12.01.06
To bookmark or not?
I was having an email discussion with a colleague around social bookmarking tools vs the Firefox extension, Foxmarks. He like the extension because it organizes in folders. I have always been a list kinda person, but del.icio.us has changed the way I look at saving resources. Anyway, here is some of the conversation:
– check out the extension Foxmarks
(me) how is it better than social bookmarking?
– I had difficulty getting del.icio.us to organize into folders like I’m used to. I’m really into “tabbed browsing” and like having things where I can open a whole set of tabs all at once.
(me)I can see where a “folder kinda guy” might find social bookmarking a bit different. I use tagging to take care of the organization portion. What I really like is the ability to share the bookmarks with others, the cross-referencing through tags, the piping of bookmarks to my webpages etc.
The newest thing is to annotate and save – “we aren’t researching in Kansas anymore” — http://www.diigo.com/
There are so many new ways to control your resources – here are about 55 of them from Webloghits.com .
