Social Bookmarking By Snezana Aleksic

By Snezana Aleksic

Introduction Method for internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet Users can save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share Bookmarks are usually public, also can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, or shared only inside certain networks

Method for internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet

Users can save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share

Bookmarks are usually public, also can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, or shared only inside certain networks

StumbleUpon Web browser plugin that allows users to discover and share webpages, to rate webpages, photos, and videos StumbleUpon Toolbar integrated with the user's browser to allow for one-click access to quality web sites Uses rating to form collaborative opinions on website quality

Web browser plugin that allows users to discover and share webpages, to rate webpages, photos, and videos

StumbleUpon Toolbar integrated with the user's browser to allow for one-click access to quality web sites

Uses rating to form collaborative opinions on website quality

StumbleUpon cont. Using search engines to locate relevant content – hunting through pages of results Members are taken directly to web sites matching their personal interests and preferences Stumblers share their favorite web sites and interact with other users

Using search engines to locate relevant content – hunting through pages of results

Members are taken directly to web sites matching their personal interests and preferences

Stumblers share their favorite web sites and interact with other users

Delicious Social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks Has one of the more popular Firefox Add-ons Users can tag each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keyword

Social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks

Has one of the more popular Firefox Add-ons

Users can tag each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keyword

Delicious cont. All bookmarks posted are publicly viewable by default Users can mark specific bookmarks as private, and imported bookmarks are private by default Has a "hotlist" on its home page and "popular" and "recent" pages

All bookmarks posted are publicly viewable by default

Users can mark specific bookmarks as private, and imported bookmarks are private by default

Has a "hotlist" on its home page and "popular" and "recent" pages

Digg Place for people to discover and share content Providing place where people can collectively determine the value of content Everything is submitted by community members Other people see it and Digg what they like best

Place for people to discover and share content

Providing place where people can collectively determine the value of content

Everything is submitted by community members

Other people see it and Digg what they like best

Digg cont. Short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories Readers allowed to comment on the story Digg promote conversation and provide tools for its community to discuss the topics that they’re passionate about

Short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories

Readers allowed to comment on the story

Digg promote conversation and provide tools for its community to discuss the topics that they’re passionate about

Advantages of Social Bookmarking Useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers Organizing large numbers of bookmarks Sharing bookmarks with contacts Social bookmarking system can rank a resource based on how many times it has been bookmarked by users

Useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers

Organizing large numbers of bookmarks

Sharing bookmarks with contacts

Social bookmarking system can rank a resource based on how many times it has been bookmarked by users

Disadvantages of Social Bookmarking There are no standards set for the keywords, controlled terms and vocabulary used Mistagging due to spelling errors Tags that can have more than one meaning Unclear tags due to synonym/antonym confusion

There are no standards set for the keywords, controlled terms and vocabulary used

Mistagging due to spelling errors

Tags that can have more than one meaning

Unclear tags due to synonym/antonym confusion

References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com/about.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/05/if-you-dont-use-delicious-you-will-now/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon

http://www.stumbleupon.com/about.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/05/if-you-dont-use-delicious-you-will-now/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg