Thing 19--Discovering Web 2.0 tools

OK, it's raining this evening, there are no TV shows I care to see except The Closer, my ironing is done, and that gives me time to work on Thing 19. I looked at several of the Web 2.0 Awards nominees and played around with several. This exercise gave me the opportunity to play around on sites I knew existed but I had not looked at before. One of these was Google stuff like the maps. I plugged in addresses of out of town family and WOW, maps popped up quickly and they were correct too. Then I recognized some of the sites we had an exercise for (Technorati was one of those). I played around a site about widgets. Love those widgets. Since Hurricane Dean is ready to hit Mexico as a category 5, I created a Weather Channel widget. I am going to go back to that site again someday. I finally settled on Peertrainer. It was in the group with the health/medicine nominees. This is a site for weight loss and fitness support. It is free; it includes daily logs for meals and exercise, calorie charts, blogs of others with the same goals as one's own, success stories (good motivation), and good solid, information. I think this site would be helpful for those staff members at YPL who are participating in the health risk assessments.