Bookmarking

=LIS 5260 - Bookmarking=

Delicious
@http://www.delicious.com

Delicious is Yahoo's Web 2.0 bookmarking application. The premise is that as you add bookmarks and tag them that collections will evolve basically on their own. Your collections are shareable and they put alot stock in their ability to quantify what bookmarks are the most popular and what sites are the most viewed by tag names. Another nice aspect is that it is free.

Diigo
@http://www.diigo.com

Diigo is my favorite of the bookmarking applications. I like the fact that in addition to plain vanilla bookmarking you can 'collect' a wide variety of web resources and organize and share them with others. You can highlight, take notes, add sticky notes directly linked to the pages in question. You can include images, audio and video in your collections also. By using the browser tools on any of your appliances, be it computer or phone you can always stay connected with your bookmark/ web information collection. I don't know how many times in the past I wished I'd already been using Diigo because I lost some piece of information on the web. An efficient and useful tool.

Evernote
@http://www.evernote.com

The philosophy of Evernote is Remember Everything. By downloading their app to your computer or phone you can capture, keep and organize anything. Take notes, highlight web pages, snap photos and it is uploaded to the Evernote servers. You can organize it or let the program organize it for you making everything easily searchable. Definitely a close second to Diigo in my opinion.

Google Bookmarks
@http://www.google.com/bookmarks/

What's handy about Google bookmarks is that if you have any type of google account you're already signed up for google bookmarks. It allows you to use your history or the Google toolbar to save and organize bookmarks for later reference. You can share your lists and or read other's shared lists. The bookmarks are easily labelled and searchable. One thing I didn't like was that it was strictly lists of links, no extras like highlighting or sticky notes or multimedia saving. Very basic bookmarking, and I would think for some it would be perfect if they weren't in the market for all the bells and whistles.