Social Bookmarking

Or,

How del.icio.us can be the third lobe of your brain

Social Bookmarks

Oops.

Wrong movie.

via: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

Lots of options

• Blinklist

• StumbleUpon

•Ma.gnolia

• Reddit

• Furl

•Caches entire page

•Del.icio.us

• Since 2003

•Now owned by Yahoo

Why del.icio.us?

•Easy and fast

•Human readable URLs

•Richness of folksonomy

•Ubiquity of RSS

Adding Bookmarks

Firefox Extension

Internet Explorer

Find

Reuse&Organize

Find

Org

anize

Tags

✦Uncontrolled vocabulary

✦Wisdom of crowds

✦“Folksonomy”

Folksonomy

✦ Positives✦ Non-hierarchical descriptors✦ Inclusive, not exclusive

✦ Open ended

✦ Long Tail

Folksonomy

✦ Negatives✦ Non-hierarchical descriptors✦ Inclusive, not exclusive (polysemy)

✦ Numbers make it work

✦ Personal

Folksonomy

Tag Cloud

Meta Tags

for:griffey

system:filetype:mp3Jpg, mpg, avi, mp3, pdf, doc

system:media:audioVideo, image, document

Reuse

Tags meet RSS

User levelhttp://del.icio.us/rss/griffey

Tag Levelhttp://del.icio.us/rss/tag/5weeks

User + Taghttp://del.icio.us/rss/griffey/5weeks

Multiple tagshttp://del.icio.us/rss/copyright+library

RSS + Media = PodcastMedia meta tags come with enclosures

Just my MP3shttp://del.icio.us/rss/griffey/system:filetype:mp3

Everyone’s MP3shttp://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3

Everyone’s Videoshttp://del.icio.us/rss/tag system:media:video

Get specifichttp://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3+library

One Input, Many Outputs

Embedding your Bookmarks

Linkrolls http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls

Daily Blog Posthttp://del.icio.us/help/sharing

RSSPractically anything these days

What do I do with all this?

✦ Pathfinders

✦ Internal communication of resources

✦ Feeds for subject specialists

✦ RSS into Blackboard/WebCT for individual classes

✦ Personal research tool

More advanced use✦ API✦ Your Network✦ Subscriptions/Inbox✦ Private bookmarks✦ JSON: JavaScript Object Notation ✦ History of a URL✦ http://del.icio.us/url?url=http://wikipedia.org

✦ Meta pages✦ http://del.icio.us/popular/✦ http://del.icio.us/recent

Even more...

License your feed: Creative Commons

Import/Export

Summary

Find, Organize, Reuse

If it has a URL, del.icio.us it

Infinitely reusable information pieces

Jason Griffey

✦ Pattern Recognition✦ http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp

✦ Jason-griffey@utc.edu✦ AIM: utcrefJason✦ http://www.twitter.com/griffey✦ http://del.icio.us/griffey/CiL2008/

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