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Taming the Beast: Social Bookmarking - 3/1/2007 - School Library Journal

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At the University of Pennsylvania Library, there’s the “Penn Tags” program (tags.library.upenn.edu). It allows Penn students to create “projects” and collaboratively save links, like the nearly 300 that are listed under the title “1935–1945 Films, Philadelphia Film History.” Imagine the possibilities.
how might this work in schools? One obvious application is to have collaborative groups, classrooms, or even entire districts decide on a unique tag that everyone can use when they bookmark something of interest. Take the AP calculus class of Darren Kuropatwa in Winnepeg, for instance (apcalc06.blogspot.com)
Diigo is a service that saves a copy of the entire page into your account so if that precious resource disappears tomorrow (behind a subscription firewall, for instance) you still have access to it
Enter social bookmarking, tagging, and folksonomies. In a nutshell, the operating principle behind these concepts is this: if I find something interesting enough to save, odds are good that you will, too. And together, using these tools, we can build comprehensive resource lists much more effectively than any one of us could working alone. Exemplifying the wisdom of crowds, these applications are fast becoming an important resource for relevant information.

classroom2dot0 » Social Bookmarking

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Compare & Buy at the Lowest Prices - Pronto.com

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Explode!

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Social Search Overview « Colton Talks

Tags: search, social on 2007-05-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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money almost destroyed the quality of the search engines.
The other thing money changes is that it eliminates anonymity. If there’s money on the table, you know who’s producing the content. Seth says anonymity is the worst part of the Web.
The motivation that drives people to share is noncommercial interest in helping each other and sharing information. Introducing a financial incentive changes that and it makes it participating solely about the financial incentive. Once this happens people will start worrying about not getting paid enough instead of producing quality content. Going down the path of paying people is a really risky path you can’t reverse and it changes the dynamic of the communities.
The main problem with social search is that there’s no way to track who said what.
Yahoo Answers: Answers enables you to ask as question and the community will answer. It’s about people helping people
He does a search for “nyc hotel�? and shows how the results that appear on del.icio.us are considerably more relevant than what you’d find from a traditional engine.
how many people use del.icio.us and 75 percent of the audience raised their hand – that’s pretty impressive given the geeky nature of the product.
The different between Flickr and regular search is that you can take human interaction into account, which therefore makes the pictures are more engaging.
three ways Yahoo is using social search:
The future of search is the integration of social knowledge to guide you to the right community.
If you want to find exact, encyclopedia-like information, then a traditional engine will help you, but it’s not going to take you to the region of knowledge you’ll have in front of you through a social engine. The Web is static. If you have knowledge (education, experience, etc) you can guide and give what the user wants.
He defines social search as a knowledge that you use to guide you into a region of what you want.
The right thing to do is to open up the deep pages of your site and expose the stuff that’s not getting attention. Don’t do it yourself; have your fans, readers, and the people who buy from you to build out the content. If they built out content because they like you, they’re putting relevant and meaningful content in front of potential customers.
Seth built Squidoo because he saw a need for human beings to create a post search engine filter. Users can use Squidoo has a launching pad to find what they are ultimately looking for.
Trust networks are going to evolve, and we’re going to see increased personalization and user control over result filtering. We’ll be able to say I don’t want results from Site X, I want them from Site Y. Social search will work best for non-text content like photos, music and video.
see people trusting other people’s judgment
What will ultimately work?

The combination of algorithm and people-mediated search will become the new format.
The trouble with tagging is that language is ambiguous, there’s a lack of controlled language, humans are lazy, and some of them are just plain idiots.

The other problem with social search is the spammers and people trying to game the system
The problem with social search is the scale and scope.
A major factor is that many, if not most, of the players in social search are leveraging the work of volunteers
Algorithm search itself is social because fundamentally search engines reflect human bias in the form of programmer choices. They determine what’s quality and what’s spam. Search engines also observe human behavior like click paths, popular URLs, etc and use this information to modify their algorithms. As of late, we’re even seeing new personalization efforts to refine search for everyone.