#19

I looked at the short list of Just Winners of Web 2.0 Awards. This list has the top three tools by category. Ten of the winners were tools we have been exploring in Learning 2.0. Another (Meebo) is used extensively by the Ref Desk librarians; another (Yelp) was mentioned in a comment posted to my blog. Looks like we've been learning about good things!
For no apparent reason, I choose "Events" as my category. The three winners were Upcoming, Eventful, and Confabb. I actually thought the second-ranked tool, Eventful, was the best. It had a lot more stuff than Upcoming and was easy to use. Confabb only lists conferences and you have to actively search. The first two went straight to Lincoln on the opening screen. One thing I found interesting on Upcoming was the Lincoln Photowalk and Flickrmeet on April 13. Our local group has 240 members and a photo gallery of 4094 photos--probably more by now!
I think this has limited usefulness for libraries. It could be another place to list events or bookclubs. Confabb could be useful to check out conferences. It strikes me as a networking resource.