Asynchronous+Social+Bookmarking+and+Sharing


 * **__del.icio.us__**
 * **__ProtoPage__**
 * **__[|Library Thing]__**
 * Clipmarks
 * Notefish
 * Blinklist

Are you ever frustrated that you can't find that link? It's on your computer at home? You can't remember which favorites folder you put it in? Your friend told you about this great new site for x,y,z but you can't remember the name and they're not available right now for you to find it in a crunch? You need Social Bookmarking and Sharing! These sites help to make your bookmarking virtual, taggable, and visible (the parts you want, anyway) to people in your network (those using the same tool).

**del.icio.us** Del.icio.us allows you to save your favorite links with descriptions and tags. You can mark the links as private or public. If they are marked public, others in your network may search in your tags to find sites of interest. Tags are searchable in your own links, in your network, or by what has been most popular in delicous overall.

Putting a description is helpful not just for yourself in remembering why you may've saved a link, but for others who may find it through the network and want to know a little more before actually clicking on the link. In some cases, you can select a description right from the page itself without having to author something original.

When you want to revisit the link later, you can search by tag (category) - for example "education" was the tag for links to the right in my delicious site. I could use a more specific search - "math" for example if I wanted to whittle it down more specifically.

**ProtoPage**

Protopage is your own personal page, which you can access from any computer or mobile phone. Use it to read your own selection of news and blogs, keep bookmarks, to-do lists, sticky notes, and much more. You can select from many news sources to read (or listen - podcasts - which are also available) or to set up RSS feed, widgets (such as weather forecasts), and create sticky notes with to-do lists or other reminders. There is a mobile option so that you can access your page from most mobile phones.

There are tabs for bookmarks to your other sites like facebook, ebay, etc. and to create notes which can be color coded and adjusted for font size.

Library Thing allows one to keep track of the books in their lives and network with fellow readers. The site does not buy, lend, or sell books, but rather lets one set up ways in which to catalog books. A reader can sign into Library Thing and create lists of books you own, books you have read, books you would like to read, etc. The site also connects you with others who have read the same books as you. There is a discussion forum for your thoughts about books and also recommendation lists. "LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share." This would be an innovative way for students to keep a book log and connect with students who are interested in the same genres and authors. A teacher could also use this site to keep track of her personal library of student books.
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**Clipmarks** Clipmarks is also a cataloging and networking site, but instead of connecting through books, people connect by what they find interesting while surfing the web. When you enter Clipmarks you are able to check out what others have found intersting on the web. If you notice that you often check out a particular person's clips, you can make that person one of your guides. Of course you can create your own clips as well. What is great about Clipmarks is that you can "clip" the text, image, or video to only the part that you want, which is much better than simply posting a link to a whole webpage. Now you can pinpoint exactly what you want others to see. You can save these clips on Clipmarks, post them directly to your blog, e-mail them to friends, or print them out. There are also widgets for MySpace and Facebook. This would be agreat tool for teachers to have the exact video clip or image available during a lesson. It is right at your fingertips and students would have less wait time getting to the part of the video you want them to see.

**Notefish** Notefish is a way to organize one's research on the web. Simply create a page on Notefish and save any webpage content, color, annotate, and organize your notes, and then you can share your research with friends. This would be a fabulous tool for students to use with any research project that utilizes the web. It would help them keep track of their research and organize it online. Then they could also share their research of they were working on a group project. Students could collaborate their research.

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