We??™ll also look
at the main features of a social bookmarking application and how they
work. Finally, we??™ll look at how Dogear, a social bookmarking tool for large
organizations, got its start.
Tip
The best way to learn about social bookmarking is to try it.
Sign up for Del.icio.us at https://secure.del.icio.us/register.
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APPENDIx A CASE STUDY
Social Bookmarking
162 TAGGING: PEOPLE-POWERED METADATA FOR THE SOCIAL WEB
Tagging Evolution:
From Muxway to Del.icio.us
Joshua Schachter, a programmer living in New York, created Del.icio.us. Or rather, Del.
icio.us evolved from a system Schachter developed for tracking??”and tagging??”his
thousands of bookmarks.
While working on Memepool, a group Weblog he started in 1998, Schachter would
collect interesting links from readers. After the bookmarks in his Web browser had
overflowed, he began keeping links in a text file. To make them easier to find, he
attached a keyword or two, like #wifi or #math, at the end of each URL.
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