Saturday, July 28, 2007

Week 9, Thing 19

For this exercise, I chose the "retail" category from the Web 2.0 Awards list. From that list, I chose to explore a site called "Etsy". It is referred to as "Your Place To Buy And Sell All Things Handmade". What luck - some on line shopping for an assignment! No problem navigating the site at all - it was very well constructed. Most of the work was to select a category, then click on the photo image. Product details displayed, along with price and payment methods accepted. Mostly point and click. The items for sale were quite nice - some very unique - and all handmade. There were a lot of categories - ranging from accessories to candles to handbags to ceramics and much more. I thought of going the extra mile for the assignment and ordering something, but decided not to.

The sad news is that I did not see any applications for its use in a library setting!

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