I've run my eye over the Web 2.0 award winners recently. 
They all seem to be one way or another of finding like minded individuals. No wonder all the drums in this town are closing down.
The best one I found was Last.fm. This site helps you find music that suits your tastes based on information you submit. From what I found the recommendations were pretty good, although I had already heard of most of the outfits listed. 
Heaven knows how you could use this in Libraries, but it's does to micro-blogging what the electric cure does to the Johnson Brothers.

Sorry about the lack of communication recently, but I've been out of town working on another case.
This word processing business is all a bit strange to me. Where I come from a typewriter is something you use to take care of your enemies. They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but in this case the typewriter can fill the word processor with daylight.
I prefer Google Docs to Zoho, after all Zoho sounds like Zoro's Gypsy cousin.
The way you can write and save documents while away from the office is certainly handy, but then you can do most of this with Gmail. It's the spreadsheets which are really good, just right for keeping track of expenses when you're out of the city, those used slugs and saps really hurt your overheads if you don't keep track of them.

 

Why would any PI wanting to keep a low profile use Bebo or Facebook when you have to login to view the profiles? You don't have to with Myspace. 
I see some scratcher has set up a Myspace page in my name. I can't imagine why anyone would want to try to impersonate me. He was even too afraid to use his own mush in the profile.
 

It was another quite day in the office, so I decided to open up the filing cabinet. It doesn't hold much, I mainly use it to help add to my dust collection. I found an old case, some tomato had asked me to look into some Libraries using web 2.0. At first I thought this web 2.0 case must have been something to do with people trying to appear with it by using a flash sounding monicker for something that was as new as George Washington's teeth. Some of these libraries really had things sorted out, I was impressed. But how you convince some sap to use these web sites and so on, when they can't use a self issue machine I don't know.
As a run of the mill sleuth trying to find out information I like to keep my expenses down as much as possible. After all there's no point shelling out any more spinach than you have to. That's why I personally like the libraries that aren't quite so savvy. There is certainly no shortage of them Abington, JMU, International University College and Hartford Union High School are four but there are plenty of others. These guys sign up for trial access to databases, then publish the usernames and passwords on their websites, talk about patsies. 

I was siting in the office on the sixth floor of the Cahuenga Building and decided to treat myself to a steaming mug of cream of artificial flavouring soup. I started thinking about how easy it is for any two bit sleuth to find out information these days. Take these so called tagging set ups. Aparently any wise guy can put the finger on a particular website and tell their friends how great it is. Now this old fashioned gum-shoe may have been the subject to a few too many Brodericks, but I find there just isn't any substitution for a good old fashioned stake out. The proper search startegy will give you all the dope you'll ever need. I'm just not willing to trust any old shyster to try to sell me some info, and swear that it's all on the square.
Mind you if I wanted to make some sort of trip for biscuits to find someone to drink out of the same bottle with, then I suppose these rackets might not be such a bad idea. After all you try to pick up a skirt these days using any of the convetional methods and you're liable to find someone carrying a gat and end up wearing a wooden kimono.