Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers by Bradley L. Jones, Chapter 13
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Quote: “The cost of implementation and the cost of failure are so low that we’re able to prototype and try lots and lots of things, very, very quickly.”
Learning Expectations:
I expect to learn how Joshua Schachter and the Web 2.0 coordinated with each other on being one of the most popular social bookmarking services on the internet through del.icio.us. I also expect to learn how the Web 2.0 revolutionized the way delicious works its magic with the social bookmarking service.
Review:
The 13th Chapter of the 20 Web 2.0 Influencers is about Joshua Schachter, the founder of del.icio.us or recently known as delicious, one of the most leading online social bookmarking service. It allows users to save, manage, share, and tag web pages from a centralized source. It improves the way people on the web discover, share, and remembers things on the internet. Delicious stores the bookmarks on the web to give people the flexibility on storing bookmarks. First of all, bookmarking is a way for people to remember the web sites that interests them. They place a bookmark on a web site for the computer to remember the URL of the site rather than the person remembering the usually long URL on their minds.
The back side of this is that a person can only save their bookmarks on their own personal computers. They cannot access the bookmark that they had saved on their PC at home in computers outside their houses. They would not be able to see the web sites that interest them at other places for others to also see. Sharing would be difficult because the bookmark is stored at home and it cannot be accessed in other personal computers.
That is where Delicious comes in the picture. Delicious.com stores the bookmarks online or in the internet giving the people the chance to share and view the web site that interests them. Another feature of delicious is it gives people the ability to share and send bookmark tags to others. Sharing this bookmark tag works both for the user and the owner of the website. It works for both because on the side of the users, they gain information and knowledge about things that interests them the most. They can give other people the chance to view an interesting web site that they might also have interest in. Spreading this information is a way for people to gain knowledge in the internet. While on the side of the website owner, the website that he/she owns is getting more popular and gains a lot of visits that it is becoming one of the most visited site. All he/she needs to do is to update and make things still interesting for the users to see and visit.
You might want to ask, what is the purpose of sharing bookmarks in the web? Well basically, it gives people the opportunity to share and allocate knowledge and information to other people in the whole world. The latest trends about the internet and things about it can be shared to other people in other places. An example for this is if a person founds out a new flashy font style that works very well for him in his work or job, he can bookmark the web site URL of the web site where he found the information. After bookmarking the web site URL with the use of delicious, he can then let other people all over the world find this great discovery of his. It can also be placed in the feature of delicious where it can be categorized as popular and recently bookmarked web site. People can find interesting things in the most popular category because they might also be interested on one of the things that interests them the most.
I think that a social bookmarking service in the internet or web is a really great way for people to share and allocate information and knowledge to other people from all over the world. It is really an effective and efficient way for people to share their interests to others. With just one click away, people can go to a web site that other people endorsed or shared. This is also a way for people to meet new friends because they can start a relationship through their interest.
Lessons Learned:
I have learned how Joshua Schachter and the Web 2.0 coordinated with each other to form the del.icio.us, one of the best social bookmarking services in the web. I have also learned that social bookmarking services can link people with each other through their interests and personal likes.
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