Mashups are the first topic in this course that I had not previously explored. Hubmed looks fascinating and I will explore it in more depth. Most of what I am viewing in the mashup awards don't look very interesting to me. The concept of combining different data is cool but sites like Twitter Browser look like a waste of time. I played around with Pageflakes. It looks interesting, however I already use Google's customized home page. I found the web 2.0 toolbar kind of interesting. I might use this.
Rollyo looks like a site I will use. I loved creating a list of preferred URL's to search simultaneously. I will be using this feature for sure. What a time saver! When searching for privacy in this, articles like the eproblem that posted library patron information on the web are very scary. Most of these web 2.0 technologies bother me as they create comfortable situations for people to share personal information. If the world was 100% honest, these sites would be wonderful. I always am concerned about data mining and where some of this data ends up.
This was a wonderful course and I'd like to thank the MLA for providing it. I learned a lot and will follow up with more readling. I hope that the website stays up for at least a year. I'd like to go back and revisit some of the optional readings at a later date.
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