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Sarah TarpleySocial bookmarking and tagging -- review of features, functionality and major applications at the time written.
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Enrique EstellésD-Lib Magazine
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Wei Lin Gwen TanSocial and collaborative bookmarking
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Kyra KalmarSocial and Collaborative Bookmarking
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Charley LansleySocial Bookmarking
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alan_rcn zaitchik_rcnBackground- history of social bookmarking as of 2005 (!)
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This paper reviews some current initiatives, as of early 2005, in providing
public link management applications on the Web – utilities that are often
referred to under the general moniker of 'social bookmarking tools'. There are a
couple of things going on here: 1) server-side software aimed specifically at
managing links with, crucially, a strong, social networking flavour, and 2) an
unabashedly open and unstructured approach to tagging, or user classification,
of those links.
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Java ManArticle from D-Lib Magazine about Social Bookmarking Tools.
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j thurowOlder but still good overview of social bookmarking from D-Lib
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By contrast, the new link managers tend to use dynamic categorization systems whereby the user annotates links with whatever terms seem most relevant. Links are generally annotated with 'tags', which are free-form labels assigned by the user and not drawn from any controlled vocabulary. This is very much a 'bottom-up' (or personal) approach compared with the traditional 'top-down' (or organizational) structured means of classification.
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Carla PritchettInformation about social bookmarking tools
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J. AkersD-Lib Magazine
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marco antonioD-Lib Magazine
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Joanne KirtleyD-Lib Magazine
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Social bookmarking tools also share this characteristic: the more they are used, the more value accrues to the system itself and thereby to all who participate in it.
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This is very much a 'bottom-up' (or personal) approach compared with the traditional 'top-down' (or organizational) structured means of classification.
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"the Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you"
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utilities that are often referred to under the general moniker of 'social bookmarking tools'. There are a couple of things going on here: 1) server-side software aimed specifically at managing links with, crucially, a strong, social networking flavour, and 2) an unabashedly open and unstructured approach to tagging, or user classification, of those links.
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Heather Wellockyahoo... starting metadata with yahoo but than too big so became bottom-up by the people
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upstart Netscape browser. This was to be called Internet Explorer and
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new, upstart Netscape browser. This was to be called Internet Explorer
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Kristen KuehnleIntroduction to Social Bookmarking
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Dave JefferyBecause, 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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L S2005-04: Tony, Hammond, et al
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ust as long as those hyperlinks (or let's call them plain old links) are managed, tagged, commented upon, and published onto the Web, they represent a user's own personal library placed on public record, which – when aggregated with other personal libraries – allows for rich, social networking opportunities.
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Just as long as those hyperlinks (or let's call them plain old links) are managed, tagged, commented upon, and published onto the Web, they represent a user's own personal library placed on public record, which – when aggregated with other personal libraries – allows for rich, social networking opportunities.
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Joachim MichelD-Lib Magazine
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Xavier MasArticle sobre marcació social.
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Timothy Welshbackground and argument for using link management software.
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madzientistD-Lib Magazine
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This is very much a 'bottom-up' (or personal) approach compared with the
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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
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Laura StilesBasics for the presentation.
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Because, while bookmarks allowed users to record sites of interest, they soon
grew to become unwieldy in terms of needing to be managed within the confines of
a simple, hierarchical structure. It became apparent with the growing power of
the new search engines that it was easier just to search for a particular site
afresh each time – in effect, search engines were now able to provide a dynamic
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These would become the social link managers, with links not randomly discovered
or crawled by robots and spiders, but registered, tagged and rated by users for
their own benefit, and made available to other users [n9].
Robot wisdom was increasingly being challenged by the 'buzz latency' [11] that such a shared personal recommendation system creates. - 9 more annotations...
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m cassimatisvia wkp Connotea. part II paper (nxt pgmrk) case study of Connotea (of wh are authors) // Matt Biddulph in an XML.com article last year [2 nxt pgmrk], in wh reviews one of better known social bkmrkg tools, del.icio.us [3], declares the "del.icio.us-spac
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Emily MannDescription of various tools, emph on Ed
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Why spill any ink
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There is a range from a 'selfish' tagging discipline, where the users are primarily tagging their own content for their own retrieval purposes, right through to a more 'altruistic' tagging discipline, where the user is tagging others' content for yet others to retrieve.

