Sunday, August 26, 2007

Web 2.0 Browsing with friends (and friends’ friends) or, as the Beatles put it—“I get by with a little help from my friends…”

With the advent of web 2.0 tools for social bookmarking or sharing such as del.icio.us, furl, LQ, Digg, Blinklist, Chipmark, Connectedy, Connotea, Diigo, Lookmarks, Ma.gnolia, Netvouz, Simpy, Spurl, Unalog and many others, there is now a convienent way to share what we like and dislike without referring to reading lines of text-based material posted on facebook, myspace, or the like. These tools for sharing bookmarks and favorites are typically simple to use and using them create a “people powered” search engine for finding the most popular links.

There have been hundreds of “clones” and “better mousetraps” created and used.

For an excellent up-to-date listing of the myriad of so-called social bookmarking (tagging) tools available see:
http://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/01/all-social-that-can-bookmark.html

On the downside, I am not entirely certain that I want to trust others who may or may not have the same taste in humor or likes/dislikes as I do. I haven’t done much research on this aspect yet, perhaps there are ways to filter the “popularity” factor…

*Cheers & Waves*
Have fun!

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