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

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).

Yeah, I'll Bookmark This.

[CheeseburgerBlue]

Probably read it later.

Second part

[Teja]

here is the second part of the article