social bookmarking Concepts

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

by Mark Hurst · 15 Jun 2007 · 153pp · 52,175 words

worth a reality check. Tags can be genuinely valuable, but only if users use them consistently and accurately across a bitstream. For example, on the “social bookmarking” site del.icio.us, the mostly techie users consistently assign tags to Web pages they bookmark. In large quantities, such user-generated categorization can be

Ajax: The Definitive Guide

by Anthony T. Holdener · 25 Jan 2008 · 982pp · 221,145 words

the site. You can find the API documentation at http://www. simpy.com/doc/api/rest. Publicly Available Web Services | 623 Blogmarks Blogmarks is another social bookmarking service, though it is more “blog-like” than an actual blog. Through the use of its AtomAPI, you can retrieve Atom feeds from the site

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custom tools to programmatically access and interact with the service. Protocol(s): REST Service account: Yes Developer key: No Cost: Free Blogmarks Category: Bookmarks Overview: Social bookmarking service API link: http://dev.blogmarks.net/wiki/DeveloperDocs Description: Blogmarks.net is a free and open bookmarks manager based on keywords (a.k.a

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API Catalog | 895 del.icio.us Category: Bookmarks Overview: Internet bookmarking API link: http://del.icio.us/help/api/ Description: del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web site—the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any

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): REST Service account: No Developer key: No Cost: Free License: Creative Commons Share Alike license Web Service API Catalog | 901 Ma.gnolia Category: Bookmarks Overview: Social bookmarking service API link: http://ma.gnolia.com/support/api Description: The Ma.gnolia API makes available key features for accessing and managing bookmark collections data

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in various applications. Protocol(s): REST Service account: Yes Developer key: Yes Cost: Free Simpy Category: Bookmarks Overview: Social bookmarking service API link: http://www.simpy.com/doc/api/rest Description: Simpy is a social bookmarking service that lets you save, tag, and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other

Designing Social Interfaces

by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone · 30 Sep 2009 · 518pp · 49,555 words

” Tools for Sharing Bookmarklet Send/Share Widget Activity Streams Private Sharing Send This Casual Privacy Share Application Give Gift Public Sharing Many Publics Share This Social Bookmarking Uploading to the Cloud Embedding Ongoing Sharing Further Reading 209 210 210 212 215 215 216 218 221 223 227 228 232 233 234 236

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. While the initial gesture of sharing is consistent, there are actually multiple architectures of sharing that can be made available to the user, most notably: • Social Bookmarking Download at WoweBook.Com Public Sharing 233 • Uploading to the Cloud • Embedding • Ongoing Sharing Why Providing a one-time Public Sharing option in a ubiquitous

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seen on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) The New York Times (http://nytimes.com/) The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/) Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com/) Social Bookmarking Social bookmarking is a way for a community of users to collectively organize hyperlinks to web-based knowledge resources in a community-managed list

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metadata to organize these resources instead of utilizing a conventional hierarchical folder organization. Retrieval of this information from such systems is based on keyword search. Social bookmarking is thus a form of One-Time Sharing for gathering pointers, generally in the form of title, link, description (the same canonical form used for

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early blogging and RSS). Social bookmarking thrives thanks to the convenience of a bookmarklet, which moves the action of bookmarking socially into the same part of the interface (the “browser chrome

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Figure 8-23. A bit o’ JavaScript is all it takes to make a humble bookmark into a mighty social bookmarking bookmarklet. Whether invoked via a bookmarklet or Share This widget, the social bookmarking interface can guide the person posting the pointer toward capturing and reviewing the title and description metadata for the bookmark

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a more intuitive sense, as the place “out there” where we’re increasingly leaving our email inboxes, our photographs, our financial information, and more. Where social bookmarking deals with sharing pointers to objects, uploading to the cloud means sharing the objects themselves, by contributing digital copies to the site’s repository. The

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and user-generated content in organizations is gradually changing the way knowledge is created, shared, and utilized. With tools like employee blogs, corporate wikis, and social bookmarking, people within the organization have a way to capture and share their knowledge without letting technology get in the way. Blogs (and microblogs like Twitter

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corporate content policies and multiple levels of reviews in a more traditional environment. Wikis enable employees to create and edit content in a collaborative environment. Social bookmarking and social ranking of content (as exemplified by Delicious and Digg) enable an entire community to organize what it knows in a single repository, enabling

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Slashdot, 392 comments above a rating threshhold, 393 SlideShare displaying contributions, 197 embedding statistics, 238 favorites, 193 WordPress bloggers, 237 slogans, 37 Smarr, Joseph, 457 social bookmarking, 233 social filtering, 336 social graph, 359 Socializr, 403 Social Metadata and Future Uses, 332–334 social networking applications, early days, 308 Social Networks and

Designing for the Social Web

by Joshua Porter · 18 May 2008 · 201pp · 21,180 words

exciting. In our excitement over new ways to connect, we must not forget that all software begins by providing personal value to the individual. The social bookmarking tool Del.icio.us was the ﬁrst site to implement the feature that has come to be known as tagging. With tagging, people add words

