Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review

13 Dec 12

Laurie Niestrath

SocialBookmarking

02 Oct 12

Susan Haynes

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26 Sep 12

Jess Hill

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ocial bookmarking tools also share this characteristic: the more they are used, the more value accrues to the system itself and thereby
'bottom-up' (or personal) approach
unstructured (or better, free structured) approach to classification with users assigning their own labels is variously referred to as a 'folksonomy
Ontology is a good way to organize objects, [...], but it is a terrible way to organize ideas, and in the period between the invention of the printing press and the invention of the symlink, we were forced to optimize for the storage and retrieval of objects, not ideas."
tagging of tags
folksonomy data is much noisier but also more flexible, more abundant and far cheaper. Bear in mind also that the terms used are, by definition, the very terms that real users might be expected to use in future when searching for this information.
Indeed, the whole social tagging approach bears more than a passing resemblance to Google's PageRank algorithm [27].
"Flickr and del.icio.us work so well for me not because they aggregate the world's tags, but because they allow me to aggregate my social network's tags, links, and photos. [...] I don't want to see "research" resources from a molecular biologist, but I do want to see them from a sociologist studying online social networks."
The short answer to this is that social bookmarking tools, as with the Web at large, usually pay users back many times over in utility for whatever privacy they may have surrendered. But if absolute privacy is important, then it's certainly best to stay away from these tools (and, indeed, possibly the Web as a whole).

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18 Sep 12

Jamie S

SocialBookmarking

old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you", it seems like we might have to face up to some of these stark realities [n1]. With the

10 May 12

Andy Beyer

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21 Apr 12

sandra lopez

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thelma aguiñaga

bookmarking

26 Jan 12

Sara Richardson

SocialBookmarking bookmarking

28 Sep 11

Isidro Vila Verde

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22 Aug 11

deirdre robson

Detailed history of devpt tagging and review of various social bookmarking sites. NVU theoretically.

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To anyone familiar with top-down classification schemes, this approach could look like a fearful muddle. But this doesn't mean that it is without value – after all, the Web itself appears from the outside as a somewhat messy affair (almost its defining characteristic). Rather, this is an altogether different – and, we would argue, complementary – form of classification. Compared to the traditional top-down approach, folksonomy data is much noisier but also more flexible, more abundant and far cheaper. Bear in mind also that the terms used are, by definition, the very terms that real users might be expected to use in future when searching for this information. As Clay Shirky has pointed out [26], folksonomies move us from a 'binary' in-or-out classification system to an 'analogue' one in which items can exist in multiple categories, each weighted by relative popularity. When it comes to ranking by relevance (as opposed to merely identifying potentially relevant resources), this kind of data might actually be more useful than a much smaller number of tightly controlled keywords. Indeed, the whole social tagging approach bears more than a passing resemblance to Google's PageRank algorithm [27].
The short answer to this is that social bookmarking tools, as with the Web at large, usually pay users back many times over in utility for whatever privacy they may have surrendered. But if absolute privacy is important, then it's certainly best to stay away from these tools (and, indeed, possibly the Web as a whole).

04 Aug 11

Yu Kai Lim

20 Jul 11

Sample Student

A slightly dated (2005) article, but still valuable, good overview of social bookmarking.

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10 Jun 11

shane dillon

Bookmarks bookmarking

06 May 11

telem 10

28 Mar 11

CSM 547

learning a new tool (Andrea Andrzejewski)

02 Oct 10

Eunjin Yoo

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hyperlinks in all their glory, sell you on the idea of bookmarking hyperlinks, point you at other folks who are doing the same, and tell you why this is a good thing.
Mosaic [n4], the granddaddy of all modern browsers
Wikipedia [14], the free encyclopedia, with user-generated content produced at a fraction of the cost of more established publishers and at an unparalleled speed of delivery (sometimes extending to almost real-time updates), is just such another successful, self-regulating system
some systems (Flickr [25], especially) show a strong bias towards English language tags
folksonomies move us from a 'binary' in-or-out classification system to an 'analogue' one in which items can exist in multiple categories, each weighted by relative popularity
Another important aspect on the social axis is user privacy
if absolute privacy is important, then it's certainly best to stay away from these tools
RSS allows these tools to be hooked up easily

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25 Sep 10

Jonathan West

We are here going to remind you of hyperlinks in all their glory, sell you on the idea of bookmarking hyperlinks, point you at other folks who are doing the same, and tell you why this is a good thing. Just as long as those hyperlinks (or let's call them

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Robot wisdom was increasingly being challenged by the 'buzz latency' [11] that such a shared personal recommendation system creates.

18 Jul 10

Bernd Zumdick

In: D-Lib Magazine, April 2005, Volume 11 Number 4

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30 Apr 10

kavango

Because, to paraphrase a pop music lyric from a certain rock and roll band of yesterday, "the Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you", it seems like we might have to face up to some of these stark realities [n1]. With the introduction

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16 Apr 10