social-bookmarking on SWiK

Social Bookmarking Buttons Plugin | Plugins | Joomla Extensions

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:12:50 -0700

bookmarker :: Firefox Add-ons

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:00:31 -0700

bookmarker :: Firefox Add-ons

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:04:59 -0700

CMS Toolbox: 80+ Open Source Content Management Systems

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:26:37 -0700

80 popular CMSs due to reader requests. For the sake of brevity, we haven't delved too deeply into CMSs for personal blogging or wikis (although we recommend Wordpress and Mediawiki, respectively).

del.icio.us/help/firefox/extensionnew

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:24:21 -0700

NEW Firefox-Extension for del.icio.us

Trailfire

Thu, 10 May 2007 10:45:31 -0700

Find what you want on the web in an entirely new way. Follow trails of web pages and discover new ideas, hot topics, reviews..

SourceForge.net: Scuttle

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:02:07 -0800

Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

SourceForge.net: Scuttle

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:56:39 -0800

Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

del.icio.us extension for Firefox

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:58:45 -0800

How to use PlugIM to Promote your Internet Marketing Project

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:26:35 -0700

A couple of ideas on how to promote an internet marketing project of any kind using PlugIM

Is this the picture of a dying service?

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:09:16 -0700

del.icio.us appears to be doing fine to me :/

I don’t know what Michael Arrington is smoking when he says quote they’ve tanked completely

By my internal counters, del.icio.us has well over 300k users who actively post bookmarks. This is different from Digg or really any of the social sites out there besides the picture and myspace sites – these are people who are actively contributing to the del.icio.us resource with quality stuff.

Digg is pretty ephemeral by comparison, with Diggs occupying a perhaps similar volume of traffic thanks to the easy button, but the tagging and focus on new content means that Digg traffic lives and dies quickly, which may account for why Digg has eclipsed del.icio.us in traffic.

However look at the contributor numbers, people have recently claimed that Digg only has a thousand or far fewer active bookmarkers, and my internal numbers from my feeds back that up. LiveMarks has scrolled 60k digg bookmarks, and 4 million unique del.icio.us links over the past year or so.

What really seems to have improved at del.icio.us since Yahoo bought them is something that Michael Arrington likely would have a hard time selling as copy: their performance has improved drastically from a near cataclysm of broken pages, timeouts and database failures that were striking del.icio.us shortly before they were sold.

The feature improvements have indeed been scarse and the design is still unfortunate, but it’s still the best public bookmarking service out there by far (of course the new boz is the first and best and only truly private bookmarking service :P)

Sometimes features and visible improvements take a long time to brew, such as before Flickr released their Gamma update. There is a ton of work that needs to be done on del.icio.us, but I wouldn’t count Yahoo as having killed the goose yet.

PS: The comscore high Arrington refers to is likely bumped artificially high by press regarding the Yahoo aquisition, not droves of users suddenly signing up and using the service.

Scuttle

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:23:45 -0700

open-source software for social bookmarking service

de.lirio.us

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:31:58 -0700

http://de.lirio.us/rubric

Filangy

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:31:58 -0700

http://www.filangy.com/

MarkaBoo :: better bookmarks for everyone

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:06:53 -0700

MarkaBoo :: better bookmarks for everyone

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:47:49 -0700

Social Bookmarking Swiki

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:44:23 -0700

For searching articles about social bookmarks or related

OMG OMG A social bookmarking site!

Sat, 06 May 2006 16:09:10 -0700

Coming soon! It’ll change your very existence! Social bookmarking will never be the same. FUNGOW.

You can’t get in yet, but you can see some screenies of it on Mashable, Pete Cashmore has the hookup.

There’s not even an email address where you can volunteer to be spammed, all you can do is admire their elephantmanesque logo.

(via LiveMarks)

Social Bookmarking flat this year?

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:42:14 -0800

Looking at the graphs for del.icio.us and its biggest followers, as I’ve just posted below, it’s interesting to note that growth for this year is fairly static.

I would have thought that Yahoo would be providing more support for del.icio.us, wasn’t one of the big reasons to go to a big web company to help take social bookmarking to the mainstream?

Digg however is still growing, thanks possibly in part to Kevin Rose’s rush to get features out the door like their much improved comment system, and possibly part of growing to fill the unrealized potential size of tech enthusiast market, digg continues to be first with tech news over everyone else, more now than ever.

The next stage of the social bookmarking game has got to be making services that deliver more value to the mainstream web user and refinining the anti-spam and social heuristics. (LiveMarks unfortunately saw a lot of spam today through del.icio.us user sexkitten], who posted seven and a half thousand spam bookmarks in the space of ten hours.

I have to note however that Alexa has been most unkind to SWiK lately, completely unjustifiably, we’ve just had our best week ever according to our internal stats but Alexa shows us down, which is kind of irritating.

Our user base isn’t well tuned for Alexa, having a third of the users not running Windows and fewer than a third running IE, but it’s still annoying to see our graph go down when we are actually attracting quite a large audience.

