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Wikipedia on Social BookmarkingThis forum post has messages dated from 10/31/06 through 11/24/06, please be sure to read all the messages. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Social Bookmarking - Social Bookmarking
| Wikipedia on Social Bookmarking The concept of shared online bookmarking dates back to April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Within the next three years online bookmark services became competitive, with venture-backed companies like Backflip, Blink, [citation needed] Clip2, Hotlinks, Quiver, and others entering the market. Lacking viable models for making money, most of this early generation of social bookmarking companies failed as the dot-com bubble burst. The contemporary concepts of social bookmarking and tagging took root with the launch of the web site oneview in 1999[1] and del.icio.us, in September of 2003.This system has several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders. All tag-based classification of Internet resources (such as web sites) is done by human beings, who understand the content of the resource, as opposed to software which algorithmically attempts to determine the meaning of a resource. This provides for semantically classified tags, which are hard to find with contemporary search engines. Additionally, as people bookmark resources that they find useful, resources that are of more use are bookmarked by more users. Thus, such a system will "rank" a resource based on its perceived utility. This is arguably a more useful metric for end users than other systems which rank resources based on the number of external links pointing to it. See also * Collaborative tagging * List of social software * Folksonomy * Semantic Web * social networking * social software * Tags |
#1Somewhere Over The Rainbow | I love wikipedia. They have a great explanation for everything. I always go there for research. |
|  They sure give microsoft encarta a run for the money! |
| I don't know if anyone else has heard this about wikipedia. I had a college professor that would not let us use wikipedia as a source because anyone can post there, therefore the information may not be fact. Personally, I also love wikipedia, but it may not all be factual. |
| Yes, Wikipedia is loss of control for the establishment! |
| Thanks for posting this because I really didn't have an idea of what this all involved. Since I started using wikipedia I don't ever use encarta. |
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