Posts Tagged ‘Social bookmarking’

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 »

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 »