Web 2.0 Award nominee: Library 2.0 Activity #24

After browsing several, and getting a site whose domain was taken over by another, I settled on esnips.com. It bears many resemblances to flickr and de.li.cio.us, but what I liked about it was that it catered to literary and painting, as well as performing arts, content. It allows different sizes for viewing the images. It also offers customizable widgets, which makes it easier to share playable files, without the usual itunes/media player incompatibility issues. Above all, it offers 5 GB of free online storage. Many library patrons on our PCs have problems losing their files when the PCs time out. The PC may not have any office software installed. Or they may not have a thumb drive or flash drive to upload their files to. It makes sense to create everything and store it online, where it can be accessible from any PC, any time, with plenty of storage space to work with. I like the community categories, with opportunity to create more. My main issue might be with privacy (one person complained that her folder had been snapped up by another tagging site) and the amount of advertising on each page, though their pages are considerably less cluttered than those of MySpace. I think library patrons should be made more aware of web services, especially online storage and content posting and sharing sites.