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By Wired Blogs September 18, 2006 Categories: Other

You're not supposed to be social at the library — unless you're sending notes over SMS, you'll probably get shushed — so the next best place to talk about books is on the web.

Here's BookRevyoo, a social book review site for the Web 2.0 crowd. BookRevyoo isn't exclusively for a techier-than-thou audience, but most of the books featured on the site right now are of the Web 2.0 variety. Probably because the tech audience is the only audience using the site right now. Everyone else is over at that other book reviews site, Amazon.com.

Can BookRevyoo compete with Amazon? That's a very tough question. My first answer is no, but then I take a look at the audience that's embraced the site right away. The highest-rated books are on Ajax, videoblogging and search. Maybe BookRevyoo can succeed if they go after that niche and aim to become the definitive Web 2.0 book review site. Reviews by and for the tech audience. Otherwise, they'll likely fizzle.

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