We have been interested in the great interest expressed in xISBN. It receives heavy traffic and seems to show how useful an easily recombinable web service can be.
Thom compares the newer thingISBN service on LibraryThing with xISBN.
Richard Wallis shows xISBN and thingISBN working with a couple more web services.
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