Delicious is Yummy

I really like Delicious. The day after I dove into it I came to school and told a co-worker I discovered a whole new side of the Internet. I then got a funny look so I had to show her. I found so many great websites by using Delicious I started emailed them out to people left and right. I sat at my computer for over two hours one night just looking at websites that others had tagged. I then realized why they call it social bookmarking as well, I could have saved time explaining why I was emailing websites to individuals. If they would have also had a Delicious account I would not have had to send so many emails. Another reason I really like Delicious is because I often forget to add a website to my favorites list mostly because I'm lazy. Most of the websites I visit on a regular basis are in my scroll down menu at the top of my browser. However, if you get a virus on you computer and have to have it cleaned out, all of those websites are gone, which I recently learned the hard way. Has I known about Delicious earlier I would have all those websites saved in my account.

Diigo and Delicious

Social bookmarking websites such as Diigo or Delicious can be thought of as a Favorites button on a computer, except they are online so one can access them from any computer. These sites can be used to search, organize, share and manage websites. Each bookmarked website can be given one or more "tags" to organize the sites into categories of information.
For example an elementary teacher might want to look up helpful math and English websites. Once found the teacher can then tag the websites which in essence puts the sites into electronic piles based on the materials tags.
Some advantages to social bookmarking include people tagging the websites based on what they found usefully instead of a machine. This leaves room for organization based on one's way of thinking and not what technology deemed important. A social bookmarking site will also record how many times a website has been bookmarked which shows if many or only a few people found a site useful.
However, there are a few disadvantages as well including the idea of no common vocabulary. An example of this might be two individuals that are both looking for websites about skateboarding. One may tag all their sites as "boarding" while the other "skateboarding" because they use different tags the two would not realize to check out each other's bookmarks. In addition, as I found, if one makes a spelling error or uses different punctuation it makes the tag different from other similar tags.
Diigo and Delicious are both essentially the same however, Diigo has one feature that Delicious currently does not. In Diigo one can highlight materials of importance on web pages to aid in the organization of materials.