The Wajapi Book Blog

Today we 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.

When you’ve found people on Wajapi and you want to know what they’re reading, you can now easily add your friend feed to iGoogle, MSN Live, Yahoo, Netvibes and others with the click of a button!

All you have to do is click “follow” on the profile of the people you want to follow, select whether to add to Google, Yahoo or somewhere else and click go.

Now you can see whether your friends have updated their reading list on your preferred site!

Sign up and check it out!

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”.

We recently added atom feeds to the “people you follow” page in Wajapi (see my own follow page here as an example). You can now follow your friends reading lists on sites such as Yahoo and iGoogle by pasting the URL of the follow page into those services. The screenshot shows my own friends list in iGoogle.

Welcome to the Wajapi blog. Here we will post about new features on Wajapi as we launch them. We’ll also be blogging about books in order to show how Wajapi can be used. Stay tuned!