2.0 Award winners

Meebo.com

We all know that chatting is very popular and that people often have 2 or more chatting accounts. Meebo is a web-based version for chat accounts that will allow you to login into either one or all your accounts at one time. I remember the days of trillan and perhaps trillan is still around, but I just remember that AOL did not like to play with trillan and would always end up messing things up. Also, I remember that trillan was considered a no no by the companies who at that time had chat programs. Now it looks like it is quite supported. Meebo is very easy to use and is an alternative for those at the reference computers who insist on chatting. Since it is web-based nothing has to be downloaded and they can proceed. I've actually seen a meebo widget on a library web-page for library chat and this way you don't have to have an aol and yahoo account - one meebo account will suffice and you can chat with anyone and not be restriced by their chat service of origin.

Another award winner that I love and use with a great degree of frequency is last.fm. This site allows you to listen to music that you like! While I like the discovery of online radio stations, i can at times get fed up with the commercials or having to listen to music I detest while listen to stations that I generally like. On last.fm, you can choose a band and then listen to a station of similar artists. It makes recommendations and the best part is, if you don't like a song - you can skip it! Also, there are no commercials. If you sign up for one of their free accounts, the create a station for you based on your likes and dislikes. Like amazon suggesting books, but here -- you actually get to listen to the music in its entirety. To fine tune this you can express you like or dislike for songs as they play. I've actually discovered quite a few new artists - from strangely enough Sweden as of late. Its also a social network where you can share with your friends who also have accounts. I love it.