Week 5, Thing 11 - Web 2.0 awards list

I explored most of the sites in the 'honorable mention' category for books on the SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards list. Librarything is awesome, but I've peeked ahead enough in the 23 things list to know we'll be exploring that later.

My new favorite site (courtesy of Seomoz's award list) is Coverpop. In the words of Coverpop's creator Jim Bumgardner, Coverpop is "is an interactive mosaic, made of tiny images." The mosaics are all put together with a theme, so it gives you a launching point to start a search for items of a similar type. These mosaics include covers of books, dvds, and even links to popular Youtube videos. Here are a few of my favorites (which would have a lot of use in a library setting!):

333 Non-fiction bestsellers - updated weekly - You can 'browse the shelves' of the most popular book covers all in one glance. If you find a title that catches your eye, you can mouse over to get author and title, or click on it and to get more information from amazon.com.

333 Fiction bestsellers - updated weekly - (same idea, with fiction book covers)

1001 Documentaries on dvd - Mouse over the DVD covers to see more information, click for amazon. The dvds on the left side of the mosaic are older and the ones on the right side are newer releases.

And just for fun... 500 gifts for geeks. I've spotted some things on that mosaic that I really need! ;)

Basically, Coverpop is a fun site for exploring for all kinds of new things through mosaics of thumbnail images.