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Search all fields / review improvements
I’ve made improvements to two areas—searching and reviews. Searching all fields. I admit it: the old searching capabilities were weak. The new ones are better, but not perfect. Under the Search tab...
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Permanent links for books
Every day more bloggers are choosing LibraryThing as the place they link to when they mention a book, bypassing commercial sites and their product pages. They’re doing this despite an arbitrary and...
View ArticleLibraryThing hits 3 million books
Another big milestone: LibraryThing hit 3,000,000 books today! The pace is quickening. Fridays are the slowest days, but LibraryThing users still added 15,000 books to their catalogs—and 20,000...
View ArticleSlow-downs
Sorry about the slow-downs today, which occasionally resulted in server overloads (very long page-loads). This is in part related to recent traffic increases, and in part to imperfect optimization. I...
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Library Mashup Competition
Over on the LibraryThing “ideas” blog, Thingology, I’ve blogged about the “Mashing up the Library” competition, a Talis-sponsored contest for the most interesting library-oriented mashup. They’re...
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Announcing LibraryThing Mobile
It’s very hard to take a photo of a mobile phone screen. This is what the screens look like on a decent phone. I’m very excited to announce LibraryThing for your mobile phone! (I don’t know know about...
View ArticleOttowa Citizen does the LibraryThing
UPDATE: This isn’t new. Somehow when I did an edit I hit “save as draft” not “publish,” so this went into hiding for a few days. Apologies to RSS people, whom I think will see it pop up again. This...
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thingISBN, LibraryThing’s first API
Over on LibraryThing’s Thingology blog, I blog the unveiling of thingISBN, LibraryThing’s first API. thingISBN is LibraryThing’s “answer” to OCLC‘s xISBN—give it an ISBN and it will give you ISBNs to...
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Take the LibraryThing Tour!
So you might not make it to Italy this summer – that’s ok, you can take a tour of LibraryThing instead! We knew a simple intro to LibraryThing was something we were severely lacking, and inspired by...
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“The Book Guys” radio show does the LibraryThing
The Book Guys, Allan Stypeck and Mike Cuthbert, interviewed me about LibraryThing for their most recent radio show, airing around the country, mostly this weekend. Here’s a station list, with times. Or...
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Our poor moose
We interrupt this features blog just as Abby and I were interrupted today—by an enormous moose. No kidding. If you don’t know already, LibraryThing is located in Maine. But we’re on the East End of...
View ArticleMorning downtime
UPDATE: 2:30pm. It’s back up again, albeit a little slow as it builds up a “cache.” No data was lost. The main server went down last night around 5am. The situation is NOT serious. The slave server...
View ArticlePoets & Writers does the LibraryThing
The new issue of Poets & Writers has an article on LibraryThing, Strangers Meet in Virtual Libraries, by C. Max Magee (blog). It’s tackles the social side of LibraryThing nicely, drawing on an...
View ArticleThe WSJ Online does the LibraryThing
A big feature release is coming soon. Until then, sorry for covering all these press mentions, but they’re starting to snowball, I hope. The Wall Street Journal’s Online Edition just did a long,...
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Slow Afternoon
The site is slow now – we know, and we’re working on it. We got an influx of users today, thanks to the Wall Street Journal article and a Boing Boing reference. Traffic is ridiculously high (almost 15...
View ArticleScheduled downtime: 12am EST
LibraryThing will be going down for some well-deserved rest at 12am EST. I expect the downtime to last between 30mins and 1 hour.
View ArticleIntaglectuals 1: Kevin Kelly
I’ve been meaning to write up my thoughts on what I heard at Book Expo America or listened to recently online—Kevin Kelly, Chris Anderson, David Weinberger and (maybe) Carly Fiorina. This started out...
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WineThing?
No, I didn’t build “WineThing.” I did think about it once, shortly after LibraryThing was born. I figured I’d stick to books.* But somebody did it, and did it rather well. The site is Cork’d...
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Library Mashup Competition
The library vendor Talis just announced a library mashup competition. It’s a pretty wide-open thing. You can use any source you want–Google, Amazon, OCLC, Z39.50*–and do anything you want, so long as...
View ArticleThe Long Tail
There’s an article in today’s New York Times, “What Netflix Could Teach Hollywood“, that’s essentially about the long tail of movies.* David Leonhardt writes about The Conversation, a Francis Ford...
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