Social Bookmarking: Diigo

Diigo is the third Social Bookmarking site that we learned about.  Diigo is another bookmarking site.  It is just as easy to bookmark with Diigo as it is to bookmark with Delicious.  However, on Diigo, you can highlight certain portions of a webpage about a topic instead of bookmarking a whole page.  I used this website the other day when I was writing a case brief for AP Government.  It was very helpful to just highlight the portions of the information that I needed.  This is definately one of the better bookmarking sites.  Click on the picture to visit Diigo.com!

Social Bookmarking: Symbaloo

Symbaloo is one form of Social Bookmarking. With Symbaloo, your bookmarks are in the form of little blocks.  Once you click on a block, you are transported to the website that you bookmarked.  I like Symbaloo, but there are some downsides to it.  For one, you have to go in and make a block personally, not just by bookmarking a page. I also don't really like that Symbaloo makes their own webmixes.  I don't like webmixes because they bring up a different page that has a whole bunch of different news, shopping, or weather blocks.  From there, you can click on the block to see more about it.

However, I have all the possible scholarships that I can earn saved on a different page of my symbaloo account for easy access. To get to symbaloo, click on the picture.

Social Bookmarking: Delicious

 

Delicious is one website used for social bookmarking. On Delicious, you can use the "add-on" buttons (as shown on the left) to bookmark any page with just one click of a button!  Once a page is bookmarked, you can tag it with different keywords to be able to find it later.  One neat thing about Delicious is that instead of using a search engine like google, you could use Delicious to do your searching.  However, instead of anything coming up, just other users bookmarks would show up.  This would be beneficial because you wouldn't have to sort through all the "bad" things; only the websites worth looking up would show up!  That is probably the thing I like the most about Delicious.  Click on the picture to take you to delicious.com!

Social Bookmarking

Today we learned about Social Bookmarking.  Social Bookmarking is the act of saving a webpage (just like regular bookmarking) but you can access your bookmarks from anywhere because they are on the internet!  For instance, if you were researching a topic for English at home, you could save your bookmarks to a social bookmarking site and continue working on  your project at school during your free time.  Plus, social bookmarking would also come in handy if your computer crashed -- if you saved your bookmarks to a website instead of your computer, you would still have all of them!  The really cool thing about Social Bookmarking is tagging.  Once you add a bookmark, you can tag key words that will help you remember what the bookmark was about later on. 
Some popular social bookmarking sites are:

• symbaloo
• delicious
• diigo

I have started my own social bookmarking page to keep track of the many different scholarships that I can apply for as a senior.  It is so much easier to just have them all in one place then having to worry about only working on my home computer.