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What's Social Bookmarking Again?

In the video below, Lee breaks down the mechanics, how-to, and advantages of social bookmarking over using plain old web browser favorites or bookmarks.

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Posted on August 8, 2007 4:33 PM

Framing myFavorites

Ok, so myFavorites. It's no secret on Earthling that I'm a huge fan of Yahoo's social bookmarking site http://del.icio.us. It's become about as indispensable to me as e-mail, for keeping track of all of the stuff I find online and that people point out to me. I also use it to discover other people's finds, but the part I can't do without is the ability to categorize and hold on to URL's and find them again later. EarthLink saw this as a tool that could be helpful to a much wider set of users than even necessarily knows it exists right now. I think once you're exposed to the simplicity and discoverability of a del.icio.us, it's tough to ever want to go back to browser bookmarks again. And in our internal testing, it was clear to me that in addition to individuals, companies can benefit from its use because when you have a pool of like-minded users, the list of bookmarks they create is really valuable. I'd like for us to be able to offer the public a feed of the things we tag as important.

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Posted on July 14, 2006 11:55 AM

Where are my tags--Google!

Since Dave mentioned my position on tagging, I thought today would be a good chance for me to elaborate on my observations that Google doesn't use tags. Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch points out that Google's new product Notebook doesn't allow for the use of tags. To me, this is no surprise. This has been a notable observation of mine for sometime now.

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Posted on May 16, 2006 12:29 PM

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