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D-Lib Magazine about social bookmarking tools

Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott write about social bookmarking tools and tagging.

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 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. Why spill any ink (digital or not) in rewriting what someone else has already written about instead of just pointing at the original story and adding the merest of titles, descriptions and tags for future reference? More importantly, why not make these personal ‘link playlists’ available to oneself and to others from whatever browser or computer one happens to be using at the time?

The article is quite interesting, especially because they mention some points and aspects I still ignored. The second part includes a case study of Connotea, written by Ben Lund, Tony Hammond, Martin Flack and Timo Hannay (I’d like to mention that Lund, Hammond and Hannay work for the Nature Publishing Group that is behind Connotea).

Both articles are part of No. 4 (2005) of the D-Lib Magazine.

Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review & Social Bookmarking Tools (II): A Case Study – Connotea

# · 17. April 2005, 17:33 · 247 Wörter
Kategorien social bookmarks & tagging · Tags: connotea, socialbookmarks
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