2 New(ish) Online Bookmarking Tools
November 30th, 2004The first wave of social bookmarking tools have been implemented and are now part of daily use (well, they are in my world). The leaders IMO are del.icious, Furl, and Flickr. They all have 2 commonalities that make sense for todays online world: Open tagging systems and RSS feeds for those tagging systems. Two new(ish) similar tools that came across my aggregator this weekend are:
+ OpenBM - Very similar to del.icio.us, but they refer to the tags as tickets. Just use spaces in between keywords describing what you are bookmarking. Unfortunately, no RSS feeds.
+ CiteULike rocked my world when I first viewed it. The concept is, again, similar to del.icio.us, but it will be used more for scholars looking to collect and share articles that they see. From the site:
“CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise academic papers that they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself.
Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer. You can share you library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you. In turn, this can help you discover literature which is relevant to your field but you may not have known about.
When it comes to writing up your results in a paper, you can export your library to either BibTeX or Endnote to build it in to your bibliography.”
Neat eh? I’ve already subscribed to a few feeds that fit into my research on social networks. As a suggestion, there should be a way to intergrate this into library fee-based databases. Kind of what Jenny talks about when dealing with vendors and RSS. That stuff is way over my head.