right amount of AJAX and social networking. Its got a perfect focus, and it executes its purpose with plenty of style. One negative thing I will say about it is the widget system is clunky and slow…but oh well, just visit my shelfari directly!
I even bit the bullet and installed the shelfari bookshelf app into my Facebook profile. I have been very anti-facebook apps since they came out, not because I don’t think the platform is interesting, but it clutters the facebook experience, in my opinion. But, whats one bookshelf gonna do? (famous last words, right?)
Feel free to add me as a friend if you sign up!
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yea, screw facebook!
/checkin out shelfari…
cheers
Aren’t the apps part of the facebook experience? Lol, I always thought so. Those apps are pretty unique among networking sites.
At any rate… I’m a little surprised you like shelfari better, but different strokes, I suppose. I thought shelfari was slow. The flash was pretty cool and the ability to share my shelf on a blog, etc., but the shelves regularly reorganize themselves and the community functions are less than impressive. Plus, I love that authors are on goodreads. That and its simplicity make it appealing for me. It’s still developing, so I can definitely see it getting better too.