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Week 6 Folksonomies

I recently signed up for stumbleupon.com and for Delicious.com. I prefered stumbleupon.com because I thought it was easy to get started and I really liked the lay out. What is stumbleupon.com? Stumbleupon.com is a good place to pick your specific interest in the search bar and it will bring up links. When you click on a link and click like it will be saved in your profile as an interest. I like this #|website because its a good place to get some ideas for a blog!



What is Delicious.com? I signed up for delicious.com as well. It has a search bar to type in an interest you want to bring up information on and it pulls up many different videos and information on that subject.! Its a good way to explore things you are interested in and save those interest on a website just for you!



by: Jaden Anderson

Week 6 - Folksonomies

It provides a way to let the user vote up or down on a certain post submitted by someone, if they like it. The more //up// votes a submission receives, the more it will be displayed throughout the site, be moved to the front page of the site. I really like the stumble option!
 * #|Social bookmarking sites have made a huge impact on the way people send traffic to their blogs.**

The more thumbs up and reviews you get, the more traffic comes your way

 * Keywords**: at random

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Danielle Ralston

Tips For Getting Started with StumbleUpon
I have tried both Delicious and Stumble Upon. I chose Stumble Upon.

Okay, now lets get started with StumbleUpon from ground up.

What exactly is StumbleUpon?

StumbleUpon is a #|social bookmarking website that allows its users to experience the Internet in a different way. Instead of merely searching for keywords of interest on Google, users select a number of categories that are of interest to them, and then randomly “stumble” through websites and articles in these categories, which have been submitted by other SU users. If the Stumbler likes the article they give it a thumbs up by clicking the “Thumbs up” button, if they don’t they can thumb the article down. The basic here is, the more thumbs up a website or article gets, the more hits it will receive. Stumbleupon users can also review articles and share them with other friends on Stumble, which again can equal more #|traffic for your site. If you provide good quality content there is a group of Stumble users out there who will like and share it, and there might be chances that you will #|get traffic.

Edited by Christina Hart

=RULES OF ENGAGEMENT=



What is a folksonomy?


 * //folks·on·o·my//****/fōkˈsänəmē/**
 * Noun: ||  || # The activity of sorting information into categories derived from the consensus of the information users. ||   ||

Stumbleupon, delicious, pinterest, These are all examples of #|social bookmarking sites. I like something, I want to share it with you, and I hope you like it and share it with others. And just like any other social media, there are rules of etiquette, or as I call it “How to not be annoying.”

Here are some simple “do”s and “don’t”s for some common social #|bookmarking sites.

StumbleUpon:
 * DON’T send too many shares. StumbleUpon users will agree that one of the biggest reasons they will delete you from their friend’s list is because of too many shares. This faux pas can also make you look like a spammer.
 * DON’T repeat shares. Unless it is an article that has gained new value (such as an article about a virus from two or three months ago that is making a comeback) don’t repeat the share. It is annoying.
 * DO share varied sites and try to pay attention to other users’ preferences.
 * DO remember to “like” content shared by others.

Delicious:
 * DON’T be mean. (This is always a rule.)
 * DO tag all your saves.

Pinterest:
 * DO source your images properly. Link back to the original source of the image
 * DO write a full caption. This is a courtesy to your readers and an explanation for why they should click on the link.
 * DON’T trick users into following incorrect links. Some unscrupulous pinners embed incorrect links with their images.
 * DON’T blindly pin. If you are going to re-pin another users' pin, make sure it is a valid pin first. It might be an incorrect link which is annoying and possibly harmful to others’ computers.

As with any other social interaction, you have to play nice and be thoughtful. Never forget you are ith actual human beings.

Emerald Crafton



I have inserted the StumbleUpon toolbar and what each button does.

Honestly, I don't spend a lot of time just looking at webpages out of entertainment. I usually get on the internet to get on Facebook or look up something in particular so this StumbleUpon website does not interest me that much. :)

Posted by Cheryl Berger

__STUMBLE UPON THE STUMBLEUPON STUMBLE BUTTON__
The most interesting (and fun) feature of Stumbleupon.com is the stumble button. By merely pushing the button, you are delivered a photo (or perhaps some other content) which is randomly chosen to match your interests as you have listed them in your Stumbleupon account. For instance, I selected nature as one of my interests, and I was randomly shown a very cool photo of the entrance of a cave somewhere. The fun thing about it is that it is random, so you never know where you're going to end up and what you're going to see next. It's kind of like web-surfing blind, but your Stumbleupon profile limits the results to content related to your chosen fields of interest.

