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If you are into any of the social bookmarking discussions, you must go out and buy Peter Morville’s new book Ambient Findability .
"How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability. In other words, anyone can find anything at any time. Complete navigability. "
This is a must read book for anyone remotely interested in the whole social networking topic. The book is extremely small (204 pages), and chapter 2 is there only for background info. Don't expect the book to solve and of the social networking questions, as it is more of a synopsis of the problem space.
The ironic thing about the book is actually trying to find it in you local bookstore (yeah I know I’m linking to Amazon in this post, but after shipping on a book this small it almost nets out to the same price, if you are not buying other items too). Most books stores seem to carry it, but the problem is FINDING it. Borders shelves it in the "Computer Industry & History" section which doesn't seem to be the logical place for it (IMHO). I had to go to 3 different stores (2 Borders and 1 B&N) before a sales associate could actually find the book, even though it was listed as in stock (with multiple copies). LOL
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