Module 7 - Social Bookmarking Using Delicious and Sharing Blogs
According to wikipedia, delicious is:
"is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs."
It is a great organising tool that allows you to:
It is a great organising tool that allows you to:
- KEEP your internet links/favourites in an online format...
- SHARE these links with friends...
- ORGANISE your links/favourites according to specific tags...
I can understand the idea of keeping things organised in an online format - this makes sense to me - but I am a creature of habit - find interesting sites I like, add them to favourites or place them on my bookmarks toolbar. I find this a much easier way to make instantaneous connections to these sites than placing them into delicious. This works for me - I am not a huge browser of sites - if I was social bookmarking may be of more relevance to me.
However, I feel the greatest attraction, is adding friends, using social bookmarking. Using their collective knowledge to surf worthwhile sites - they have done the scavenging of sites for us. Sharing, not recreating things or searching for things that have already been found is most handy!
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