September 1, 2006
Fun with Menopause and Tomato Juice
Eric Lease Morgan has created something very cool called Tomato Juice. Here's how he describes it:
Given one or more words the system will try to look up definitions,
synonyms, encyclopedia articles, books (with cover art when
available), pictures, and Web links related to the input. It does
this by taking advantage of various (Amazon.com, Yahoo, dictionary,
etc.) Web Services.
I tried it out using the word 'menopause.' I urge you to do the same and be sure to click on the link "Pictures and Images" after running your search. Priceless.
Eric suggests this mash-up of his is something that libraries not only might want to do for their users (Agreed!) but it is something they might want to allow others to do with their data. In other words, make your library content one of the things that gets included in someone else's Tomato Juice -esque mashup. (Agreed!)
The direction we're going is to get our data out to our users. We can't wait for them to come to us. I guess that's my theme for the day.
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