Social Bookmarking

Using Delicious

Bookmarks

Local

Private

Messy

Alternatives

Social Bookmarking

Advantages• Human cognition• Complex systems dynamics and emergent vocabularies

Disadvantages• Informal vocabularies• Spam and corruption

The first social bookmarking site was itList, launched in April of 1996.

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

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is a social bookmarking web service

for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.

Delicious was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003.

It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)

Delicious was acquired by Yahoo! in late 2005 for between $15-30 million.

AccountCreation

Installation

Installation

Installation

Buttons

Saving a Bookmark

Retrieving Bookmarks: Delicious Toolbar

Retrieving Bookmarks: Delicious Sidebar

Retrieving Bookmarks: Delicious Menu

Retrieving Bookmarks: Delicious Website

Looking for Other People's Bookmarks?

Editing/Tagging

Popular Tag Cloud

My Tag Cloud

Sharing

Network

Subscriptions

Search

Katrina

Caveats

Everyone sees your bookmarks by default...

However, you can save privately.

Overexposure

No internet, no bookmarks.

Disconnected?

Spam?

Always a possibility.

Tags

There is no controlled vocabulary for tags.

Other FishOverexposure

SimpyCiteulikeConnotea

StumbleUponMa.gnolia

FavesDiigo

Connectbeam

Diggreddit

Newsvine

Xmarks

Q&A

Credits

• Jonas Brothers Bookmarks by Janet• Small House on Dyke II by Berend Broerse• (my own private) road to nowhere by Benoît• Bookmark 2.0 by Dav Yaginuma• It Was Delicious by Tyler• Logo of Delicious by Bernard Goldbach• The Yahoo! Cow by Franco Folini• Fun with Firefox by Sparrow*• Save by Thomas Hawk• Retrieving by Bo Brunner• Autumn Dawn by James Jordan• Lost in Tagging by Alexandre Dulaunoy• spam by Thomas Wollbeck

• In Search Of by Karthick Makka• the caveat emporium by Elephi Pelephi• overexposure by Fellipe Cicconi• Disconnected by Alireza Teimoury• Spam! by Gonçalo Valverde• World's Messiest Office Cubicle Discovere

d in Colorado and This is what information without rich, standard metadata is like. by Jeffrey Beall

• schooling bannerfish by Jon Hanson• Interesting Qs and As by Q. Thomas

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Network map generated by Delicious Network Explorer.

Assembled by Bart Everson for the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Presented February 4, 2010.

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