Goowy

I decided to take a look at Goowy - an online desktop. This seems kind of like what I heard referred to as a Portal (kind of a one stop shopping experience). Creating the account was a snap and it seemed fairly easy to use. Goowy enables you to access most of your web 2.0 applications, email, IM, etc. from one website. I also was impressed that it had 1 GB of free storage. I could see libraries doing something similar. Right now you can access your account to see what you have checked out or on hold, but in the future these accounts could be personalized. Customers could create accounts that not only accessed their library records, but updated them on new movies or books based on their preferences. It could have a calendar where they could record the library programs they want to go to and it would then alert them to the upcoming event. Customers could save their favorite websites. . . Heck, they could even have the free virtual storage! How many people still come to the library unprepared to save the documents that they are creating. "But I saved it on the computer!!!!"