Batt.le Bookm.ark.s

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:46:14 -0800

Social Bookmarking – It’s not just putting periods in awkward places.

Social Bookmarking Services were created by Joshua Schachter.

They evolved.

They rebelled.

There are many copies.

And they have a plan… (sell ads)

del.icio.us is still the king though, no one even comes close (unless you count digg, which is then the #1 social bookmarking site).

diigo

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:28:57 -0800

ListMixer - Throwaway Bookmarks

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:54:38 -0800

anonymous social bookmarks - don't read the homepage, it will just confuse you what the heck it is

coComment

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:29:38 -0800

coComment is a social software for following comments, like bookmarking comments

RawSugar

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:26:08 -0800

Social bookmark service that usese hierachical tags(clusters)

Simpy

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:24:57 -0800

Shadows

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:21:13 -0800

Social bookmark community where each bookmark has it’s own page. Features: tags, groups, discuss

Netvouz

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:09:17 -0800

Social bookmark manager that uses tags and categories. It’s special point maybe it’s batch edit, move bookmarks and import that extracts tags from the folder, title and desription

Alexadex

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:16:42 -0800

I saw on the Alexa blog a pointer to this really interesting site where sites are bought and sold on their alexa rating, it’s called Alexadex.

I really like the idea, and I’ve thought about doing the same thing for social bookmarking activity. What I like about it is that markets have a really good predictive ability, and I think it would be interesting to see if a social bookmarking market could outperform news/blog sites in finding new and interesting stuff.

Of course on the other hand, it’s possible that blogs make the news, not the other way around. It may be impossible to predict what will be popular ahead of time because what is popular depends purely on the whims of whatever the boing boing editor decides to put on their blog. In any case it would be interesting to find out.

Unfortunately what’s missing from Alexadex is the ability to get a good sense of what sites are up and comers, and I get a feeling that the share prices are all very volatile. It would be interesting though if Alexadex published an API in turn.

Social Bookmarking Vs Spam

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:44:15 -0800

Social bookmarking is currently in a high growth pattern. I notice it all the time running LiveMarks, the rate of social bookmarking is increasing every single day.

The more people flock to something, the bigger target it is for abuse. The more people turn to del.icio.us to find useful bookmarks, or digg.com to read the latest news, the more tempting targets those services become for spammers and vandals.

As Clay Shirky has noted, “Social software is stuff that gets spammed.” Perhaps as an addendum to that aphorism it should be noted that successful social services are those that can resist spam successfully.

The spamming foes of social software are just starting to take shape. Witness a new service called ‘TagExplosion’, TagExplosion describes itself:

“[TagExplosion] helps get your program, blog, advertisement or website on the several “Social Bookmarking” sites so you can get on 100,000’s of computers, worldwide. This will help drive more traffic to your website by utilizing the “word-of-mouth” aspect of Social Bookmarking.

Services like these are bound to multiply and exploit every weakness in social bookmarking’s defenses against spam and general social filters such as Digg’s front-page promotion mechanism or del.icio.us’s popularity or aggregation filters.

At the moment, the defenses of the social bookmarking sites are fairly weak. Currently del.icio.us has certain filters that destroy obvious spammers, prevent excessive tagging from aggregating onto every tag page, and prune the front page’s new bookmarks list. But del.icio.us’ only solid defense against automated attack is their signup captcha. As we’ve seen with BlogSpot, a signup captcha is only worth what it costs a spammer to pay an Indian or Filipino company to fill in.

del.icio.us may soon have to contend with spammers that post automatically or through peer to peer schemes such as TagExplosion or hide their spam like steganographers, continuously studying filters to evade and manipulate them.

Digg has similar problems, and is currently using similar techniques with similar vulnerabilities. As Digg is a more socially oriented site, it also uses more socially oriented solutions to fight off the spam problem. Users are encouraged not to post duplicate stories by having to first wade through other users’ submissions, and once posted other users quickly respond and post complaintative comments against problematic links. Users of Digg also help fend off spam by reporting what is wrong to the administrators and to the other users watching the live queue.

As frequent Digg users are well aware, Digg has had a tough battle in the recent times fighting vandalism. So far however, only a tiny minority vandalize the site, spammers are still thankfully somewhat in the dark as to how they might abuse the system.

This is all very reminiscent of the rise of search engines, Compare a search on Altavista for viagra to the same search on Google. Search engines that failed, failed in large part because spammers eventually reverse engineered the algorithms they used to determine relevance and simply rearranged their pages to suit those algorithms. The top result for viagra: ‘t-e-x-a-s-poker.com’ on altavista is the end result of the eventual failure of the first generation algorithms.

It’s likely that to survive and remain useful, social services will have to follow in this mold and emulate Google by switching their filters to factors that are more expensive and more complicated to engineer, such as third party references, longevity, references from known trusted sources, and patterns of human created content. Or they may be forced to become less social, such as with Wikipedia’s recent policies. Even then, it’s certain to be an ongoing battle.

jots

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:29:39 -0800

yet another social bookmarking site that uses tagging.