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Social Bookmarking: The Race to Be Famous or a Useful Tool?

Source: Mashable!

Aug 03, 2008

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I lept right into social bookmarking early on. At first is was not only a place to store your bookmarks, but to tag them for easier searching. The old browser based bookmarks took time to organize and sort. Tagging was a natural progression to me. Assigning keywords to links I needed to save made perfect sense.

The vision was then born that if I am centrally storing my bookmarks, why not share them with whomever wanted to watch. I am not sure who really cared what I bookmarked, but it seemed like a good plan.

I soon found that for each site I sent to the bookmarking service, I was told numerous other people, or maybe just a handful, had done the same. The quest to find others with similar interests through the same bookmarks was born. Now we sit where the term ‘delicious’ was made ‘aggressive’ as people bookmarked sites not to study and refer to them, but to be the top ranked. It has been the downfall of social bookmarking ever since.

Let me be blunt. Social bookmarking does have a few values in my eyes. Past that, it moves quickly into wasted time.

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Comments (7)

T Visio,

Aug 03, 2008

i confess the rush to claim digital real estate has its allure but wisdom trumps greed and the great unwashed will realize having 20,000 friends is more wishful thinking . A list is a List is a List.A Friend is a Friend indeed and that takes time and nurturing