I want a social networking site for academics where we can upload journal articles, book chapters, whatever source material we want, tag them appropriately, and create knowledge/school constellations depending on what we’re currently reading and working
Discussion of flaws and potential solutions to using social bookmarking sites (from del.icio.us to digg) as folks monetize, abuse, trick, and tweak them: no uniform tagging conventions, flat tag structures (non-relational), overly-generalized tags (catego
Zoho's got something new: Notebook. If you've used Microsoft's OneNote, you'll grok it pretty quickly. It's a content editing system that lets you create multiple sheets in one document; great for big, complex projects.
Online reference managers are extraordinary productivity tools, but it would be a mistake to take this as their primary interest for the academic community. As it is often the case for social software services, online reference managers are becoming power
Clean. Bold. Graphic. Big buttons with clear icons give you instant access to a good variety of search engines, including specialized bookmarking, blog, buzz, and social networking sites.
Tag Descriptions allow you to describe your tags for yourself and others visiting your bookmarks...simply go to your tag page. From this page you should see a link called "create tag description". Clicking this link pops up the interface for creating a Ta
Annotea is a W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development project that provides a framework for rich communication about Web pages through shared RDF metadata. An RDF model of bookmark classification permits multiple classification systems to be related to each
Neatly organized on a pleasingly uncluttered page, find podcasts by topic with ease. Many academic, as well as popular, categories. Society and Culture. Science and Medicine. Religion and Spirituality. Government. Politics. Education. Arts. Technology.
Blogging has a name, but I haven’t found a name for this programming-meets-blogging I like to do...Here’s a start: “blogramming.” The blogosphere has its a-list — so does the, um, blogrammosphere (ouch!)...we are all hooked on the thrill of hatc
It might seem redundant to have semantic tagging when you can basically find anything you can think of with simple searches in Google or Yahoo. But del.icio.us seems to be most surprising when you're trying to find things that relate to what you're intere
OpenID is a lightweight, decentralized identity system that has been gaining prominence. I expect this upcoming year to be a big year for OpenID -- and not just because of the Google trend chart with the recent uptake in search query share.
Insipid is a Delicious clone written in Perl and licensed under the GPL. The theme used was created by Thom Baxter. The source code to the project is hosted with Savannah. Features * Support for both the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases * Priva
“Are you my friend? Yes or no?” This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. Participants must select who on the system they deem to be ‘Friends.’ Their choice is publicly displayed for all to see and becomes
A Joomla! based module that gives a visual appeal to your site, allows visitors to click/be redirected to a social bookmarking site...to attract more traffic to your site. Download free version, and if you're willing, please leave a review/rating of Socio
To get a handle on the state of the art [AI created an annotated list of 40 sites]. I think we should see within the foreseeable future a standard set of functionalities - submitting, ranking, organizing, searching, commentating, collaborating, annotatin
Del.icio.us tags aren’t like meta keyword tags because of the Del.icio.us Lesson. Meta keyword tags provide no personal value whatsoever. All of their value is social. They’re for aggregation engines to find and tell other people about. In other words
- Access your bookmarks from anywhere Online - Import all your existing bookmarks - Thumbnail images of all your online bookmarks - Design your own Personal Homepage - Discover New Bookmarks - You can use Tags and/or Categories - Set Tags, Cate
What Does an Insider Think About Social Bookmarking and Blogging? November 14th, 2006 at 11:18 am by Tony Well, I asked one — Muhammad Saleem is one of the hired guns at Netscape, and previously an elite Digger. He also blogs at themulife.com. I sat d
...we contemplate whether the social bookmarking space is a zero-sum game. Because of self-selection, having multiple social news sites may ultimately be a good thing...When you have more targeted sites you have better discussions, and more socializing be
This article looks at the evolving crop of social bookmarking tools, their functionality and examples of use. The goal is to help nonprofits understand the value of using social bookmarking tools and to determine which social bookmarking tool would best s
Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages. Automatic capture of citation information from web pages. Playlist-like library organization, including saved searches & tags. Integration with WordPress and MS Word. Interface in many languages.
almost all these sites have the same basic features: browser bookmarklets for one-click link saving, RSS feeds, tags and sharing capability. Beyond those basic features is where the services begin to differ. What follows is our list of the best places