ome days, it seems that we the same concept as bookmarking
are quickly evolving from a favorites with your browser, but
digital world where the collection of favorites has a
information was THE marketable coding system and is shared with
commodity to a communications others. You build a library of
market, where new methods of URLs that reflect your interests
communicating, networking and and that you consider worth
socializing are being introduced visiting. You add a personal
on a rapid fire basis and are the "tag" with a keyword that
new consumers of online attention characterizes the site.
and time. Blogs, wikis, RSS
newsfeeds, podcasts, video You can "subscribe" to tags so
socialization built around that you see every new post with
applications like YouTube...all that tag. That in turn can take
of these are recently formulated you to the poster's entire list
methods of communication that of favorites which may prove to
seemingly overnight have be a new trove of information for
developed millions of you. del.icio.us allows you to go
participants. through the same exercise with
podcasts, which are now scattered
One of the networking across the Internet galaxy like
methodologies that has evolved asteroids.
from Internet architecture is the
phenomenon of "social Others on the web have access to
bookmarking." One of the more your library and thus to your
popular sites is del.icio.us. On personal interests. Utilizing a
this site the notion is that you, web based application (in this
the web surfer, share interests case, del.icio.us) participants
with others who have web access are able to search through sites
via your bookmarked URLs. It's that others have bookmarked,
using not only a standard search where you upload your travel
term but the tag that has been experiences, travel photos and
used to characterize the site. travel interests along with your
Tags form a collective body of profile. Wists (www.wists.com) is
URLs and thus, a body of a "social shopping" exchange
knowledge - and collective access where the bookmarks are all about
to those tags forms a community commercial shopping sites. The
of people with common interests. level of personal communication
Included in the process is an allowed by social networking
optional personal profile, which sites is up to you: on 43 Places
provides your email address and you can post your photo but
allow others to communicate with refuse personal email. You can
you personally. also hold the line at public
access to your favorites library
One of the drawbacks to this on del.icio.us.
format is that a tag search is
going to get you every commercial Other social bookmarking
website out there who has laid platforms (or tools) as they are
claim to the same keyword. It called, include:
takes a lot of scanning and
scrolling to find sites that have - Backflip
been tagged by individuals - Blinklist
instead of search engines. - blogmarks
- Connotea
There are several platforms out - de.lirio.us
there for social networking. - feedmarker
Flickr (www.flickr.com) is a site - Jots
that uses uploaded photos for - Lookmarks
networking purposes instead of - Scuttle
URLs. www.43places.com is a site - unalog
- Spurl lists of the most popular
- Simpy bookmarks and the recent posts.
- Wists It's all an interesting
- Yahoo! My Web 2.0 experiment in 'distance sharing'.
Making use of it for professional
They all have an assortment of (research) or personal uses
tricks and widgets that make simply requires taking the time
their sites a little different. to become comfortable with the
Some of them have fairly methodology and then learning how
sophisticated search methods for to get maximum usage out of the
their subscribed users; some tagging system.
allow you to "bundle" tags for
search purposes; most provide
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