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Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

joycelorenza — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:53:23 -0000

Comments about Social Bookmarking: Everyone knows that a bookmark is a handy way to remember a favorite web page so you don't have to waste time searching for it again in the vastness of cyberspace. Social bookmarking takes this concept to the next level, enabling Internet users to share their bookmarks with each other in a collaborative fashion. Most often this involves social bookmarking websites where users can create accounts and add their favorite bookmarks, along with keyword tags that help to organize the data and make it easy for others to search.You can think of social bookmarking as a tool to identify the coolest or most useful sites in a particular category, or a way to discover new resources. One person shares a bookmark, and the larger community makes a thumbs-up or thumbs-down decision. The cream rises to the top in a democratic manner, while the knowledge and horizons of many are expanded. The "folksonomy" created in the process makes the overwhelming amount of Web-based information increasingly easier to search and navigate over time.Another benefit of keeping your bookmarks on the Web is that you can access them from any computer, with any browser. If you're concerned about privacy, you can also make a bookmark private, so it's only viewable by you.
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Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Glockner — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:24:56 -0000

Great observations! Thanks for the feedback. Now I definitely intend on diving in to Diigo. If you wanted to expand this into a whole post here on scribkin, the offer is open. You can email me, phil (at) scribkin.com. Thanks!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Ashman — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:06:36 -0000

Just installed and played around with Diigo and I must say it has a slew of cool features. However a killer feature for me is the ability to be able to cache the web page if the link no longer exists.

When trying to figure if Diigo supported this feature, I saved a bookmark in Diigo and went to My Bookmarks online,. I saw a cached option underneath the bookmark, but it unfortunately just lead me to a page that said "this bookmark is not cached" and "click here to go to the original". I searched around for an way to force it to cache the page, and noticed that if I click on "comment on the whole page" from the Diigo toolbar THEN it caches my page along with my comment, or annotation as it seems to call it. Not sure if there is another way to force Diigo to cache the page, but this works.

Diigo certainly appears to be more powerful than Furl and I guess with Yahoo now owning it one can only hope it is here to stay.

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Glockner — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:55:07 -0000

Well, that's definitely strong recommendation for Diigo! I haven't even heard of it, to be honest. I was just about to switch over to using Furl.

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Andy C — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:03:36 -0000

Diigo is without doubt the best application in this space. Imagine del.ici.ous with a properly designed user interface. Diigo call themselves a 'research tool' which I initially scoffed at but it is superb and I iunderstand why academics and companies would like it.

The killer feature IMHO - you can highlight and comment on an individual sentence/paragraph. No more copy/past to cite the content of interest. Quicker, more efficient.

Diigo provide the standard toolbar for FF and IE and you csasn cross-post to del.ici.ous, blog and Twitter.

Also, importers exist for the legacy bookmarking tools described above ;-)

Worth a look.

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Glockner — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:14:37 -0000

Ah, I understand what you are saying. No, I don't think Furl does that.. it assumes after you have your existing bookmarks already in Furl, you would want to use that going forward.

However, I can tell you that the web browser Flock has built-in support for both del.icio.us and ma.gnolia, and you can save new bookmarks simultaneously locally and online.

http://www.scribkin.com/200...

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Ashman — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:46:25 -0000

When you say sync, do you mean going into Furl and manually importing your existing bookmarks? I think I had discovered that in the past, but never really looked into a way for my to sync behind the scenes like foxmarks. For instance if I add a bookmark/favority locally, then I need it to syncrhonize with my Furl account in the background at a regularly scheduled interval. Now that would be cool! Either way I do love the cached pages. I sometimes just take a snapshot of the news.google.com page just for posterity!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Glockner — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:49:41 -0000

Check this out: http://www.furl.net/doc/fea...
It appears that Furl saves pages (like waybackmachine) PLUS you can sync your existing bookmarks to it. Sounds like a win-win! Heck, I might move over to using it!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Glockner — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:28:48 -0000

I believe the *new* del.icio.us extension is specifically designed to get all your local firefox bookmarks in to del.icio.us. A word of warning though -- it is pretty heavy-duty -- it installs a sidebar and everything.

As for other extensions for other services, I'm still looking around, I'll let you know if you find anything cool. And let me know if you find anything! Thanks!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Ashman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:17:58 -0000

Great post by the way..;)

I love the concept of del.icio.us, but I just found that I didn't have the time or energy to visit the site and benefit from the social networking aspect. In addition I discovered that what I really wanted was a way to synchronize my favorites and share them with the world. Couldn't quite get del.icio.us to do that for me and had a bit of a mental block switching from my organized bookmark heirarchy to tags (I now use the firefox extension foxmarks to do this).

I use Stumbleupon mostly to channel surf the net when I feel like just vegging (not often enough these days!) and when I find a cool site I flag it, which will then share it with everyone in my FriendFeed and consequently all my friends on facebook. I don't use it a bookmark store per say, but if I find it it stumbleupon then I'll add it there and possibly add it to my local favorites.

However neither Stumbleupon or Delicious cache pages for you, so that is where Furl fits in for me. Finding an efficient fit for all these social networking apps is a neverending task....and somehow Kevin Rose manages to find time to go climbing almost every day!..;)

Do you know of an app that would allow me to share my local favorites in firefox and keep it synchronized?

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Glockner — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:21:15 -0000

I haven't tried Furl out yet.. how would you compare it against del.icio.us or stumbleupon?

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Glockner — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:20:18 -0000

Thanks for visiting! Keep me on your radar, I try to post new reviews and primers weekly.

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Ashman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:01:24 -0000

I like to use the bookmarking site FURL. I think it's kind of similiar to Magnolia, but I like the interface and the ability to save the pages is awesome. Over the past little while, I've used the social bookmarking thing as a simple way of saving the snapshots of content on certain cool pages I find.

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Shey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:10:34 -0000

Nice post Phil,

Didn't know Magnolia saved the pages too, that's pretty sweet!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Glockner — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:50:56 -0000

I’m not advocating putting all of your trust in a bookmarking web site. I definitely think considering what options the site has for regular export is very important. I know, for example, that del.icio.us has a full export to HTML with comments and tags.

No, my goal in this article was more to explain the social bookmarking phenomenon by showing that people are starting to see bookmarking more as a way of finding new and interesting content, and not so much for archival purposes.

Sure, being able to go back and find something you bookmarked a few months/years ago is useful, but what if you found a page that had content that really excited you, and you wanted to find more on that topic? You could go to google and search.. or, perhaps, if you bookmark the page with some relevant tags, Stumbleupon will find them for you.

By the way — how do you deal with link rot?

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

erlkonig — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:22:20 -0000

On the social bookmarking side, I'm not really excited about putting my bookmarks under control of a third party. Disasters happen. Companies fail.

And I have 1330-odd bookmarks.