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Social Bookmarking Services Revisited
pchere writes "Social bookmarking allows you share bookmarks publicly instead of restricting them to the browser favourites. Del.icio.us is such a fast growing community and its users have created a large number of del.icio.us tools to further enhance the service. Organization by tags allows for quick retrieval of sites by topics and bookmarks are available as RSS feeds. An article in D-Lib Magazine reviews the Social Bookmarking Tools to "remind you of hyperlinks in all their glory, sell you on the idea of bookmarking hyperlinks, point you at other folks who are doing the same, and tell you why this is a good thing.""
Sure, you could go to google's image search, but where else can you easily see, for instance, celebrity nipples or this category?
Just looking at an object, and seeing other tags at the same time is extremely addictive. You can quickly jump to and fro within this kind of taxanomy with little effort. With certain experiments, we've seen a user stickyness not noticed before. And using RSS to monitor a tag is a great way to keep updated on content that you're really interested in.
While http://flickr.com/>flickr.com fantastic, it is pretty generic, I suspect we'll all see a large group of sites dedicated to tagging almost anything (books, products) that are more specific and open to finding a small but vocal niche of people.
Newsfollow.com
I went to the article expecting another pseudo marketing piece, but whoa, what's there is quite a detailed analysis of social bookmarking, including a history of bookmarking that brought back my youth when mysterious programs named Archie and Gopher brought me internet content. Someone went through a lot of effort to put this together. There are some interesting conclusions drawn about the differences between search engines and places like slashdot,wiki..community sites where the ranking of the content is done either by machine (search engine) or individuals (community site). I found it interesting to hear a good explanation of why I stopped using bookmarks (when I used to have huge bookmark files) - it became easier to find the same site again through a search engine. Especially when bookmarks become outdated when URL's change.
The rock, the vulture, and the chain
If you would like to host a social bookmark script on your own server, you should try Scuttle
- Teja
here is the second part of the article
- Teja
There are many general social bookmark services available, but Digg (along with del.icio.us) is one of my favorites in that Digg focuses mainly on Tech related things. It is starting to become more and more popular and is really worth checking out.
- Teja
One of the benefits of Del.icio.us is that often the popularity of a particular link tells you something about its quality as a data source--but even better, since you can subscribe a a given user's bookmarks, you can use the link poster as another, more accurate, guide to data validity. I'd also like to point out for Mac OS users, that Buzz Andersen's free Cocoalicious is quite nifty, since it works even when the Del.iciou.us server is unavailable, and that Brent Spiner's news reader/aggregator NetNewsWire works well with Deli.icio.us, in part due to the magic of AppleScript, in part because one of its features allows you to subscribe to tag feeds from Del.iciou.us, Flickr, and Technorati.
I personally could care less. del.icio.us allows you to become a regsitered member (free) to have your own section of bookmarks. Only you can publish and customize to that section meaning that the only ads that show up will be the ones you put in there. You can then add a live bookmark in Firefox to the rss feed and have the last 30 links available to you anywhere you go. Rather I'm at home or at work I can keep my bookmarks together easily. del.icio.us will then keep a counter on how many people link to the same place and will give you the option of viewing other people's bookmarks who link to the same sites as you. They then take the most linked sites and place them at del.icio.us/popular. The only spam that will show up is the spam that you look for.
Some common feeds:
I'm a virgo and on Slashdot. Coincidence? Yes.
Do a google search for esconsult1 and w3matter (parent company of cityflicker - notice the correlation.
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Does del.icio.us (or the lesser known Open Source de.lirio.us) feature spammer protection? Or technorati tags, for that matter? How do people filter out spammers?
I keep thinking: "One of these days, the spammers are going to mess up this system."
You should use spurl.net - they have a sidebar panel (and bookmarklets) for Opera (and all other browsers) and they let me automatically add all the links to my delicious account. It's not perfect, but good enough for now, until Opera supports social bookmarking natively.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
Someone already beat you to it: Pornalicious
I guess things like backflip are coming back, but this time the services are useful. For one thing del.icio.us and Flickr have shown that embracing the developer community makes sense.
I think for most people, me included, bookmarking is easier and often provides more useful information to others than blogging, there is clearly overlap.
Services such as Wists which is somewhere between Flickr and del.icio.us are an example of a bookmarking systems that are complimentary to del.icio.us allowing people to bookmark things such as gadgets, complete with thumbnail images.
Bookmarking is lazy blogging, but if someone is good at spotting things but not so good at writing I'd much rather read what excites someone via their bookmarks than wade through their blog postings.