Web2.0 Reading List

I was tweeting Dave Pattern (Huddersfield Uni) with a suggestion for a 'mash-up' topic to be included within the mashed library event . After having searched high and low on the web I knew there was very little in the way of web2.0 reading lists, and so I thought the mashed library event might be a good place to kick-start such a project.

However, I spoke too soon...someone contacted me on twitter with some info regarding my post to Dave. He said that they were developing a web2.0 reading list and I should take a look. Not only this, but the guy who was developing it works at Kent University and I have met him in the past. Ben Charlton is a developer working within the computing department, but has worked within the library systems team in the past (Kent has some kind of converged service). He, in conjunction with others, won a JISC competition to develop a HE web2.0 application. The competition was an off-shoot of the 'JISC Developer Happiness Days' event, where top software developers from HE can meet to collaborate on projects.

Ben has agreed that we can meet up (when the project has seen more development) for a chat and possibly a look at the application in action. Until then here is the prototype film to wet the appetite:

List8D from Mark Fendley on Vimeo.