Geir Freysson - The Internet Industrialist » Wajapi http://www.geirfreysson.com Blogging about the web, running an Icelandic start-up and life in general Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:16:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Wajapi connects with Facebook http://www.geirfreysson.com/2009/10/wajapi-connects-with-facebook/ http://www.geirfreysson.com/2009/10/wajapi-connects-with-facebook/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:00:00 +0000 geir http://www.geirfreysson.com/?p=924 wajapi_and_facebookToday I can announce that Wajapi has become a Facebook application.

This means you can:

  • Log on to Wajapi with your Facebook details by clicking one button
  • Sign up for Wajapi by clicking one button
  • Connect your current Wajapi account to your Facebook account
  • Automatically share Wajapi books with your Facebook friends

Below is a screenshot of a book added on Wajapi appearing in a Facebook news feed:

Wajapi is not a Facebook-only application. It’s still a standalone website you can use to keep track of books whether you are on Facebook or not.

If you are on Facebook however, we recommend you give the Wajapi and Facebook connection a spin.

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I’ve put together a list of the best “big picture” business books I’ve read in the past years to demonstrate Wajapi tags and to illustrate a nifty feature I call javascript widgets (for more on js widgets, see below).

The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond: The best analysis I’ve read on the impact of open source on business models and software, written by uber geek, open source promoter and gun enthusiast(!) E. Raymond.

The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman or as I call it “globalization happened, get over it”. Another interesting read for those interested in open source and how it affects business.

The Pirate’s Dilemma by Matt Mason: Why are you reading Lawrence Lessig when you could be reading Matt Mason? Mason was a pirate radio and club DJ in London, and later became founding Editor-in-Chief of the magazine RWD. Who cares if he thinks Linux is a corporation? Read this book!

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – the core message of this book is “shit happens, wear a helmet” and it explains why financial risk models don’t work, why you should go to networking events and how the movie business is similar to the VC industry.

The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen: Of all the five books this is the most academic and best researched. Clayton’s insight into disruptive technologies has far reaching implications for any business.

Wajapi tip: Every user’s profile page and every tag on Wajapi has a javascript widget attached to it. The list above is created by pasting the following code into the blog post:

<script src="http://www.wajapi.com/geir/tags/top_business.widget"> </script>

If I go back to Wajapi and update the list, the list on this page changes. Yay.

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We’ve updated Wajapi so that registered users can change the Amazon locale Wajapi uses to search. All Amazon supported locales have been added. These are:

  • Amazon.com
  • Amazon.co.uk
  • Amazon.fr (new)
  • Amazon.de (new)
  • Amazon.ca (new)
  • Amazon.co.jp (new)


We don’t have any users coming in from as far east as Japan yet, but at least now they can! Click on the screenshot above to see search results for “Harry Potter” in Japanese.

To get search results in Japanese, register on the site and pick amazon.co.jp as your “amazon region”.

I’ve also added the German version of Harry’s book 7, Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes to my own booklist on Wajapi, as you can see on the sidebar to the right.

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