del.icio.us
During the course we have been using a page called del.icio.us. It was present to us as a place where we could save all the links of the sites we were interested in. You just had to log in (after making an account) and start posting the links and saved them. But, more accurately, what is del.icio.us?
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than three million users and 100 million bookmarked URLs.
After posting the link, the site will require you some information about that link. The description of the site (the name of it), and what is more important, tags, also known as folksonomy. Each link will have its own tags in order to, afterwards, save them in specific bundles and have a quick entrance and search of the links. Del.icio.us also has a hotlist that on the home page, as well as a “popular” and “recent” link pages, which help to make the website a conveyor of internet memes and trends.
The use of this site is absolutely free and its development has grown hugely. If you want to save your links you just have to link them on del.icio.us and there you have them. Apart from that this site also offers the possibility to see other’s peoples links and the related links that may interest you when you post one. This is it, you could see, after saving a site, other sites that may interest you, that are similar to the one you have just posted. This occurs because of the folksonmy-tags tool, which as you can see is useful and quick.
Problems of too many bookmarks saved on your computer are solved: del.icio.us is there for us, giving a service that is quite useful because you can save your link and because you can find so many interesting pages as I have found myself. We have been using it for our lessons, but I’ll continue using it afterwards because it has so many good point and all the bookmarks I am interest in are there, saved and ready to be seen.
Bibliography:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us
(Last retrieved, 22nd June 2008, at 11:51)
