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Week 04: Bookmarking
Step : Watch Social Bookmarking in Plain English
The following will provide tutorials, definitions and resources for Bookmark Sharing. You are not required to look at all of the material, but search it until you feel that you have a good understanding of what is required for you to fulfill the assignment.
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Social Bookmarking – Overview and Uses
Browsers usually have a feature which allows you to record a website that you like. But it is a list that is resident on that computer only.Social bookmarking is a way to upload and organize the sites you normally would ‘bookmark’ so that they are accessible and shareable at any time from any computer. To quote D-Lib magazine: (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html) “Just as long as those hyperlinks (or let’s call them plain old links) aremanaged, tagged, commented upon, and published onto the Web, they represent a user’s own personal library placed on public record, which – when aggregated with other personal libraries – allows for rich, social networking opportunities.”
- Wikipedia definition:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking) - Global School Net:
(http://www.globalschoolnet.org/center/bookmarks.html) - There are free services, and ones that have a cost.
- Ma.gnolia
(http://ma.gnolia.com/tutorial/SocialBookmarking)
Social bookmarking services
1. del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that has rapidly taken off even more in popularity since being purchased by Yahoo. I use del.icio.us probably the most out of all these top picks, particularly to post interesting sites that I’ve found around the Web. I also subscribe to quite a few del.icio.us tags, such as popular and reference, and I get all the sites tagged with these keywords in my RSS reader of choice, Bloglines.
2. Digg.com
Digg is social bookmarking and social networking gone a little crazy due to the fact that anyone can submit a Digg (site), and then anyone can comment on those same Diggs. For me the most interesting feature of Digg has to actually be the comments on the sites and stories, since the Digg community is not shy about letting folks know how they feel about a particular Digg. Primarily focussed on geeky, technology-type items.
3. Listible
Listible hasn’t been around very long, but already it’s one of my must-visit sites. Probably because I have a weird thing for lists. Anyone can start a list about pretty much anything; I’ve seen lists for Firefox extensions, TV theme songs, and much more. Listible users can rate the items on the list and add comments.
4. Furl
Furl, a service of LookSmart, gives users the ability to save copies of any Web page, search within your own personal archive of Web pages, and share what you find. People use Furl to create their own personal shopping lists, real estate directories, job searches, student research papers, etc. This may just sound like a fancy way of saying bookmarks; but the thing about Furl is that you can access it from any computer, which means that your Favorites will go with you.
Examples
coming soon
Links to Learning
- Video Tutorial on how to sign up for delicious
(http://www.viewletcentral.com/vc/viewlet.html?id=61655200)
Assignment
- Create delicious account
- Add several bookmarks to it
- Post a link to your bookmarks on your blog
- Post your blog link to the Computer Skills Week 4 Post
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