John Udell has an interesting post today. I can’t really summarize this, except to say that it’s really interesting and it’s the kind of neat trick what pulls the Internet forward.

Oh, and it makes me want to talk about books available on Amazon! I don’t know if anyone at Amazon or at weblog.com ever envisioned something like that when they put their API together. I doubt it. I think it just shows that creativity can’t be planned and that giving toys away to people will lead to wonderfully unexpected results.

Read on…

All Consuming

My referrer log led me to this page at All Consuming. Here’s the explanation:

This is a weblog detail page. It has information gleaned from Alexa.com, Google.com, and Amazon.com. Combining all of this information together, I can display a screenshot of the weblog, related sites according to Google, and products that have appeared on this website in the past.

Beautifully done! Now you can vector through blogspace using books, as well as people, as the organizing metaphor. What a simple and beautiful idea!