Social_Bookmarking

__ Bookmark Services __ Social Bookmarking Service at its best allows one to share the bookmarks of others by searching on the tags used. See what the capabilities of the service you choose below are and how they work. Blinklist, [] [|Blogmarks], [|http://blogmarks.net] [|Blummy], [|http://www.blummy.com] Clipboard, [|https://clipboard.com/] Delicious, [|http://www.delicious.com] - Johnson, p. 102; Solomon, p. 258 & 174-176 (not available in School No. 47 high school?) [|Digg], [|http://digg.com] Diigo, [|http://www.diigo.com] - Johnson, p. 102; Solomon, p. 177-179, 258 (not available in China?) Edutagger, [|http://www.edutagger.com] - Solomon, p. 258 Feedmarker - [|http://www.feedmarker.com] (Off-line for maintenance 7-2-12) Google Bookmarks, [|http://bookmarks.google.com] [|Jeteye], [|http://www.jeteye.com] Jog the Web, [|http://www.jogtheweb.com] - Solomon, p. 259 My Link Vault, [] [|9rules], [|http://9rules.com] SharedCopy, [|http://www.sharedcopy.com] Social Marking, [] StumbeUpon, [|http://www.stumbleupon.com] - Solomon, p. 259 Web-chops, [|http://www.web-chops.com] Yahoo! Bookmarks - []
 * Delicious and Diigo are the leaders in this aspect of social bookmarking.
 * Google Bookmarks and Web-Chops allows sharing bookmarks, but only as lists or topic pages.
 * Still others, like Yahoo! bookmarks, allow universal access to one's own bookmarks, but sharing appears to be limited to sending bookmarks out to others individually, rather than making them generally available to all.
 * Some (Digg and StumbleUpon, for instance) are more about reporting unusual items, than saving them for oneself or others.
 * Most of these services allow some annotation capability about the bookmarks, while some (like Diigo) go so far as to allow highlighting on saved pages.
 * Tutorial at [], if you are interested.
 * Tutorial at [], if you are interested.

__ Other (but related) Services __ Instapaper, [|http://www.instapaper.com] - Solomon, p. 66

__ Portals __ Portals relate to social bookmarking as a means to quickly scan new content recently found on a given topic and bring it to a common site with other feeds on different topics, but using the same general technology. So, one can set a portal to collect newly bookmarked items using the sites where bookmarks are freely shared - typically Delicious and Diigo. The technology used to do this is RSS (real simple syndication or rich site summary). Netvibes, [|http://www.netvibes.com] - Solomon, p. 206-208, 259 Pageflakes, Solomon, p. 259 (No longer operationing, since January 2012) ProtoPage - [|http://protopage.com]
 * Tutorial at [], if you are interested

Social Bookmarking is a very important academic and research service. For students who are not in China, I recommend that you review Delicious or Diigo, as these two are very widely used. Feel free to take a look at one of the less well known services for comparison, as shifts in use always are possible.
 * __Performance Record__ **

Since there have been issues with Delicious and Diigo in China, I suspect Chinese students will need to look to the other services. I have looked diligently to find possibilities other than Delicious and Diigo. Before I go too much further in my investigations, I need to know what is accessible in China. I am eager to get your assessments of what these services can do. We need to have the following questions addressed. For the service(s) you are evaluating:
 * 1) Is annotation possible? If so, is it general annotation or annotation tied to a portion of the web site bookmarked?
 * 2) Is highlighting possible?
 * 3) Is tagging available? If so, is it open tagging (any tag) or is there a menu of "approved" tags (or categories)?
 * 4) Can you rate the item bookmarked? If so, on what basis?
 * 5) Can you share the bookmark? If so, individually or as a group (i.e., list, topic page, etc.)
 * 6) If bookmarks can be shared, can you search others' bookmarks, or is the sharing negotiated in some way with the person doing the bookmarking?
 * 7) Do you find it easy to use?

Please include answers to these questions in your blog post about the service, its appearance, use, and potential for the classroom.

You do not have to review a Portal unless you want to. Portals are part of what makes social bookmarking so powerful, though. The text mixes the bookmarks with the portals for this reason. I think the mixture is confusing because the portals function differently than the bookmarking services do. Also, there are many portals, but NetVibes and Page Flakes were available in China last year. They are probably the most widely used public portals, along with ProtoPage. So, when ready, we should be able to use one of these three services and side-step unnecessary confusion with too many choices for portals, as well.