Yasiv...Heard of It?

by Nancy Sackheim

If the answer is yes, then you can probably skip this little bit of nonrequired reading, and head straight to yasiv.com to find your next great read or, if you're an author, you can also use Yasiv to boost readership for your just-published novel/memoir/syfy gothic misanthropic romantic trilogy. 

For the rest of you, Yasiv is a very cool, user-friendly, and absolutely free visualization tool developed by Andrei Kashcha utilizing Amazon products.  To begin, open yasiv.com, enter a book title (or any other item, for that matter) that is sold on Amazon, and watch the magic as every possible connection to that book populates your screen creates a spiderweb of interconnectedness. 

I've given you the location and the first step.  Now go have some fun figuring out all the ins and outs of this nifty tool and how it might best work for you as a reader and/or writer.  My recommendation...spend some time on the site, as well as explore some of the other more technical blogs that have been written about this Amazon visualization tool.