This week we looked at managing information through social bookmarking. In particular looking at sites such as Reddit, Tumblr and Diigo. We also discussed Tag Cloud which was a new topic to me.
Social bookmarking was a very interesting concept. I was already aware of bookmarking and I myself would use the tool often but I was not aware of al the different ways of using it. Using bookmaking increases the traffic to a website which will improve page ranking. Google use the information from bookmaking when they are determining the ranking of a link on their search results. . Social bookmarking makes it easier for other users to locate and use the
resources, this is also known as tagging. Many large scale sites and small scale utilise this system as a method of
sorting all of the information that comes through in their traffic.While this makes for a very useful feature and saves a user a lot of time, many
a times users can falsely tag their content as something trending at the time
for the sake of more views. If a page is seen to be using too much spam the page can be removed from Google.
This lead on to us learning about Diigo. Diigo is a personal tool that can be used to organise, manage and keep track of information they have found online and want
to be able to refer back to. This site is one of the best for social bookmaking with features like uploading screenshots of a page, highlighting areas of interest and having the ability to sign in on any device so you can search and access your information from anywhere.
This week in our group meeting we made a decision on how our app would look and together we started to put it together. It was hard to figure out which would be the easiest, user friendly layout but we are happy with the decision we have made.
The class also generated a word cloud using PollEV on the sites we use for social bookmarking.
Tag Cloud is a stylized way of visually representing occurances of words used to describe tags. Examples include Wordle and Tag crowd
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