Social Bookmarking Tool Comparison

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- Why is social bookmarking significant
  Enables like-minded people to find each other and create new communities of users around a topic
  allows a specific group of people (staff members in an organization for example) to share resources efficiently
  Can help you find new insights about a topic by seeing how others think and connect to it
  Creates contextual taxonomies that have meaning for a particular community/group of people (good for different cultural contexts)
  Most tools incorporate various mechanisms for sharing information outside of the tools (via RSS, integration with other tools such as blogging software)
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- Why is social bookmarking significant
  Enables like-minded people to find each other and create new communities of users around a topic
  allows a specific group of people (staff members in an organization for example) to share resources efficiently
  Can help you find new insights about a topic by seeing how others think and connect to it
  Creates contextual taxonomies that have meaning for a particular community/group of people (good for different cultural contexts)
  Most tools incorporate various mechanisms for sharing information outside of the tools (via RSS, integration with other tools such as blogging software)
- What are the drawbacks
  Tools are still evolving and not all have polished,user-friendly interfaces
  No consistent oversight to how a resource is tagged - e.g. tag London could stand for Julie London, City of London, or Jack London
  The stream of specific resources on a topic is as good as the community who has joined the service. Many services are populated with early adoptor types so the technical information can fantastic, but more general topics may not yet have lots of users. This is changing though.
  More overwhelming
  Possibility of tagging spam
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- Submitted by coolvid on Mon, 2005/06/06 - 10:20am.
  Blogs | RSS | Web
  Introduction Purpose
  This article looks at the evolving
  crop of social bookmarking tools, their functionality and examples of use. The
  goal is to help nonprofits understand the value of using social bookmarking
  tools and to determine which social bookmarking tool would best serve their
  needs. This is directed at nonprofit uses of these tools.
  Version
  The
  current version of this document is available at:
  http://www.consultantcommons.org/node/239Updating
  The
  landscape of social bookmarking tools is like the wild west. New tools are
  appearing (and disappearing) rapidly and the features of specific tools is also
  changing. Thanks to the open nature (in terms of syndication and APIs if not
  source) of many of these tools, third party add-ons can provide significant
  additional functionality. All of this means that the material in the article can
  become quickly out-of-date. For that reason, this has been set up, in CivicSpace parlance, as a book. This
  means that is editable by anyone who has a ConsultantCommons.org user account
  As new information becomes available, functionality changes, or new tools
  emerge, please feel free to make updates to this page.
  
  In addition, as this page is being developed, please feel free to add
  information either by editing the book itself or by leaving a comment.
  
  If you participate in the editing of this document, please include your name
  and any desired contact information in the "Contributors" section below.
  
  This being developed in response to a suggestion from Beth Kanter
  Contributors
  Marnie Webb, user: webb, ,ext337, marniewebb@gmail.com
  Beth Kanter beth@bethkanter.org
  Nancy White, nancyw@fullcirc.com
  SimonP
  Adam Loving
  Definitions
  Social Bookmarking
  
  Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks to an online service and
  "tagging" them with keywords you create instead of saving the bookmarks in your
  browser's favorite's list. Your collection of bookmarks is viewable to others
  users who may easily copy bookmarks to their own collection. Social bookmarking
  enables a you to discover other people who are interested in a topic and know
  about an excellent web resources that you may not have found by using a search
  engine. Based on: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking] and
  [http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI7001]
  
  Social bookmarking tools often allow you to clip all or part of the page
  you are bookmarking, extensive commenting, thus offering potentially more
  annotation and content "meaning making."
- Tagging
  
  Tagging is a term used in a number of contexts for different
  purposes, mostly referring to adding a tag of some form. Tags can be thought of
  as keyword that allow ad hoc classification and sorting of a variety of types of
  information. Tagging can be applied to URLs (in the case of social bookmarking),
  photos (flickr), ideas/projects (43 things).
  
