#8 - Peer Services: Comments, Ratings & Reviews
Learning Objectives
- Learn about Web sites that allow browsers/customers post comments, reviews and product and/or service ratings.
- What is "collaborative filtering"?
Skills Practice
- Visit Amazon.com and post a comment/rating for a book that you have read recently.
- Locate few Web sites that allow user driven comments and reviews
- Visit LibraryThing and catalog some of your own books online, comment on someone elses personal collection.
Experience Sharing
- Discuss your experiences by posting to your 2.0 Learningblog.
- How could this type of participation be applied in the library?
Resources
- "United We Find." The Economist (March 12, 2005)
- Neal Wyatt, 2.0 for Readers (Library Journal 11/1/2007)
- Pew Internet & American Life Project, "The Use of Online Reputation and Rating Systems."
- How Amazon.com's Recomendations Work and the Amapedia.
- Squidoo at http://www.squidoo.com/
- Epionions at http://www.epinions.com/
- Hotels.com and Travelocity
- "Learning 2.0: LibraryThing" by Helene Blowers
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