To bad we don't have an internet forum. This topic doesn't really fit in any of the other areas hence i'm making it off topic so here goes.
Of course who hasn't heard of these two sites. I think everyone. I decided to do a little reading last night into the concept. There was really no good explanation for it other than "Social bookmarking". From what i read i thought i glean from the pretty broad explanation its a place where you can keep your bookmarks and access them from anywhere it it allows you to rank whether you think a link is useful or not.
I thought cool i can keep my bookmarks online that i can access from anywhere and just add a simple social aspect to it to see what might be good and what might not be. I also assumed there would be some firefox addin...maybe a sidebar or something like that that you could manage your bookmarks. This is something i really want My bookmarks lately have kind of turned into a mess and being able to manage them online with something with good organization would make my job easier (maybe even tagging of bookmarks). Anyways i decided to subscribe to digg today and give it a test drive. So far i'm unimpressed. What i thought would be a good organization tool for bookmarks is not, unless i'm using it incorrectly. You can of course rate a page you like by "digging it" and then you can add that link to your favorites to your bookmarks but there is no way to organize anything. No folders/labels or anything. There is not even tagging of bookmarks which would be nice. Sure they have a category but no tagging concept exists.
I don't know if all the other "social bookmarking" type pages are similar but so far i just can't see how it would be THAT useful. I'm not going to go across the web every day and just rank stuff. It would be a waste of my time. I guess there are a few circumstances where i can see where it would be usefull
1) Want to get the latest/best news for the day.
2) Have some friends that have the same interest (say running for example) and any page they rank as good you want to check out because its probably something you want to read.
Maybe i'm not understanding the concept or maybe i'm just not using the site correctly. I was hoping this would be a huge productivity tool for me in bookmark organization but i have not found it to be that yet.
So i guess thats my question....is my understanding of the way this works correct? if it is, i can't see why its so popular. Seems similar to google page rank. Second, is there something that can do what i'm wanting...a really good online organization tool for your bookmarks. Ive used google bookmarks....while ok is really not that exciting.
Ncage
Of course who hasn't heard of these two sites. I think everyone. I decided to do a little reading last night into the concept. There was really no good explanation for it other than "Social bookmarking". From what i read i thought i glean from the pretty broad explanation its a place where you can keep your bookmarks and access them from anywhere it it allows you to rank whether you think a link is useful or not.
I thought cool i can keep my bookmarks online that i can access from anywhere and just add a simple social aspect to it to see what might be good and what might not be. I also assumed there would be some firefox addin...maybe a sidebar or something like that that you could manage your bookmarks. This is something i really want My bookmarks lately have kind of turned into a mess and being able to manage them online with something with good organization would make my job easier (maybe even tagging of bookmarks). Anyways i decided to subscribe to digg today and give it a test drive. So far i'm unimpressed. What i thought would be a good organization tool for bookmarks is not, unless i'm using it incorrectly. You can of course rate a page you like by "digging it" and then you can add that link to your favorites to your bookmarks but there is no way to organize anything. No folders/labels or anything. There is not even tagging of bookmarks which would be nice. Sure they have a category but no tagging concept exists.
I don't know if all the other "social bookmarking" type pages are similar but so far i just can't see how it would be THAT useful. I'm not going to go across the web every day and just rank stuff. It would be a waste of my time. I guess there are a few circumstances where i can see where it would be usefull
1) Want to get the latest/best news for the day.
2) Have some friends that have the same interest (say running for example) and any page they rank as good you want to check out because its probably something you want to read.
Maybe i'm not understanding the concept or maybe i'm just not using the site correctly. I was hoping this would be a huge productivity tool for me in bookmark organization but i have not found it to be that yet.
So i guess thats my question....is my understanding of the way this works correct? if it is, i can't see why its so popular. Seems similar to google page rank. Second, is there something that can do what i'm wanting...a really good online organization tool for your bookmarks. Ive used google bookmarks....while ok is really not that exciting.
Ncage