Social+Bookmarking+&+Tagging

//Post information, resources, and tips for social bookmarking and tagging here.//

=Definitions=

Social Bookmarking
[|Social Bookmarking in Plain English] - A Lee Lefever video re: social bookmarking. Clever use of colored visuals and string to make movement in the video. Consider the importance of visibility to social processes when watching user:chericem1

Tagging
[|Beth's Blog: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!] - Screencast that explains tagging, plus links to resources on tagging, etc. user:chericem1

=Considerations=

[|The Del.icio.us Lesson - Bokardo] - Nice post on web design lessons you can learn from del.icio.us user:chericem1

[|How to Use Del.icio.us to Manage Your Academic References] - Brief blog posting with 10 tips for using del.icio.us for scholarly purposes user:chericem1

[|deli.ckoma] - Statistics re: the number of tags individual users employ when posting to del.icio.us. Interesting implications for how users think about data storage and retrieval user:chericem1

[|7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking] - Brief from Educause re: the whats, whys, and hows of social bookmarking, including downsides and implications for education user:chericem1

[|You’re It!] - Thoughtful blog post that outlines criteria for "disruptive" innovations (affects ecosystem; visible in hindsight; transposed, reframed, or recontextualized from another field) and explains how social tagging meets the criteria user:chericem1

[|Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview] - Outlines new changes to be launched in Delicious soon (including removal of the dots from the name). New features include batch editing, color-coding, contextual search, search w/in specific categories, tabs--attn. to visual. Hope it's faster! user:chericem1

=Related Innovations=

[|Automate Excel] - Lets you dump your del.icio.us bookmarks into an Excel spreadsheet for backup user:chericem1

[|Cloudalicious - Watching Tag Clouds Over Time] - Enter a URL (for best results, insert a / at the end) and it will generate a graph that represents the primary topics of tags that various del.icio.us users have used over time to "describe" the site user:chericem1

[|Del.icio.us BlackBox] - Compilation of the last year's worth of popular links on del.icio.us user:chericem1

[|Del.icio.us Most Popular Treemap] - Interesting way to get a quick look at general trends in social bookmarking (in terms of topics) and their relative relationships to one another user:chericem1

[|Extisp.icio.us - scattering del.icio.us tags - now with images] - Enter anyone's del.icio.us username and this will generate a random textual or image-based scattering based on their tags. It is particularly intriguing to watch the text version build itself. . . great illustration of the layered nature of epistemologies user:chericem1

[|HubLog] - Type in the tag, it will produce a concept map of related del.icio.us tags for you user:chericem1

[|Cloudalicious] - Enter a URL, this will generate a graph representing del.icio.us tags over time w/ summary stats re: # of tags, # of "authors," and common key words. Blog is interesting reading - strong concepts. Primitive appearance, but functional user:chericem1

[|50 Matches] - Only searches websites that someone has "voted" for via del.icio.us, Digg, etc. Doesn't seem to recognize terms set off by quotation marks, etc. user:chericem1

[|http://populicio.us/newlinks.html#|Populicio.us] - Most popular sites in last 24 hours, 48 hours, 1 week, all time - only gives you the lists, but you can't activate the pages from the list user:chericem1

[| Revealicious] - Amazing app that highlights relationships btwn your del.icio.us tags graphically in 3 ways. Just log in as though you were logging into del.icio.us then click on white links @ bottom. Demo is a bit more robust than actual interface, but still super user:chericem1

[|Similicio.us] - Beautiful, simple site. Type in a URL and this little application returns similar sites culled from people's del.icio.us tags user:chericem1

[|Socializer 2.0] - Allows you to bookmark once, but have those bookmarks aggregated in all your favorite social bookmarking services (i.e. del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, etc.) user:chericem1

[|Thumblicio.us] - Type in a tag (or a del.icio.us username in the upper right hand corner) to see screenshots of the sites people are saving to del.icio.us user:chericem1

[|Trendalicious v2.0] - 100 most popular webpages (based on popularity rankings from a variety of social bookmarking sites) user:chericem1

=Reviews=

[|8 Simple Tools for Better Bookmarking] - Reviews 8 popular social bookmarking tools user:chericem1

=Tools=

[|CiteULike] - This free, online service allows you to create a personal library of articles, rate them, tag them, export bibliographic information to Endnote, and subscribe to RSS feeds for particular pages or topics. An excellent tool for researchers! user:chericem1

[|DeliGoo] - Downloadable Firefox extension that lets you create customized searches of your del.icio.us items (and it searches the text of those webpages, not just your del.icio.us account) user:chericem1

[|De.licio.us] - After you register to use this site, this free social bookmarking site allows you to create an annotated list of online bookmarks to your favorite websites, tagging your bookmarks with keywords that allows others with similar interests to access and explore them. This is particularly useful for people who use multiple browsers, access the internet regularly from multiple computers, or who wish to share their bookmark collections with others (you can make your collection public) user:chericem1

[|DEL.ICIO.US TOOLBOX: 180+ Del.icio.us Tools and Resources] - Links to some interesting and useful apps user:chericem1

Note: You can import your "Favorites" into del.icio.us

[|Diigo] - Similar to Delicious, but with the added features of a social networking platform (such as lists, messaging, etc.)

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