OldSwitcheroo – The Web 2.0 Swap Meet
May 13, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Freebies, Movies & Television, Music & Audio, Shopping
I’ve got loads of old books, audio cassettes and VHS tapes and other media stashed in closets and boxes throughout the house. I’m a bit of a pack rack, especially when it comes to something that I spent good money on when it was new, even if it’s not worth quite that much now.
The Old Switcheroo website provides a Web 2.0 spin on what we used to call a swap meet in the little country town where I grew up.
Old Switcheroo is like any healthy relationship: it’s give and take. You give others your stuff, so that at some …read more
Goodreads – Social Networking for Readers
May 11, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Reference, Social Networking, Software & Online Apps
I’m totally jonesing for an Amazon Kindle. Sadly it’s another example of where in my opinion a product is being sold for too much, when dropping the price would help them sell exponentially more product. All that aside, a friend of mine just sent me a request to join him at the Goodreads website so we can recommend great books to each other.
The Goodreads website let’s you add books to your bookshelf in categories of Currently Reading, Read or To Read. You can write reviews of the books you’ve read and see the reviews other people have written about all …read more






