Hello NGC4Lib,
I have been doing some serious mash-up work, and have created a
"book-rating-reading-rabbit" for our library. Oh and he twitters too...
You can see him in action at:
http://blip.tv/file/1915639
The techy bit:
The Rabbit if of course a nabaztag/tag from Violet.
I used the Amazon AWS to go from the UPC to the desired info.
The barcode scanning comes from barcodepedia.com (I used a slightly
changed edition of their flash-thingy).
The glue that keeps it together runs on our webserver, and is all simple
php, curl, and the above mentioned flashfile.
You can try it for yourself at: www.niaslinc.dk/kalle although I you
won't get to see or hear the rabbit spring into action, he will post
what he read aloud to his twitter stream at:
http://twitter.com/kalle_kanin. He also logs any visitors to our
website: http://www.asiaportal.info
I've always wanted a small "magical amazon review box" in my library,
where you could get extra info just by scanning a book. But I guess I
had to build one myself before I got it :-)
Regards,
- Bernd.
Received on Tue Mar 24 2009 - 21:36:15 EDT