Comments on: Is social bookmarking worth the trouble?

By: notes, thoughts, ideas and responses » del.icio.us Hits Concept But Misses Innovation

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:29:48 +0000

[...] does such a flexible service like del.icio.us go wrong? For starters, there are skeptics who question if tagging and social bookmarking is really worth the trouble for tracking your own [...]

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:57:48 +0000

@Kim – thanks for the additional info!

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:33:46 +0000

@brainadmin – I rarely use the annotation feature of diigo although it is very useful. What I like about diigo are the social aspects. There are groups that you can join like Wordpress and Twitter and when you bookmark a site you can also send the link to that group. And anyone can create a group. There are many other features but this is the one that I use the most.

I crosspost to magolia, delicious and diigo as form of backup – sometimes I worry about all of my research being gone if a site were to disapear. I really wanted to like magnolia but it just doesn’t work for me.

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:28:28 +0000

@Heidi – must check out what you’ve said about Magnolia

By: Heidi @ Carolina Dreamz

Heidi @ Carolina Dreamz — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:29:13 +0000

I’m slowly becoming a delicious junkie.

I know its because of my specialized Delicious Flock button, though. Its made life so much easier. I despise toolbars and yet still use them in a Karate Kid, on/off/ manner for SU.

Magnolia has/had issues with the Flock browser and I had to “forget” it to relieve myself of the constant errors. I don’t find it as convenient as Delicious, so I haven’t bothered to do much with it.

Magnolia has done some great CS on twitter, though. That was impressive.

By: notes, thoughts, ideas and responses » Are You Getting The Most Out Of Social Bookmarking?

Tue, 27 May 2008 03:17:49 +0000

[...] and not everyone uses these services to their fullest potential. Mark Dykeman of Broadcasting Brain proposes that social bookmarking is mainly used to direct other people to specific websites and not for [...]

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:28:43 +0000

@Kim – you’re the second commenter to mention Diigo. I’ve tried it once in order to annotate an online document but I didn’t really play with the bookmarking piece. Interesting that you post to both delicious and magnolia.

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:07:14 +0000

I’m obsessive about bookmarking. I’ve been using delicious for a couple of years but have recently switched to diigo – and I use diigo to post to delicious and magnolia (for some reason I’ve never liked magnolia that much and it loads too slow for me) at the same time. I find, though, that except for a couple of tags I rarely go back to them and instead do a google search. I do find, however, that it is extremely useful to set up feeds for tags on topic that I am researching and feeds for users who have similar interests. So, hopefully my 3000+ bookmarks will be useful to others in the same way. It seems that my use of social bookmarking is not information retrieval but rather of information discovery.

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By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:36:19 +0000

@Alex – never heard of split tagging before. Thanks for the info.

By: Alex Wiliams

Alex Wiliams — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:05:22 +0000

A shift is occurring but social bookmarking is also evolving. Structured tagging is helping social sites provide better organization for their users. For instance, Wesabe, a personal finance site, offers a form of structured tagging. They call it split tagging. A category always has a tag. A tag to mark an event has a one-time tag. Gene Smith highlighted this example in his excellent presentation on trends in tagging last week at WebVisions. He posted his slides on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/gsmith/tagging-emerging-trends

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