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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.""
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.
that..........????
Couldn't a page of links do the same thing?
but how long before it is filled with spam links, ads, ect? i don't see how they are going to keep it clean
The introduction of social bookmarking was ahead of its time. However, with the phenomena of blogging, podcasting, and the like, a revisiting of this idea is a welcome change to our never-ending search for better quality in our instant information-accessing ways. I see some mention about this topic of likening social bookmarking to a search engine, but I fail to see it. A search engine starts with the assumption you have a big pile of mess you need to plod through to find what you want, and casts the widest net possible to do it. While social bookmarking also addresses this assumption, the search for the content you want does not begin in a randomized mess. I have also heard the phrase P2P for categorized search engines, allowing each person who participates to do some of the sorting for you, saving you from the cast-the-widest-net-possible approach of our most popular search engines; a seemingly valid point. I can see social bookmarking doing for searching what RSS did for syndicated news online. I, quite frankly, hope it does.
The Crimson Dragon
But these are "registered" sites.. they require at least a user name to get in...so it should be easy to limit spammers... after all, a normal person is going to have a 10-1 follow-to-post ratio... because you'd be following existing links more than making new ones. if somebody shows up dumping links it would be pretty easy to spot.
The problem with digg though is that half of the postings are about Techtv or people who worked at Techtv. I've also seen a lot of abuse with people linking to their blogs instead of the actual article. It's spam like that which makes digg more frustrating to me than useful.
I still use it though.
Read about it here, thought it was as important as the invention of the wheel (Spin). Went to go use it, found out otherwise.