Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Thing 8: Social Bookmarking

My Delicious Page
Username:  Katie Ricklefs

Although Delicious is a site knock-off of yahoo, I was able to create a Delicous account with my gmail username.  This was nice because I didn’t have to create an entire new yahoo email, which I didn’t want to take the time to do. 

Social bookmarking sites ,like delicious, are handy because the sites I save can be found from any computer.  What’s more, the saved sites can be categorized into groups of like bookmarks.  In this way, I don’t have to search through a long list of websites (which was the old way of doing things).  I can save the pop cultures bookmarking sites in one place, the book lover sites in another, and on and on and on… I’m a bit organizer so I especially liked the tag feature.

I added Jane, Jason, and Pranav to my network.  This was simple enough, although you have to know their username in order to add them, which could be tricky.  It was fun to see what other people bookmarked.  After that, I searched around the types of sites I could bookmark and tag.  I looked through various food sites, hoping to find some good recipes and tagged a few of those.  It’s nice because although I don’t have time to look through everything right now, I can simply tag the site and come back to it later to look through whatever interests me when I have more time. 

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