Transcript: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

The text below is a transcript from the Common Craft Show video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English.

It's just too much. Did you know that there are over 15 billion web pages? To make sense of it all, we need to pluck out the best pages and save them for later.

We have choices. We could bookmark or add to favorites in our web browser. Nah, it quickly becomes messy. Plus, these bookmarks are tied to only one computer. This is the old way.

2 Friends, Tag Drafting and Web 2.0 Personalization

By leelefever on April 8, 2007 - 12:57pm.

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• blog
• friends
• Social Design
• socialbookmarking
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I've been inspired and impressed by a couple of my local Seattle friends who have, over the last year, become some of my favorite online community-focused bloggers.

Clay Shirky on Public Links- and me on Furl

By leelefever on July 13, 2004 - 12:27pm.

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• cooltools
• socialbookmarking
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Many-to-Many: Social link management

Clay provides a short rundown of some of the sites out there offering link management services. I recently tried one of these services "Furl" and I'm intrigued, but the jury is still out in terms of long-term adoption.

Here's why I like these services:

I often find myself reading a site and thinking- "I really want to come back to this, but I don't want to blog it, or add it to my bookmarks (which I never use anyway)." These services give you something to do with that link.