LendAround - Share your stuff with your FB buddies!
So, I guess I’m on a lending kick or somthin’. My last post highlighted ICanLendYouThat.com, a site that allows you to connect with your Twitter friends to share your books, CD’s, and DVD’s. Well, not long after that post, I came across LendAround, a perfect alternative for those of you who haven’t migrated over to Twitter yet (and what the heck’re ya waiting for??).
Though limited to specifically DVD sharing - and really, who has CD’s anymore anyway - LendAround offers a pretty slick web interface for listing out the DVD’s in your library. Plus, it has an integrated FaceBook app to make your lending and borrowing chores even easier - once you manage to get it set up that is. As with everything FaceBook, getting the tab up and running on your profile requires a little bit of hunting. Or you can just stick to their web interface. However, my big complaint there is that there doesn’t appear to be any means of connecting with friends who might already be using LendAround without just sending an invite.
Regardless, this would be a great thing to set up in your office, for example, to create a personal Netflix service. After all, how often do you really need to re-watch The Matrix? If you want it that badly, you can borrow my copy.
Tags: DVD Sharing
March 19th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Fascinating post, Danny.
We’ve actually built Twitter functionality at LendAround; in addition to letting your friends know what you have to lend, it also lets you broadcast things you’d like to borrow, and tells your followers when you’ve reviewed something you like.
Next week we’ll be rolling out deeper Facebook integration using Facebook Connect, which will mean Facebook friends will be able to join and start using LendAroudn in a single click.
March 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Cool Tim, thanks for sharing! Sorry, I guess I just missed that aspect when I wrote it up. Glad to hear you’ve taken Twitter into account.