Is Delicious at the Top of the Social Bookmarking Ladder?
Delicious is one of those applications that defies explanation in five sentences or less.
So, even though it has some very distinct advantages, delicious stands out as an anomaly.
Of course it can save all of your bookmarks in the same location, while you share yours with others and see what your friends are sharing, too.
Yeah, sure, it can do that.
But, the question has been posed.
What do you say we get the pundits a definitive answer? Organizing your stuff according to categories using your own words can be fun.
This is sometimes referred to as "folksonomy" a combination of the terms folks and taxonomy.
Delicious happens to be one of the most popular sites for bookmarking, and it's free.
And free is good.
It opens the field for one and all to enjoy the sweetness of Delicious.
Seriously though, the programs' application programming interface (API) allows you to upload to your information or download from the site.
This gives you a more complete data base for what you store.
Then you can divide them over the 'fresh', 'hotlist', and explore tags on the site, to help you with navigation over the additional categories you set.
All of these factors single out Delicious as a site that can be easily used and enjoyed by beginner's.
Now, for the downside.
The same facility that makes it easy to tag your selections, detracts from the possibility of making it more universally translatable.
Delicious has the same problems that the English language suffers at the hands of slang, jargon, technical, and now social media users.
The more professions that make use of any terminology, the wider and more diverse the meaning becomes.
So people from group "A" misunderstand the terms used by group "B" and communication becomes tenuous at best.
There's also the privacy issues that become more pervasive when username, email address and other info, have the possibility of being spread easily by discerning attributes connected to the source website.
So, there is that.
Because of the way the information is classified, it may even make what you're looking for hard to find if it's is not in mainstream demand.
Intermediate and expert users, on the other hand, might find these functions limiting.
Where specialized information is sought, the categories might not respond to more narrow search terms and be easily found.
Before forming any sort of opinion, however, I would like to suggest that you visit the site and find your own pluses and minuses.
So, even though it has some very distinct advantages, delicious stands out as an anomaly.
Of course it can save all of your bookmarks in the same location, while you share yours with others and see what your friends are sharing, too.
Yeah, sure, it can do that.
But, the question has been posed.
What do you say we get the pundits a definitive answer? Organizing your stuff according to categories using your own words can be fun.
This is sometimes referred to as "folksonomy" a combination of the terms folks and taxonomy.
Delicious happens to be one of the most popular sites for bookmarking, and it's free.
And free is good.
It opens the field for one and all to enjoy the sweetness of Delicious.
Seriously though, the programs' application programming interface (API) allows you to upload to your information or download from the site.
This gives you a more complete data base for what you store.
Then you can divide them over the 'fresh', 'hotlist', and explore tags on the site, to help you with navigation over the additional categories you set.
All of these factors single out Delicious as a site that can be easily used and enjoyed by beginner's.
Now, for the downside.
The same facility that makes it easy to tag your selections, detracts from the possibility of making it more universally translatable.
Delicious has the same problems that the English language suffers at the hands of slang, jargon, technical, and now social media users.
The more professions that make use of any terminology, the wider and more diverse the meaning becomes.
So people from group "A" misunderstand the terms used by group "B" and communication becomes tenuous at best.
There's also the privacy issues that become more pervasive when username, email address and other info, have the possibility of being spread easily by discerning attributes connected to the source website.
So, there is that.
Because of the way the information is classified, it may even make what you're looking for hard to find if it's is not in mainstream demand.
Intermediate and expert users, on the other hand, might find these functions limiting.
Where specialized information is sought, the categories might not respond to more narrow search terms and be easily found.
Before forming any sort of opinion, however, I would like to suggest that you visit the site and find your own pluses and minuses.
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