Hi everybody!
During our last lesson we spoke about "Social Bookmarking" and tried to understand what this new system is by using "del.icio.us" as model.
If you're an expert on the subject, all the better; if instead, like me you're not really familiar with that concept, I'm glad to "share" with you a brief elucidation. First of all, SHARE is a keyword in social bookmarking: it is through sharing that this system becomes "social". Basically, it is a method for Internet users to save, store, organize, search and manage bookmarks of web pages with the help of informal TAGS. And what's new in comparison with the old system? Well, these bookmarks are public and that allows you to share your favourite bookmarks with other people and they can share theirs with you. In the old way you could bookmark a web page you find interesting in a web browser in one computer. The problem is when you have to use different computers. Here comes the new way into action: it doesn't use a browser, but a website called "social bookmarking site", an example is Del.icio.us. I find it very useful in that it is a way to narrow the field of your research; everyone knows how vast is the Web and this is a method to filter information. Furthermore, using this system you realize that you don't start from scratch, but from a point that others have already reached: when you search on del.icio.us you find the URLs which have been saved by someone as bookmarks in that they have been considered interesting or rich of precious information about a particolar topic. Actually, you take advantage of the work or research other people have already done. You can also see who saved it in order to have an idea of what this person is interested in. It is useful to start saving bookmarks on del.icio.us because it makes it easier to remember sites thanks to tags. You can add keywords (tags) to describe the site and to find your bookmarks later. That's why tags are so important. Since it is a public system everyone can benefit from your bookmarks and they can use your tags like you. So, sharing knowledge into networks allows everyone to discover new and relevant information.
During our last lesson we spoke about "Social Bookmarking" and tried to understand what this new system is by using "del.icio.us" as model.
If you're an expert on the subject, all the better; if instead, like me you're not really familiar with that concept, I'm glad to "share" with you a brief elucidation. First of all, SHARE is a keyword in social bookmarking: it is through sharing that this system becomes "social". Basically, it is a method for Internet users to save, store, organize, search and manage bookmarks of web pages with the help of informal TAGS. And what's new in comparison with the old system? Well, these bookmarks are public and that allows you to share your favourite bookmarks with other people and they can share theirs with you. In the old way you could bookmark a web page you find interesting in a web browser in one computer. The problem is when you have to use different computers. Here comes the new way into action: it doesn't use a browser, but a website called "social bookmarking site", an example is Del.icio.us. I find it very useful in that it is a way to narrow the field of your research; everyone knows how vast is the Web and this is a method to filter information. Furthermore, using this system you realize that you don't start from scratch, but from a point that others have already reached: when you search on del.icio.us you find the URLs which have been saved by someone as bookmarks in that they have been considered interesting or rich of precious information about a particolar topic. Actually, you take advantage of the work or research other people have already done. You can also see who saved it in order to have an idea of what this person is interested in. It is useful to start saving bookmarks on del.icio.us because it makes it easier to remember sites thanks to tags. You can add keywords (tags) to describe the site and to find your bookmarks later. That's why tags are so important. Since it is a public system everyone can benefit from your bookmarks and they can use your tags like you. So, sharing knowledge into networks allows everyone to discover new and relevant information.
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