Okay, I am getting a bit nervous… I am barely halfway done and only a month to go. I know I could speed through, but I kind of want to get a good feel for each one of these tasks and all, not that I’m likely to write a thoroughly informative post like can be found over at TechCrunch, you know?
So, like other friends have said social bookmarking has great potential. One nice thing is simply moving your “favorites” off the desktop and in to a browser. This is much more convenient allowing your favorite links to be accessible from any computer that has access to the internet. Many social bookmarking sites allow you to create folders, categories or attach keywords to aid in finding a particular bookmark you have saved.
One thing I was surprised to discover is that there are so many social bookmarking sites out there. As far as which one is the best or good features different sites have, I would have no idea at this point. I guess one would need to play around and discover for themselves which they like best.
As the name implies there is more to social bookmarking sites than simply having your favorite bookmarked sites available as you roam from computer to computer. These sites have a variety of functions allowing one to share their bookmarks with others, possibly make comments or rank them. Sharing your bookmarks might be useful to share with a club, a research group or coworkers. Ways of providing next level tools or other information for others in your particular group by having links to various sites. The ability to rank your bookmarks could be another way of letting your “group” know which bookmarks might be most useful for the group. Thus, social bookmarking sites could be a great way of creating resources that can help particular groups in accomplishing set tasks.
For checking out social bookmarking I signed up with del.icio.us. I found it very easy to set up and use. I used my favorite browser, Opera, and del.icio.us had a handy feature where I could simply drop the del.icio.us icon into the browser and afterwards every time I visit a site I was interested in adding to my del.icio.us account it is a cinch to add simply by clicking on the del.icio.us icon in the browser. I know it probably doesn’t make what I am saying until you actually sit down and try it. Since, I didn’t try setting up del.icio.us using another browser I don’t know how easy it might be, but can only assume it should be as easy.
Anyhoo, that is all I got to say for now. I have to start rolling on the rest of these 23 Things…