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Social Bookmarking

Page history last edited by Magda 14 years, 6 months ago

 

                                                                                                                                                     

 WHAT IS SOCIAL BOOKMARKING?

 

Nowadays, technology gives users the chance to categorize, store, share, and search webpages in an easier and faster way by using social bookmarkings such as del.icio.us  or digg.

Users link webpages of their interest to their bookmarks using tags ((keywords that allow easy searching and grouping of content).   However, the benefit of social bookmarking goes beyond storing websites since the stored information can be shared either to friends, family, coworkers or complete strangers.

The information that exists in the bookmarks can be seen by others chronologically, by category or tasks, or via a search engine anywhere in the world.  It can be added to others’ bookmarks or shared with even more users.

HISTORY

It starts in 1996 with the launch of the website Lists.com. It was the first site to use the concept of shared bookmarks. 

A few years later some companies such as Backflip, Blink, Clip2, Hotlinks and Quiver followed this idea. However these companies failed to make an impact on the market due to the dot com crash in 2001.

In 2003 del.icio.us launched its own tag related social bookmarking site. In a short period of time this company expanded very quickly, and this led to other companies to follow its lead. So in the next years other companies such as Simpy, Furl, Stumbleupon, Netvouz, Diigo, Digg, Reddit, Newsvine joined the dispute and expanded on the principles of social bookmarking.

At the present, Social Bookmarking is growing very fast. This is happening because users have realized they can gather information on specific topics from a single source.

 

TYPES

There are two different main types of social bookmarking sites: voting sites and the standard sites.

 

  • Voting sites, such as Digg, Stumble, Upon and Mixx  allow users to vote for the bookmarks of others and create a ranking on the site itself. Basically whoever's   bookmarks are found interesting are voted for and then ranked according to how many votes they have received.   The ultimate goal   is to get enough votes to be on the front page, which gives the most exposure.
  • Standard social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, furl, Blinklist and Ma.gnolia. allow users merely store and share their bookmarks with others.  These bookmarks  can serve a specific purpose and are found to be quite useful to users.

ADVANTAGES

·         It allows you to target what you want to see.

·         You can stay current and see relevant information.

·         It can be accessed from any computer at anytime.

·         Share pages with others

·         Interact with others on content of interest

 

 

DISADVANTAGES

·         There is not a standard set of keywords.

·         There is not a standard for the structure of the tags.

·         There may be mistagging.

·         There may be confusing tags.

 

 

WHY USE SOCIAL BOOKMARKING?

Look at the following video that explains the reasons to use social bookmarking.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU 

 

WHY WOULD WE USE SOCIAL BOOKMARKING IN THE CLASSROOM?

·         To make students share information of their interest.

·         To help them organize information by using tags.

·         To have an own personal bookmark

    

HOW TO USE IT? 

 

To use any kind of social bookmarking you have to suscribe in it; in other words create an account.

 

In order to create an account, it is necessary to:

 

1. go the home page

2. click the get started or register link

3. choose a user name and a password

4.fill in your e-mail address

5. click the register button

 

Depending on the kind of bookmarking the steps may change fron the second one.  You jus need to fiil in the form that is presented.

WEBSITE RESOURCES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialbookmarking/a/bookmarking_gs.htm

http://www.interactiveinsightsgroup.com/blog1/ultimate-guide-to-delicious-social-bookmarking/ 

Social bookmarking that you can subscribe to:

http://wwww.digo.com/

http://delicious.com

 http://digg.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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