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.""

Comments

de.icio.us

[blackicye]

I highly recommend anyone who hasn't yet visited this site to check it out.

A good place to look is the page of "popular" sites. Some strange and interesting stuff turns up there fairly routinely.

Stuff like how to cut (i.e. vegetables, meats etc) and Chess strategies among other sometimes bizarre sites.

http://del.icio.us/popular/

This is great and all

[hsmith]

but how long before it is filled with spam links, ads, ect? i don't see how they are going to keep it clean

Re:This is great and all

[maotx]

but how long before it is filled with spam links, ads, ect?

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:

• http://del.icio.us/tag/security
• http://del.icio.us/tag/simpsons
• http://del.icio.us/tag/humor

Is this the beginnings of...

[MentalMooMan]

A massive global pr0n database?

A manually operated webcrawler.

[OneDeeTenTee]

With a few hundred million regular users could this sort of thing compete with search engines?

Or would it just become a handy place that search engines would mine for data?

One bookmark to rule them all

[Saeger]

I got tired of micromanaging and losing bookmarks long ago, so now I just use Google to store my bookmarks and use my brain to store the short keywords that matter.

Not keeping tons of bookmarks is also a good way to reduce info-overload: you only remember the stuff that matters. No more feeling compelled to check up on hundreds of old links (and then cleaning house of the dead ones yet again).

wow, not a fluff piece

[Fox_1]

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.

Yeah, I'll Bookmark This.

[CheeseburgerBlue]

Probably read it later.

Second part

[Teja]

here is the second part of the article

Re:wow?

[starphish]

I love del.icio.us. The only reason I use Firefox over Safari is because of del.icio.us. I have the same live bookmarks on my bookmarks toolbar on my PC, Mac, and work PC, without having to import them when I make changes on one computer. If I bookmark something at work, it shows up on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar at home.

Also, I have a live bookmark on my mother's, and on a friend's computer. All I have to do is tag something as "Mom", or "Joel", and it will show up in their bookmarks in Firefox.

When my 70 year old mom asks, "Where can I get cheap ink cartridges?", I will add a bookmark to her Firefox. All remotely.