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I just joined Shelfari “an interactive social media site for book lovers. Using Shelfari, you can create a personal shelf of your books, see what your friends are reading, get and give recommendations for what to read next, create book lists, and even share your opinion on a book with friends or the growing Shelfari community.” And I am super super excited about it being an avid reader and always looking to find new books to read and finding new books through the recommendations of others.

I worked at a library for nearly 3/4 years and consistently stole their Publisher’s Weekly and Book Review Digest to find the newest and most interesting books, so finding an online network where I can read the reviews of others and post my own is exciting.

Except for one thing.

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Colourlovers has finally commented on Adobe’s kuler nearly 8 months since it’s launch. I’ve long used colourlovers as inspiration for new color schemes when I hit a color-block. Colourlovers first launched in 2004 building and strong community following and adding more and more neat features as time passed. Adobe’s kuler launched November of 2006 offering another fantastic resource for those looking for color inspiration. The argument here though isn’t who does it best, or who has the coolest features (each site wins different rounds in that aspect) – it’s the fact that Adobe has clearly borrowed their kuler site idea from colourlovers and despite being contacted by the owner of colurlovers has made no attempt to remedy the situation.

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