This link has been bookmarked by 21 people . It was first bookmarked on 03 Aug 2008, by Jeff Walzer.
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01 Apr 09
Michelle HudiburgAn introspective blog entry on the practice of social bookmarking.
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26 Mar 09
Arne van ElkKritisch artikel over het fenomeen social bookmarking: wat heb je er aan? En passant wordt 'tagging' ook flink bekritiseerd.
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19 Dec 08
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Today there are literally hundreds of personal social bookmarking sites in use.
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Thomas HoAnnotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2008%2F08%2F03%2Fsocial-bookmarking-3
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Uploading every bookmark I have ever made since I was 12. This is called
oversharing, learn that word.
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14 Oct 08
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23 Aug 08
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07 Aug 08
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05 Aug 08
Roger GardnerThis article raises some of the emerging issues with social bookmarking, for example some social bookmarkers competing to be seen to first save the most popular bookmark or the danger that bookmarking a site may appear to make someone an expert in that topic.
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Does the fact that someone bookmarks a site begin to make them an expert in that topic?
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04 Aug 08
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Kate OlsonThis post gives a good description of how social bookmarking can be overused as a way to gain online popularity. It brings up the terms oversharing and also shows how social bookmarking can be a waste of time if not used properly. I've seen this as well, and sometimes need to make sure to watch how I tag and share sites.
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03 Aug 08
Kate TrgovacThis article makes me a little sad - really, people are spamming bookmark tags to be famous or game the system? OMG - get over yourself. Social bookmarking is one of the most useful things about the internet! Stop messing with it.
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Let me be blunt. Social bookmarking does have a few values in my eyes. Past that, it moves quickly into wasted time.
Value:
-Compiling sets of links for a project.
-Storing, sorting and organizing my own personal bookmarks.
-Outputting a stream of links used to build a paper, presentation, podcast or blog posting.
-Utilizing tags to quickly look at filtered information.
Waste:-The need to bookmark everything I visit. I could have just as easily sat there and watched you browse the Web all day.
-Visiting the most popular page on social bookmarking sites. This becomes the game where if they save it, I should too.
-Uploading every bookmark I have ever made since I was 12. This is called
oversharing, learn that word.-Finding out that people do not understand tagging.
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However, here is where the dynamic changes. The new shift in social software brings enterprises in the fold by offering the same social bookmarking abilities to companies. Software provided by IBM/Lotus
, Microsoft and a growing list of others are fighting to bring taxonomy order to how users spend their time on the Internet while at work. -
But if I start tagging and bookmarking sites that pertain to the topic, I suddenly have followers and become a leader of knowledge in that taxonomy area.
The real question begs: Are all these shared and tagged bookmarks becoming a useful tool to anyone?
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The race on every type of social network, bookmarking or not, to be one of the most popular has become time consuming not only for the person involved. Bring this feature into a corporation and you begin to see a loss of productivity. Being known as a top linker, Twitterer, community member or news article junkie is too much to pass up.
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If the users are not taught the value in providing and finding links, it becomes a social station wagon crammed with stuff that you will never need or find again until you sell off the car.
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So what data actually sits out in the social bookmarking sites? Some of it is quite useful if you are working on a specific topic and it is tagged properly.
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How does the social bookmarking site differ? I can drill into a tag, presuming it is done properly and find information quickly that has been filtered. Tagging is an art; a skill; and a dream. No one really gets trained in tagging and most companies never build a starter taxonomy kit properly. You end up with random misspellings, abbreviations and merged or underscored word sets everywhere.
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