Comments on: Social Bookmarking Overview http://huddledmasses.org/social-bookmarking-overview/ You can do more than breathe for free... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:27:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Humergence http://huddledmasses.org/social-bookmarking-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-17444 Humergence Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:45:36 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/?p=250#comment-17444 Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds... The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. This book discusses the theory that a larger group of diverse people can make better decisions, and display more intelligence than any smaller collection of experts. Surowiecki's central concept is that the... Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds…

The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. This book discusses the theory that a larger group of diverse people can make better decisions, and display more intelligence than any smaller collection of experts. Surowiecki’s central concept is that the…

]]> By: Jaykul http://huddledmasses.org/social-bookmarking-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-14869 Jaykul Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:03:04 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/?p=250#comment-14869 Well, honestly, I think all these social bookmarking sites have big impact as a factor in the google recipe (that is: people create links to sites, google's recipe is based on the number of links to sites ...). However, other than that, I don't really use these sites for searching at this point ... more for surfing and discovery. I can add the bookmark lists of people I know (who share one or more of my interests) to my daily rotation, so to speak. Just taking delicious as an example: I can subscribe to an RSS feed for all the links that you post, or all the links that you post and tag with "programming" or whatever tags I'm interested in. It's a lot like StumbleUpon, but with more control to me ;) Well, honestly, I think all these social bookmarking sites have big impact as a factor in the google recipe (that is: people create links to sites, google’s recipe is based on the number of links to sites …). However, other than that, I don’t really use these sites for searching at this point … more for surfing and discovery. I can add the bookmark lists of people I know (who share one or more of my interests) to my daily rotation, so to speak.

Just taking delicious as an example: I can subscribe to an RSS feed for all the links that you post, or all the links that you post and tag with “programming” or whatever tags I’m interested in. It’s a lot like StumbleUpon, but with more control to me ;)

]]> By: eikonos http://huddledmasses.org/social-bookmarking-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-14839 eikonos Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:39:35 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/?p=250#comment-14839 I view this as a fad so my disinterest in social bookmarking is biased, but I just don't see the value. As I understand it, the purpose of social bookmarking is to filter through all the junk on the net by using actual people to rate what they find interesting. There's nothing inherently wrong with that approach except for extracting meaningful results from it. I took one look at delicious a few different times and just closed the browser window because it's an ugly, disorganized mess. Just like social bookmarking, the purpose of google and yahoo and the other search engines is also to filter the junk on the net, but by using robots and scripts instead of people. The pages are ranked by various criteria that mostly boil down to how many people find the pages interesting (via linking). The big difference between the social bookmarking and the search engines is that the search engines are automated and have better interfaces for searching. Is there anything social bookmarking provides that search engines don't besides a trendy way to do the same thing? I view this as a fad so my disinterest in social bookmarking is biased, but I just don’t see the value.

As I understand it, the purpose of social bookmarking is to filter through all the junk on the net by using actual people to rate what they find interesting. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that approach except for extracting meaningful results from it. I took one look at delicious a few different times and just closed the browser window because it’s an ugly, disorganized mess.
Just like social bookmarking, the purpose of google and yahoo and the other search engines is also to filter the junk on the net, but by using robots and scripts instead of people. The pages are ranked by various criteria that mostly boil down to how many people find the pages interesting (via linking).
The big difference between the social bookmarking and the search engines is that the search engines are automated and have better interfaces for searching.

Is there anything social bookmarking provides that search engines don’t besides a trendy way to do the same thing?

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