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Phil BrownThis paper reviews some current initiatives, as of early 2005, in providing public link management applications on the Web – utilities that are often referred to under the general moniker of 'social bookmarking tools'. There are a couple of thin
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Gemma WittonThe 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 a
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Fulgencio Murcia BelmonteComparativa
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Veronika SmithThis paper reviews current initiatives in providing public 'social bookmarking tools'. 1) server-side software aimed specifically at managing links 2) open and unstructured approach to tagging, or user classification
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Alain MaroisArticle de fond sur le socialbookmarking par les promoteur de Connotea, service de partage de références bibliographiques lancé par NaturePublishingGroup
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We note there have been some attempts to introduce structure within tags. Some users have adopted private conventions to indicate hierarchy (or other structural relationships) within an otherwise flat namespace, but these indications are just intended for personal use and cannot as yet be leveraged to any common advantage. Another approach that has been discussed (and, in the case of del.icio.us even implemented as 'tag bundles') is the tagging of tags, which could result in the creation of hierarchical folksonomies. This is an area that is worth tracking – there are no rules as yet.
Anecdotal evidence (see Jon Udell's screencast on del.icio.us [23]) supports the view that there is a natural tendency towards the convergence of tags. Strategies to facilitate this development are also possible. In a blog entry entitled 'Folksonomies: How we can improve the tags' [24], Lars Pind has suggested various possibilities including the following: a) 'suggest tags for me', b) 'find synonyms automatically', c) 'help me use the same tags others use', d) 'infer hierarchy from the tags', and e) 'make it easy to adjust tags on old content'. Currently only option e) appears to be in common use, presumably because it is the easiest to implement. -
Table 1. Reviewed Social Bookmarking Tools - Comparison
Tool
Sponsor
Public Launch
Users
Links
Tags†
Business Model
CiteULike
Privately Managed (UK)
Nov. '04
>2k
>25k
>60k
Possible academic funding, targeted advertising and/or sale of code
Connotea
Nature Publishing Group (UK)
Dec. '04
>2k
>4k
>3k
Supported by NPG as potential driver to other products
del.icio.us
Privately Managed (US)‡
Dec. '03
50k
1m
2m
Advertising being considered
Flickr
Ludicorp (Canada)
Feb. '04
245k
3.5m
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Annual premium account ($60), Google Ads
Frassle
Privately Managed (US)
Nov. '03
≈1k
>1m
>30k
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Furl
LookSmart (US)
Jan. '04
>100k
>2m
100k
Advertising
Simpy
Privately Managed (US)
May '04
>2k
>300k
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Spurl.net
Spurl ehf. (Iceland)
Jan. '04
≈16k
>1.6m
≈300k
Sale of web site information, ASP services, advertising
unalog
Yale University (US)
Jan. '04
>250
>5k
700
Yale-supported R&D project
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while bookmarks allowed users to record sites of interest, they soon grew to become unwieldy in terms of needing to be managed within the confines of a simple, hierarchical structure
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Wikipedia [14], the free encyclopedia, with user-generated content produced at a fraction of the cost of more established publishers
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the Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you"
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they represent a user's own personal library placed on public record,
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allows for rich, social networking opportunities.
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spamming.
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although it should be noted that new regional bookmarking tools for French and Japanese users are already emerging
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As a simple demonstration of the way in which social bookmarking tools might benefit academic research,
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Tools
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Hotlists, which, while still hierarchical and aping the common file system paradigm of folders and files, at least allowed for links to be easily recorded and for ready access to any recorded link from any page within the browser.
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hierarchical structure
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Reinvention is revolution – it brings us always back to beginnings.
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just pointing at the original story and adding the merest of titles
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Emma BentonTony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott
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1) server-side software aimed specifically at managing links with, crucially, a strong, social networking flavour, and
2) an unabashedly open and unstructured approach to tagging, or user classification, of those links.
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