Social Bookmarking - September 12, 2006
I'm taking a break from Webquest reviews today, and I'd like to talk about Social Bookmarking instead. See the neat little icons at the bottom of this post (and every other post)? You may have seen these and others like them before - they enable you to create a Social Bookmark to the post you're reading. And what is that? Well, let's hear it from Wikipedia, rather than me... Social bookmarking is a web based service, where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed. So rather than being limited to the "Bookmarks" or "Favorites" menu on your personal computer, you can now bookmark all of your favorite sites online. This is a HUGE help to avid webquesters, who can now easily access all of their hotlists from any internet-connected computer. How many of us have found great websites at home, and then forgotten how to get to them once you get to school? Now all you have to do is remember how to get to your social bookmarking site. And there are lots of other features to these sites ... for instance, you can share your links with other social bookmarkers who have similar interests. My favorite site is del.icio.us - I highly recommend checking them out. Oh, and if you have an account at one of the sites whose icons appear below (delicious, magnolia, furl, simpy, spurl, or Yahoo! myweb), and you want to "tag" one of my posts ... well just click on the appropriate icon and you're off to the races. |
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