Great article (found via Steven Cohen’s Library Stuff blog) on LibraryThing. While some competitors have recently entered the same type of niche (such as Shelfari), noone does it better than Tim Spalding, Abby Blachly, and others at LibraryThing.
Link to A Cozy Book Club, in a Virtual Reading Room – New York Times
This past Saturday I logged into iChat and saw that Tim Spalding was online as well, so I sent him a request to do a video chat. (For those of you unlucky enough to not be Mac owners, well, this kind of interaction is a piece of cake!) Tim accepted my invitation and he and I were able to have a brief conversation. Abby Blachly was there too, in the background, so I got to say hi to her as well. It was nice because none of us has ever met in person. One of the things I asked them was why on earth they appeared to be hard at work on a Saturday?! Turns out they were just minutes away from hosting the first official LibraryThing barbeque/picnic. Wish I could have been there!