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Shelfari is a social
cataloging website. Shelfari users build virtual bookshelves of
the titles they own or have read, and can rate, review, tag, and discuss
their books. Shelfari was launched on October 11, 2006[1]. In
February 2007, Amazon.com invested $1 million in
Shelfari,[2] and
moved to acquire it a year later in August of 2008.[3].
Criticism
Shelfari has received bad press for its "Invite Friends" page.
Jesse Wegman, writing in The New York Observer in
October 2007, complained that because he had "accidentally failed
to uncheck the approximately 1,500 names in my Gmail address book
that Shelfari had helpfully pre-checked", the system caused
invitations to be sent, contrary to his intentions but "ostensibly"
from his own address, to his entire network of contacts.[4] In
November 2007, Shelfari was accused of astroturfing by Tim Spalding, the creator
of LibraryThing, a
competing social networking book site.[5] In a
comment on another blog critical of Shelfari (primarily criticizing
the "invitations" system), Josh Hug, the CEO, blamed the
astroturfing on an intern not knowing better, and said that it had
stopped.[6]
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