Social Bookmarking

Whatsapp: how to download and install

Do you know how to download and install WhatsApp on your smart phone?, Want to learn what it is for this application?, do you want to save money by avoiding the sending of messages SMS to other devices? Now it is entirely possible. Discover all about WhatsApp, an application for smartphones that will allow you to send SMS messages and chat with your contacts in a totally free and instant Push notifications via SMS saving money. As simple as downloading and installing the application on your device.

The application WhatsApp allows you to send Push notifications that can replace conventional SMS messages between two mobile devices of the type iPhone or Blackberry. It also offers the possibility to chat, send emails or call other contacts depending on the type of information you have on them and the type of device you will use. Read the rest of this entry »

The web of social networks

This week, a site owned by Microsoft showed the slogan of a service called Tulalip, promising to ” find what you need and share what you know more easily than ever . ” Microsoft, owner of the domain socl.com, immediately remove the message and explained that it was ” an interior design project “that was” mistakenly published”, but the rumors that the company plans to launch its own social service soared in the network.

Last month, seven years after Google launched its social networking site Orkut (which today only remains the most widely used in Brazil), the search engine company launched Google + , a community that aspires to conquer social leadership now in the hands of Facebook. A lack of official data that Google updated and complete opening + (currently only available by invitation), several consultants estimate that already has 18 million users .

If the numbers of users of networks like Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are not descended yet: Google grows, how many social networks is able to manage a person? According to II study on social networking sites, published by IAB Spain Research, in the case of Facebook and Myspace by almost 40% of users of these networks say their social network visit several times a day. In addition, the study habits of internet 2010 Leisure Networks, 83% of Spanish Internet uses some sort of social network and 20% of Internet uses three or more of them. Read the rest of this entry »

Social bookmarking and tags

When I discovered the social bookmarking immediately interested me the procedures for choosing labels. In those days (circa 2008) I discovered blogs as Deakialli Documentary of Catuxa Seoane, which led me to other blogs of librarians and archivists, opened my way of thinking and helped me to place myself.

The result of those readings was realizing that, unlike how they work the filmmakers, who follow very precise technical guidelines and a controlled vocabulary to describe and catalog documents, internet users label in a free, spontaneous and intuitive, without sticking to a closed list of categories or descriptors provided with a precise and unchanging linguistic form. It has been argued that the spontaneous and free use of tags is a defining characteristic markers and is a value not to be missed. But this practice professional description of documents can cause problems when retrieving information.

Some of the labeling problems stem from the fact that some social bookmarking services like Delicious, do not allow more than one word for each tag. And yet many users are using groups of words, such as physical geography. Given examples like this has been debated whether to unify the procedures for marking, the use of underscore, and widespread among users. Read the rest of this entry »

Collective Intelligence and Social Bookmarks

This intelligence is created in real time by thousands of people during their daily activities, and can be of two types: explicit and implicit. The first, explicit collective intelligence, knowledge takes the form of collected and annotated by many people (for example, Wikipedia-www.wikipedia.org, is clearly the result of collective intelligence). This type of information repository of “collective intelligence”, perfect knowledge of the contributions of thousands of authors, and we all know its power.

Implicit collective intelligence, which we refer throughout this section, results from data generated by the activities of many people over time. Often implicitly contributes to the development of knowledge through our habits of choice and action. When clikas a webpage, vote for a video, we added some favorites to our list of bookmarks. This report notes that the discovery and exploitation of intelligence data, revealed by analysis of patterns, correlations and flow-enable increasingly accurate predictions regarding the preferences and behaviors of people, and this helps researchers and regular users to understand and find relationships and to evaluate the relative importance of ideas and events. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Bookmarks

1. What is Social Bookmarking?
Bookmarks are links to sites and web pages to facilitate further store location and access. Any Web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc) has a system for creating bookmarks to save and use our expanding team. In Internet Explorer are called “favorites.”
However, these markers can also be saved online. This way you can access them from any computer and share them with others. The adjective “social” is that you can share with other people being able to create social networks or groups. When a user creates a bookmark given freely about tags.

2. What is Delicious?
Delicious ( http://delicious.com/ ) is the most popular Web 2.0 service where you can save your bookmarks or favorites. You must register as a user and offers the possibility of installing a browser extension (Firefox or Internet Explorer) to have a console of buttons on the toolbar that facilitates the creation and editing of these markers. While browsing if you find a page that interests you, do not keep it in the browser favorites, but send it to Delicious and stored there. This allows the use of these bookmarks from any computer and share them with others. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Bookmarks: store and share information

Managing bookmarks or ‘bookmarks’ is one of the most widely used Internet browsers. They allow users to store links to pages that interest them as they surf the Internet. This way they can directly access them at any time without the need to navigate the browsing history. However, as the user is accumulating links, managing them using these applications becomes more difficult, so that accurate classification methods.

One of the services of so-called Web 2.0 that is running better among users are social bookmarks, because you can save and share Web links with other users.

Thus, each user can make their own lists of private or public, see other users or subscribe to the selections made by users interested in related topics.

Each user can make their own lists of private or public, refer to other users or subscribe to the selections made
The advantages of using such services to residents quick access from any computer anywhere in the stores where they keep the selected sites, saving you from having to be carrying a list of bookmarks from one computer to another. At the same time, the classification by ‘tags’ (tags) can keep track of the links more easily compared to other traditional methods such as creating a topic tree using folders and subfolders. Read the rest of this entry »

Best Social Bookmarks

Social bookmarking or so-called “Bookmarking “is today one of the best options to have all your favorite sites and tools online, wherever you are, without connecting to the computer where you saved your” Favorites. “But not only do we provide this comfortable lead but they are a democratic way of finding good and interesting news and resources on the network.

We can find real-time news , we can share and recommend any article we find interesting, vote and give our opinion, and also thanks to its fast indexing, we also can benefit from the strategies of SEO or SEO. That is why in this article we present a selection of the best we can currently use Bookmarking:

• Del.icio: One of the most popular social bookmarking and used. Allows you to share news, sort them by tags, to see people who share the same story or link and view the “tweets” that mention this link. Page Rank 8. http://delicious.com/

• Digg.com: social marker similar to Delicious, where you can sort the results by subject: science, technology, business, sports, etc.. You can search for results in both hard news, image or video, and can vote all results. Read the rest of this entry »