BookLamp.org

Say hello to BookLamp, the "Pandora for books" as one digger put it.

Select a book you enjoy from a drop-down box(after registering), and BookLamp will give you algorithmic recommendations based on your input. The Captain Obvious in me must remind you that this service is in beta: the booklist isn't very long (in point of fact it's emaciated) and seemingly only encompasses science fiction so far.

Unlike Pandora, there is no search for the book list yet, although they do encourage your input to broaden the database. Still, the graphs are snazzy and well-thought, and dropdown recommendations are fairly precise.

The litmus test was selecting Isaac Asimov's Forward The Foundation, in which BookLamp projected that I'd like The Mindwarpers by Erik Frank Russell, and A Very Strange Trip by L. Ron Hubbard. Now I'm not saying I don't have an open mind, I just never thought I'd be recommended a Hubbard book, ever.

Dropbox Puts G:\Drive To Shame

I'm not ashamed to say it: I found this on Digg.

Dropbox is lucky MIT student Drew Houston's Golden Ticket to the Bigtime. It's a web-based synchronization center that already has seamless functionality on both Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X 10.x, has all its interface built-in to the native API, and is therefore literally drag and drop simple.

Do you want to share folders virtually between computers without the hassle of WAN or VPN? Done. Do you want to share them with your friends? OK. Would you like to post a URL for the cloud? Sure, here you go.

In the words of the smartest girl I know, after seeing the video: "I mean, like, damn. This is the shit."

Yeah. Like, damn.

Dropbox