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of the system, and although they are very important, they don’t explain why someone might use them. Let’s imagine we were building a social bookmarking tool. The features might be those in the left column of the following table, while the beneﬁts are those things in the right column: the

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more speciﬁc you can get about how to use your application, the more your software will resonate with your potential audience. Del.icio.us, the social bookmarking tool, is about as broad a tool as you can get. Anybody who wants to bookmark web pages can use it. That is to say

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the system relevant. Adding Tags Some services allow people to tag content, which allows aggregation of the content in additional, helpful ways. For example, the social bookmarking site Del.icio.us lets you add tags to bookmarks as you enter them into the system. Figure 6.5 Del.icio.us allows people

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Clients, 70–71 Blinksale, 70–71 blog feeds, 176 blog-tracking site, 19 Blogger, 32, 176 blogs, 19, 42–43, 152, 153 bookmarks. See also social bookmarking tools displaying most popular, 136 and Endowment Effect, 121 purpose of, 24 sharing, 145 as social metrics, 176 tagging, 133 Buchheit, Paul, 57 bulletin board

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, 66–69 sign-ups metric, 175 Simon, Herbert, 12 Slideshare, 32, 136, 147 SmartLinks feature, AdaptiveBlue, 88 Smith, Gene, 142 social behavior, 6–7, 9 social bookmarking tools, 24, 78, 84, 133, 153. See also Del.icio.us social circles, 143 social conduits, 143 social cues, 80 social design, 5–6 social

Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher · 1 Jul 2009

machine to interpret. Human editorial guidance in mapping data setA to data setB is required. Consider the two following examples of XML from two different “social bookmarking” services. Although they’re both clearly XML, representation of the “bookmark” is wildly different, and yet they both provide a similar service to the end

The Art of SEO

by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola and Rand Fishkin · 7 Mar 2012

is poor. There are many other types of places where you may be able to get links: directories, social media sites, university sites, media websites, social bookmarking sites, and so on. You can think about implementing link-building campaigns in many of these different sectors as diversification. There are several good reasons

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identified. Be sure that you also reference your multimedia files within appropriate RSS or mRSS feeds. Use social bookmarking tools that will help make the video more visible. This works regardless of promotional medium. Social bookmarking sites can help your video go viral. Offer the option to embed your video in other people’s

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being monitored by UrlTrends. In addition to link popularity, Google PageRank, and Alexa Rank, UrlTrends also records outgoing links, a snapshot of keyword rankings, and social bookmarking metrics. UrlTrends offers a free account that provides basic reporting for a limited number of domains. SpyFu SpyFu is primarily geared toward PPC advertisers, but

Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran · 17 Dec 2008 · 519pp · 102,669 words

data and parsing XML. Here are some of the web sites with open APIs that you'll see in this book: del.icio.us A social bookmarking application whose open API lets you download links by tag or from a specific user. Kayak A travel site with an API for conducting searches

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collaborative filtering techniques used by many online retailers to recommend products or media. The chapter includes a section on recommending links to people from a social bookmarking site, and building a movie recommendation system from the MovieLens dataset. Chapter 3 Builds on some of the ideas in Chapter 2 and introduces two

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these cases so that they'll all work with the same set of algorithms, and we'll create working examples with movie critic scores and social bookmarking. Collaborative Filtering You know that the low-tech way to get recommendations for products, movies, or entertaining web sites is to ask your friends. You

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of usage examples is available at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html. pydelicious pydelicious is a library for retrieving data from the del.icio.us social bookmarking site. del.icio.us has an official API that is used for some calls, but pydelicious adds some extra features that we used in Chapter

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff · 23 May 2011 · 344pp · 96,690 words

is a Critic, as are one in five online Europeans and 42 percent of Japan’s online population. Collectors save URLs and tags on a social bookmarking service like Delicious, vote for sites on a service like Digg, or use RSS feeds. This act of collecting and aggregating information plays a vital

Erlang Programming

by Francesco Cesarini · 496pp · 70,263 words

systems: • Amazon uses Erlang to implement SimpleDB, providing database services as a part of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). • Yahoo! uses it in its social bookmarking service, Delicious, which has more than 5 million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. • Facebook uses Erlang to power the backend of its chat service

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languages, 4 defensive programming, 7, 47, 436 delete function, 300 delete_handler function, 133 delete_usr/1 function, 301 deleting objects in Mnesia, 300 Delicious social bookmarking service, 2 del_table_index function, 302 demonitor function, 144, 147 design patterns, 263 (see also OTP behaviors) chapter exercises, 137 client/server model, 117

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You

by Sangeet Paul Choudary, Marshall W. van Alstyne and Geoffrey G. Parker · 27 Mar 2016 · 421pp · 110,406 words

stand-alone mode, using Delicious to store browser bookmark lists in the cloud for their personal consumption. Once the user base hit critical mass, the social bookmarking features started getting used, and the value of the network expanded rapidly as the number of users increased. Now Delicious has become a popular tool