Edited by David Sweet

Del.icio.us, which was [|__acquired by Yahoo__] nearly two years ago, is a social bookmarking site. It has more than 3 million users and 100 million tagged items. Its number one use is tagging your own stuff, and its number two use is finding stuff that other people have tagged. Once you have created a del.icio.us account for yourself, you can start using it as your bookmarking service. Tagging a page is as simple as clicking on a link in your browser toolbar. The beauty of this system is that it is Web-based, so you can recover your bookmarks from anywhere where you have a web connection. Just using this to track content that you find valuable is by itself very cool. The social element comes in when you make your bookmarks public, so that other users can see them and follow the links.
 * This is what the web site “Search Engine Watch” Has to say about the differences between “StumbleUpon” & “del.icio.us”… **
 * del.icio.us **

StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon has about 4 million users, and more than 13 million sites have been "stumbled." While there are similarities between del.icio.us and StumbleUpon, the two sites do not see themselves as competitors. StumbleUpon founder Garret Camp said at SMX Social Media that StumbleUpon is really a "channel surfing" model for the web. StumbleUpon can provide interesting amounts of traffic because of this model. The way it works is that users indicate what types of tags they want to subscribe to. You can do this by visiting any tag page on StumbleUpon and clicking on the green “I like pages about [tagname”” link on the top right of the page. Once you have set up subscriptions, the “Stumble!” button on your browser toolbar will let you cruise through a random sampling of sites that have been tagged with your subscribed tag. This is the mechanism which produces the most traffic from StumbleUpon – people “channel surfing” the web. To read the whole article CLICK HERE

Edited by Shelly West

StumbleUpon it is a site that allows you to pick many things you’re interested in and at a click of a button it offers your new photos, quotes, games, ect that you may have never seen before based on your interest. After being “feed” the interesting new thing that you “stumbled upon” you are givin to option to share with your friends, comment on the piece, or post the item to one of your other social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, ect). “StumbleUpon” is pretty true to it’s name because after you click the button you have no idea what you’ll see so just like finding a diamond amongst the stones, you will stumble upon certain things you value more then others. Delicious is similar to that of “Delicious” however, it does not automatically give you information via your interest. Instead, it lets you pick your browsers or things you’re interested in such as your Facebook account and then links all the uploads that site held on your account and you can also see other people’s comments. On Delicious, you’re able to set certain settings to each link as to whether or not you want to see the post and or whether or not you want others to see the post. The links on Delicious are not set on “real time” they can upload anywhere within a 24 hour time from the moment the post was origianly selected or linked. On delicious the user can also build “stacks” a stack is a place where links can be organized an labeled to their catagories such as “family” or “media” and so on and so forth. This is similar to “StumbleUpon” whereas on both sites you are able to look up information saved via categories. Edited by Jeannie Snedegar

By clicking that little "Stumble" button, I have discovered so many great websites and even greater information that I would never have found by traditional searching methods. I tend to stumble in the humor area.

When you sign up for StumbleUpon, they ask you to define a few categories of interest to you. This helps them to direct you to web pages that have been put in those categories. When you press the button, a message is sent to the StumbleUpon database that most likely is just your User ID. The database looks up the categories that you chose when you signed up. From there, the application most likely chooses one of those categories randomly. Then the application goes through that category and finds a webpage in that category that is new to you, and directs your browser to that page. You can click "like" or "dislike" to help you stumble on to something relevant to what you like. I find this a lot easier to do than using Delicious.com.

Edited by Tom McCarty

=__Social Bookmarking - StumbleUpon vs. Delicious__=

The two sites we are instructed to check out have similar goals in mind. They are both there to help you keep track of your favorite websites and to help you Stumbleupon new ones based upon your interests or tags.

From what I can tell, StumbleUpon is based more on your personal interests you indicate when creating your account. StumbleUpon offers a button for your tool bar in your browser. This Stumble button will make suggestions of sites you might possibly be interested in. StumbleUpon is more of a random selection site. It keeps track of your interests and tries to offer other sites to you based on your interests and sites you already “like.” StumbleUpon has great information and a video regarding their site and its uses here.

Delicious on the other hand is geared more towards sites you actually choose as favorites. By tagging them, you organize the sites you like within a category or descriptive word of your choice. Delicious allows your links to be public. You can search all of the saved links on the site and hopefully come up with what you are looking for based on similar tags others have placed on certain sites. More information regarding Delicious can be found here. Be sure to click through the subtopics under the Tools link located on the left.

