A Rabbit, a webcam, a Library and a webservice...

Hello NGC4Lib,

I have been doing some serious mash-up work, and have created a
"book-rating-reading-rabbit" for our library. Oh and he twitters too...

You can see him in action at:

http://blip.tv/file/1915639

The techy bit:

The Rabbit if of course a nabaztag/tag from Violet. 

I used the Amazon AWS to go from the UPC to the desired info. 

The barcode scanning comes from barcodepedia.com (I used a slightly
changed edition of their flash-thingy).

The glue that keeps it together runs on our webserver, and is all simple
php, curl, and the above mentioned flashfile.

You can try it for yourself at: www.niaslinc.dk/kalle although I you
won't get to see or hear the rabbit spring into action, he will post
what he read aloud to his twitter stream at:
http://twitter.com/kalle_kanin.  He also logs any visitors to our
website: http://www.asiaportal.info

I've always wanted a small "magical amazon review box" in my library,
where you could get extra info just by scanning a book. But I guess I
had to build one myself before I got it 

Regards,

-           Bernd.