Exploiting New Research Tools
Knowing where it’s at: find it? flag it?
share it? (or how del.icio.us saved my life)
Chris Willmott
Dept of Biochemistry
cjrw2@le.ac.uk
University of
Leicester

The rise of social bookmarking

Social bookmarking services
del.icio.us www.stumbleupon.com ma.gnolia.com
digg.com 2collab.com
reddit.com
connotea.org citeulike.org

Bookmarks ≠ Favourites
• Bookmarks accessible on multiple computers
• Attach notes
• Tagging for future reference
• Multiple tags
• User-generated tags = “folksonomies”