I launched 22books six days ago now and wanted to blog a brief update. So far I have been pretty happy with the response, most people have complimented the UI, and most importantly lots of people have told how easy it is use. I submitted the site to a handful of web application directory style sites and blogs and that has driven a little bit of traffic, right around 2,500 visits. I plan on doing a post about what has worked and what hasn’t from the promotion stand-point.
I just pushed out an update to the site that allows you to assign a category to your list (like favorites, author list, etc). One of the categories was inspired by Ben Carey who created a list called “Books that changed my life”. Another user followed his example and I really liked the idea so I wanted to encourage more people to do it.
I have a many more features planned (and need to update the site to Rails 2.0), but I am going to take some time off for the holidays (although I might work some after Christmas).
-James
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time off? lame. jk.
I like the idea of categories. I like the idea of tags even better.
I also like the idea of dropping in my amazon ID so I can catch a few $ if users link from my book list out to amazon.com, etc.
another one – rss feeds…it’d be cool to see new books coming into the system via my google reader.
comments! I didn’t see that feature either.
also, I hear erlang is all the rage these days, maybe rewrite it in that instead of upgrading to rails2.0 — again, jk.
happy holidays james. go infozerk!
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