#13 Tagging, folksomonies and social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us - an odd name - I have often wondered how they came up with that name! I think the idea of sharing links like this is good - I used to do it with Furl and it sort of went by the wayside.

The great thing is that you can see what others have 'bookmarked' with the same tags and find sites that you may not have known about.

I can see a real use for this in academia, for teaching with students. You can have a link on Facebook to Del.icio.us links. Wouldn't it be good for a lecturer to set up a FB account for the subject and then use Del.icio.us to mark sites that the students needed to look at for their studies. Just a way to bring the learning into 'their space'.

I created a Del.icio.us account for myself, but had to do it from home, because of the IT restrictions we have at work. I wasn't too keen on having to download something onto my tool bar though - I don't like external things that are supposed to think for you - I find they can often have a lot of spy ware with them

On the whole. quite a good way to bookmark remotely.

# 12 Rollyo

Well, pretty impressed with what Rollyo can do. It would be great to have different search rolls for diferent subjects by using the drop down menu feature available. It would be used on the reference computer and there would be no problems about any sites that are bookmarked vanishing overnight when the system restores.

The only drawback I can see is that it gives fairly meaningless results from the sponsored links, that really have no relevance to the search - they are just a means to draw you in. I guess that is to be expected from something that would probably require advertising to be able to survive.

I was going to do a work related search roll, but instead did one on some of my favourite professional reading blogs - hence the name 'Cool Blogs'