After spending some time with both services, I prefer StumbleUpon. Sometimes I can't quite find what I am looking for when I am searching a subject on the internet so I think if StumbleUpon is armed with my interests, it would be able to suggest sites that would lead me in the right direction ... closer to the information I am looking for!

//Edited By Luke Wier//

Folksonomy is defined as bookmarking or tagging a online resource. The resources are not tagged, just the bookmarks that refer to them. Bookmarking and tagging is done just by the person using the information. With the social tagging site StumbleUpon, when a button named Stumble is clicked the resource referenced is tagged and saved in the “air” somewhere, not on the users computer. This is case with Delicious also, which makes the sites different from the “favorite” or “bookmark” tabs on personal computers. Delicious requires the user to input site they want to view, StumbleUpon asks for user interests and then providing sites that might interest the user. Both sites are “social”, references to site common to other users have access to bookmarks of a user. In Delicious this is done by creating a “stack” and adding url’s to it.

Edited By Jan Bardwell

StumbleUpon vs Delicious??

This was a no brainer.. StumbleUpon is the preferred website by all members of my family because of the stumble button. All you do is press it and a world of information based on your interests opens and walla! My mom loved it! She is a crafter and gardener and does not like to surf, so this actually was an easy addition to her list of places she has added to her favorites. Thank you!

Delicious requires links that you have already found and then adds them to your site. Kind of like a large bookmark list, and by tagging these links you can add them to your site and the more you tag the bigger your stacks. Not really what I was looking for, as the less time I have to spend looking for links the happier I am and the easier it makes my research into whatever I am interested in for that day.

Posted by Mary Bond

Delicious's "stacks"
Once I started to read up on what a "stack" was, it was fairly self-explanatory. A stack is a collection of links that has a common theme. Basically, you can organize your links so that they are more visually appealing, and makes it easier to find what you want. Delicious has an "image fetcher" so that you can assign pictures to your links. To edit the image, click"Edit Stack" on the top right of the stack you want to change, and then click the link. Easy! Posted by Rachel Hooper

My time spent on Stumble Vs Delicious

I quickly picked up Stumbleupon, there was just a quick Join button/link with facebook. Select a few interests, then click stumble, and there you go. You were well on your way out into the world of random links that other people have submitted for the website. Anyone can submit links too, there are toolbars for it, so you can quickly like links you've found, or submit links of your own.

Delicious on the other hand, took me a little bit to figure out how to use, but once I got my links in, I got the ball rolling. It was a interesting concept, but I really didn't spend much time on it, as it wasn't quite as pleasing as Stumble upon.

So when it comes to my choice, Stumbleupon was the victor. Now I'm off to keep at that button.

Posted by Michael Dutra

Stumble Upon, Delicious, and Pinterest. Which is the best?
I am new to Stumble Upon and Delicious. I would definitely have to say, as a starter, Stumble Upon is much easier. You simply put in your information, click on all of your interest and press the "stumble" button. It throws lots of interesting images, games, and illusions. You can share, or like them as well. When it came to Delicious, it was more work. You have to import your bookmarks from your computer, which not all people bookmark so it sort of makes their site limited. Once you get started it's nice, but there is definitely a climb to get to the best part of their website. #|Pinterest is the all around best I would have to say. Their layout is genius, and beautiful and it's very simple to get started. It's similar to social media websites because you can "like" and "comment" on a picture. Or "Repin" it. I would have to say from most to least favorite of the three, it would be Pinterest, Delicious, and Stumble Upon. They are all great sites, just some more addicting than others, and easier to get started.

Posted By Katie Warren

// Getting Started with Delicious: // After you set up your account you can begin by searching for topics that you are interested in. In the site’s help section it gives you an overview of how to start your search including an option for advanced searches that will search through your network’s bookmarks. You also have the ability of importing your own bookmarks that you have saved in your browser. Once you import these, you can access your bookmarks from anywhere. In addition, you can tag your bookmarks so that you can organize them which make it easier to find. You can also view a list of the most popular bookmarks that are on the site as well as type in the URL of any website. // Getting Started with StumbleUpon // After you do the initial setup of your account, you are asked to select a wide range of topics that you are interested in. Once you have completed that, you click the “Stumble” button to begin. To Stumble means essentially to explore the websites or to Stumble onto the next result that matches your interests. Each time you click the button pages that match your interests are displayed. You can select Like or Dislike and the site will continually tailor its recommendations based on what you like.

