OK, I'm not sure how useful this is for an academic library (though I
imagine it being a hit in the children's dept of a public library),
but this is pretty neat. Is your code available? I'm almost willing to
fork out $99 for one of these just to try it out.
Edward
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Bernd T. Wunsch
<Bernd.T.Wunsch_at_nias.ku.dk> wrote:
> Hello NGC4Lib,
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> 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...
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> You can see him in action at:
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> http://blip.tv/file/1915639
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> The techy bit:
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> The Rabbit if of course a nabaztag/tag from Violet.
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> I used the Amazon AWS to go from the UPC to the desired info.
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> The barcode scanning comes from barcodepedia.com (I used a slightly
> changed edition of their flash-thingy).
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> The glue that keeps it together runs on our webserver, and is all simple
> php, curl, and the above mentioned flashfile.
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> 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
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> 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 :-)
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> Regards,
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> - Bernd.
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Received on Tue Mar 24 2009 - 22:34:45 EDT