Thing #13 Delicious

I have been using Delicious for a couple of years. This is a pretty cool bookmarking site. Our school did this together in the computer lab, so if you connect with your friends then you are doing this at the same time and able to look at their stuff immediately and bookmark it on your site and vice versa. Now, when I use this site it is already set up and easy to look at what others have and get good ideas.

Many of my bookmarks do not have tags on them, so that is something that I will definitely go back and do. I think the tagging part is important, not just to you but others that are looking at your bookmarks.

This is a useful service and I will continue using it.

I spent several hours looking at Digg, Diigo, Furl, Magnolia, and the top 20 list.

Digg I liked that you could submit top news stories and you can see how many "digs" each story has. Another password and username.

When I clicked on Furl, I got Diigo. WOW! This is a whole other social bookmarking site with a new setup but a way to share what you are looking at on the web. You can highlight or put a sticky note on an article you are reading. Whenever someone in your network looks at this, they will be able to see what you found interesting as if they had picked up a book you had been reading. This is way more in depth than facebook. Of course you are not just communicating and talking to people but it is more of a sharing what you are looking at on the web with articles and such. I can see this being very useful in a high school or college class where you may need to do some additional reading and make comments on it.

Furl is like a big filing cabinet. You can read others' articles if they have made their file public. It is also easy to save articles and email it to friends.

Magnolia "is currently being remade an invitation only bookmarking service".

When I looked at the top 20 bookmarking services #1 was Digg. Others on it were Reddit, Delicious, and Technorati. The only one I had heard of was Delicious.