Blog Posts About: socialbookmarking

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Social Bookmarking was a big deal in the mid-2000s. Services like Delicious were widely adopted and people were enjoying the ability to organize and share bookmarked links. Over time, social bookmarking evovled and became less relevant as new services like Digg and Reddit gained huge audiences.

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I've been inspired and impressed by a couple of my local Seattle friends who have, over the last year, become some of my favorite online community-focused bloggers.

I first met Ryan Turner working on a big project with a large aero-space company formerly based in the Seattle area . At the time, Ryan impressed me with his mad workplace ethnographic skillz. Since then, he's gone on to work at the web design consultancy Zaaz and refocused his efforts on helping Zaaz clients wrap their minds around online communities and Web 2.0. Lucky for us, he talks about these experience on his blog - Web Social Architecture - The Mad Science of Online Communities. (at least that's the title this week. Ryan knows what I mean.)

A post of Ryan's that caught my eye lately was: The Basics of Web 2.0 Personalization. These are the cliff's notes (and cool visuals) of a talk he did recently as Zaaz.

Sean O'Driscoll is another favorite that I've come to know recently through project work. Sean's one of the few people at Microsoft that actually has "community" in his title. He's the General Manager of Support Communities and MVP. Along with his real-world experience and love for BBQing, Sean's passion for community show's through on his new-ish blog: Community Group Therapy.

Like me, Sean is always looking for easier ways to describe the trends and technologies that are shaping Web 2.0. I particularly like the racing-inspired term "tag drafting" to describe using your friends as filters for information coming from sites like Del.icio.us.

I'm looking forward to hearing more from both Ryan and Sean - keep it up, please.

Many-to-Many: Social link management

Clay provides a short rundown of some of the sites out there offering link management services. I recently tried one of these services "Furl" and I'm intrigued, but the jury is still out in terms of long-term adoption.

Here's why I like these services:

I often find myself reading a site and thinking- "I really want to come back to this, but I don't want to blog it, or add it to my bookmarks (which I never use anyway)." These services give you something to do with that link.

Often, they allow you to click a button (sometimes a "bookmarklet") and add the link to an online space for future reference. Quick and easy.

Furl allows you to categorize each link, rate it, and add comments and keywords for future reference. When I need to find that page again, I consult my Furl page.

The cool part, at least for me, is that this information also become public- and it can be subscribed-to via email. So, I subscribe to a couple of other peoples' Furl sites to keep up with sites they are referencing. Here's my Furl page.

In many ways, I see these services as an easy way to have link-blog. Whenever I see an interesting page that I don't want to blog- I Furl it.

I'm trying it out, but I'd say my chances of long term usage are 55-60%. If it does fly- I could see adding a link to my Furl page from my normal blog.

Also: The Social Software Weblog has more on these services. Go Peter!