  In many computing and information
  processing contexts, tagging is the process of labelling a piece of
  data with metadata.
  Content on webpages is displayed as HTML which uses the construct of HTML
  tags
  In the practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords
  known as folksonomy, Tags are descriptors that
  individuals assign to objects.
  For instance, in linguistics, a corpus may undergo
  part-of-speech
  tagging.
  It is also often used in relation to audio data
  compression, in which case it refers to adding
  In CVS, to tag a
  project is to associate a name with the current version of every file in project
  directory. This is done so that one can easily revert to a state where all files
  are known to compile together.
  RSS, a group of XML based web-content
  distribution and republication (Web syndication) formats
  primarily used by news sites and we
  blogs
  (blogs).
  the Rich Site Summary is
  also known as RSS 0.9x (although many weblog feeds are full-text, not
  summaries)
  the RDF Site Summary is
  based on Netscape's
  short-lived RSS 0.90, which used the W3C Resource
  Description Framework Standard; this is also known as RSS 1.x
  the Really Simple
  Syndication is also known as RSS 2.x
  sometimes, by casual (though incorrect) use, alternative syndication
  protocols, such as Atom.
  Why is social bookmarking significant
  Enables like-minded people to find each other and create new communities of
  users around a topic
  allows a specific group of people (staff members in an organization for
  example) to share resources efficiently
  Can help you find new insights about a topic by seeing how others think and
  connect to it
  Creates contextual taxonomies that have meaning for a particular
  community/group of people (good for different cultural contexts)
  Most tools incorporate various mechanisms for sharing information outside of
  the tools (via RSS, integration with other tools such as blogging
  software)
  What are the drawbacks
  Tools are still evolving and not all have polished,user-friendly interfaces
  No consistent oversight to how a resource is tagged - e.g. tag London could
  stand for Julie London, City of London, or Jack London
  The stream of specific resources on a topic is as good as the community who
  has joined the service. Many services are populated with early adoptor types so
  the technical information can be fantastic, but more general topics may not yet
  have lots of users. This is changing though.
  More overwhelming
  Possibility of tagging spam
  What happens when you add
  "social" to "bookmarking" or why this is different from adding sites to your
  browser's favorite list.
  A more condensed version of the examples here:
  http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/06/social_bookmark.html
- 4 more annotations...
- - Social Bookmarking Tools List
    Backflip (claimed: webb)
    Blinklist
    blogmarks
    Connotea
    de.lirio.us
    del.icio.us (claimed: lewis)
    feedmarker
    Frassle
    
    Furl
    Jots (claimed: kanter)
    Lookmarks
    Network Menus
    
    Scuttle
    unalog
    Spurl
    Simpy
    Wists
    Yahoo! My Web 2.0
  - Categories for comparison
    Common Functionality
    
    Tagging
    
    Ability to add ad hoc metadata in the
    form of keywords to URLs
    Categories
    Ability to pre-determine a series of words or phrases under
    which URLs can be stored.
    Descriptions
    Ability to write a brief description of the content.
    Syndication (RSS, Atom)
    Various levels of output in the form of RSS or
    Atom feeds. These may include syndication of a user's bookmarks, a tag and/or
    category with a user's set of bookmarks, or a tag as used by all system users.
    Posting bookmarklets
    These are "widgets" that you can add to your browser
    that enable you to easily bookmark URLS directly to the service. Typically,
    other users create these widgets based on XYZ programming code and share them
    freely with other users. Some bookmarketlets provided additional functionality
    such as importing or exporting urls from the service to your desktop.
    Sharing
    Unless "private" functionality is offered, all bookmark
    collections in users accounts are visible to everyone who uses or visits the
    site. Some social bookmarking tools allow you to designate a particular URL as
    "private" so it is only visible to you.
    Browse by tag/category
    You can browse all bookmarks that are tagged with
    a particular tag within a service. This lets you see the entire collection of
    URLs related to topic. In some services, you can then examin specific users
    other bookmarks.
    Subscribe to tags
    This feature allows you, whether in the social
    bookmarking application itself or via RSS, to follow addition to a specific tag.
    Subscribe to users
    This feature allows you, whether in the social
    bookmarking application itself or via RSS, to follow addition to a specific
    user.
    Integration with other tools
    Related to 3rd party tools, add-ons and
    APIs, this indicates whether or not it is possibile to easily add the data or
    certain pieces of functionality of the social bookmarking tool to other
    applications. A common example of this is the ability to integrate a users
    del.icio.us account and daily links with the posts on their weblog.
    Development of add-on, 3rd party tools
    There are additional tools,
    functionality, and services built on top of the social bookmarking tool.
    Import
    The ability to easily add an existing list of bookmarks to the
    users account.
    Export
    The ability to easily export the existing list of bookmarks as
    either html or xml.
    Publishing
    The ability to make the lists available in another format on
    the web. This is commonly solved by enabling RSS feeds of user bookmarks.
    Saves cache of webpage
    The service saves the webpage so that it can be
    retrieved later, if the page no longer exists.
    User Experience
    Interface
    Entirely subjective, this discusses the ease with which the
    interface can be approached and navigated.
    Documentation
    An evaluation of the services help documents, faq's, user
    forums and technical support. A review of tutorials or documentation developed
    by other users.
    Technical (Under the Hood)
    Open source
    The source code is available for inspection, modification and
    use.
    Closed source or propietary
    The source code is not available for
    inspection, modification and use.
    Open API
    A standard method for accessing the data and a mechanism that
    allows applications to be built on top of the social bookmarking tool.
    Meets usability criteria (for alternative browsing methods etc)
    Settle on
    a service (bobby etc) and test the tools.
    Reliability
    Uptime, speed. The challenge here will be to find something
    that provides a measurement of this.
    Integration with other tools
    Duplicates above. Should it be here on in
    the above list.
    Multilingual interface options
    Not sure what I meant by this. Maybe the
    ability to create alternate ways to post to the site (see the various
    del.icio.us bookmarklets as an option)
    Text reading options
    Again, no guess on what I meant
    here.
    Community
    Number of active users
    Number of links/bookmarks in system
    Sense of the content/topics collected
    Developers
    Support (financial or otherwise)
    Likely to be around in five years
  - How they compare[1]
    
