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== Background ==
OttoBib.com was started as a hobby project in 2006 by Jonathan Otto, a then 4th year undergraduate at the [[University of Wisconsin–La Crosse]], USA<ref>[http://www.neobinaries.com/apps/Category/Search%20Engines/OttoBib.aspx Web 2.0 Application Listings] -- About the company</ref>. It was originally called "That's Crazy Hot!" but the name was quickly changed to OttoBib because the original title was "not suitable for the academic environment and consequently won't take off."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://jonathanotto.com/2006/1/13/21/55/Thats-Crazy-Hot | title = That's Crazy Hot! | date = January 13, 2006 | author = Jonathan Otto | work = OttoBib Blog | accessdate = 2007-02-20 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20061101041332/http://jonathanotto.com/2006/1/13/21/55/Thats-Crazy-Hot <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2006-11-01}}</ref>
The original inspiration for the site came from [[Seth Godin]]'s January 3, 2006 blog post on "Stuck Systems", where he wrote:
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"A quick online search didn't turn up what seemed obvious to me: a free service that would allow a writer to type in all the ISBNs used in creating a paper and then generate two things:
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:1. a bibliography based on looking up the data
:2. a web page that would allow the reader/teacher to see the books, their covers... etc."<ref>[http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/01/stuck_systems.html Stuck systems] January 03, 2006 post on [[Seth Godin]]'s Blog</ref>
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OttoBib.com performs the two basic functions outlined.<!--It does not seem to perform the second (it does via permalink)--> Marcus P. Zillman, an Internet information retrieval consultant and speaker said "this website is the start of a new paradigm of citing sources."<ref>[http://zillman.blogspot.com/2006/12/ottobib-free-auto-bibliography.html Internet Happenings, Events and Sources] December 11, 2006 post by Marcus P. Zillman, accessed December 24, 2006</ref> [[Jason Clarke]], a writer and web developer, said OttoBib is a "tool that solves a simple problem in a simple manner."<ref>[http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/09/20/ottobib-automatic-bibliographies-for-back-to-schoolers/ Downloadsquad review] posted Sep 20th 2006 by [[Jason Clarke]]</ref>
==Developments==
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