    Backflip
    has been claimed -- webb
    
    [Once the above is gathered, put a table in here]
    Uses
    Try to find a few case studies of current use.
    
    Internal use in an organization
    
    Community of practice to share resources
    
    nptech tag
    nptech+youth
    There are many examples of this.
    Selecting a service
    Since they are all so new this might, at this point, still be a matter of
    personal preference but it seems like, by the time we get here, we might be able
    to make some solid recommendations.
    Sources:
    
    ResourcesTutorials
    [list]
    Useful: A beginner's Guide To
    Delicious
    http://www.beelerspace.com/index.php?p=890
    
    Lists of 3rd party tools
    Delicious: Complete Plugin/Tools
    List
    
    http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/02/absolutely-delicious-complete-tools-collection/
    
    Other
    
    Alexandra Samuels Delicious Bookmarks on Social Bookmarking: http://
    del.icio.us
    /Kossatsch/socialbookmarks
    
    Dlibrary: Social Bookmarking
    Overview
    http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html
    
    [1]This might also be made available as a spreadsheet for download. We need a
    template ...
  - Social Bookmarking Tool Comparison
    
    Submitted by coolvid on Mon, 2005/06/06
    - 10:20am. Blogs | RSS | Web
    Introduction Purpose
    This article looks at the evolving
    crop of social bookmarking tools, their functionality and examples of use. The
    goal is to help nonprofits understand the value of using social bookmarking
    tools and to determine which social bookmarking tool would best serve their
    needs. This is directed at nonprofit uses of these tools.
    Version
    The
    current version of this document is available at:
    http://www.consultantcommons.org/node/239Updating
    The
    landscape of social bookmarking tools is like the wild west. New tools are
    appearing (and disappearing) rapidly and the features of specific tools is also
    changing. Thanks to the open nature (in terms of syndication and APIs if not
    source) of many of these tools, third party add-ons can provide significant
    additional functionality. All of this means that the material in the article can
    become quickly out-of-date. For that reason, this has been set up, in CivicSpace parlance, as a book. This
    means that is editable by anyone who has a ConsultantCommons.org user account
    As new information becomes available, functionality changes, or new tools
    emerge, please feel free to make updates to this page.
    
    In addition, as this page is being developed, please feel free to add
    information either by editing the book itself or by leaving a comment.
    
    If you participate in the editing of this document, please include your name
    and any desired contact information in the "Contributors" section below.
    
    This being developed in response to a suggestion from Beth Kanter
    Contributors
    Marnie Webb, user: webb, ,ext337, marniewebb@gmail.com
    Beth Kanter beth@bethkanter.org
    Nancy White, nancyw@fullcirc.com
    SimonP
    Adam Loving
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