Posted by Rebecca Smith

"**Content**" means links, text, graphics, images, audio, video, information or other materials. "**Delicious Content**" means all Content that AVOS selects and makes available through the Service, including any Content licensed from a third party, but excluding Member Content. "**Member Content**" means all Content that a Member posts, submits or transmits to be made available through the Service including links and the information associated with those links such as video, audio, pictures or text from the site at which the link points. "**Service Content**" means Member Content and Delicious Content. "**Stack**" means a grouped collection of bookmarks. You may remove your Member Content from the Service at any time by specifically marking it for deletion or terminating your Account. If you choose to remove your Member Content or to terminate your Account, your Member Content will be removed from our systems in a commercially reasonable amount time (e.g., time enough to allow our services to update), just remember they will retain an archived copy as required by law or for legitimate business purpose. I didn't really like this site very much. Stumbleupon is a much easier site to use in my opinion. I liked this page, so check it out and see if you like it as well. []
 * Here are Some Key Terms Related to Content on Delicious **

Edited by,

Chad Noice

= The other-other Social Bookmarking sites: =

We're all a-twitter about Tumblr and Delicious. You may think that's it? It's not, so let's see what else is out there:

 * Digg** works like other social bookmarking sites, but is specifically for news. You "Dig" or you "Bury" news stories, and collectively, filter out the poorer quality ones, while the really interesting, and relevant stories get brought to the surface (the front page). Digg takes streams from news organizations and purveyors.


 * Reddit** functions almost exactly like Digg, except that users post the news stories and links to them.


 * [|Chime.in]** is a place to post things, usually photos, in categories that become folksonomies. The idea is to share and discuss your favorite topics. You'll find many photos with quick captions that spark discussions. It's sort of like a facebook feed where someone posts a picture of something cool and all their friends comment on it— except with strangers. How fun!


 * [|Slashdot]** //News for Nerds, stuff that matters.// Slashdot is one of the oldest social bookmarking sites around. It was founded in 1997, and is a place for nerds and geeks to submit, comment on, and up or downvote news. Submissions are moderated. It isn't uncommon to see hundreds, or thousands of responses to a single news article. Articles may range from the latest NASA development, to some really intense internet security interests.


 * Diigo** is a newcomer that tries to mix all the others together. They call it "highlighting" instead of tagging. What is cool is that Diigo isn't website focused, it's based on content and the media of websites. Journals, papers, bibliographies, photos, files...these are all socially bookmarked. Instead of tagging that cool cooking website, you tag your favorite strawberry shortcake recipe and people looking specifically for strawberry shortcake recipes will be taken directly to it.
 * Dzone** is works like the rest, except that the content is computer code. The tags consist of programs, apps, applets, and code snippets. It's for software, developers, obviously, because it allows them to collaborate, share, and explore new ideas within the bounds of computer programming. It also neatly illustrates how anything can be socially bookmarked. What other niche social bookmarking sites/mediums are going to pop up in the future?

====Historically, one might argue that **USENET** was the beginning of all of this WEB 2.0 stuff. USENET required you to have a newsreader and then worked pretty much like a forum. USENET was classified into a bunch of categories— not just news, though certainly the main section was for news, and under each category subcategories and so forth. These categories were voted on and publicly created and enacted by the moderators, who viciously defended them against irrelevant or incoherent posts. People would then share their own things and comment. Some might argue, myself included, that these were the beginning of the "folksonomies." You may have never heard of USENET, and you may go "So what?" Well, the "fun fact" zone enters, when you learn that USENET existed before the internet did.====

//Edited by Gregory L. Dewar//

=//Stumbleupon vs Delicious//= //Stumbleupon:// Start your account with selecting at least 5 interests out of the categories they have available. After you choose your 5 selections, hit the stumble button. It will randomly generate a website relating to any of your 5 interests. You can like it, dislike it, block it, share it, Facebook it, comment about it, and see what others think of it.

//Delicious:// Start your account by adding bookmarks or importing your existing bookmarks. Tag them and label them by explaining what is the bookmarks about. Bundle your bookmarks in their own categories so that you can easily find your favorite web pages in certain categories. You can follow and be followed kind of like Twitter. If you would like to follow me on Delicious, go to @http://delicious.com/rochiemar/

Edited by Rochiemar Carson
Stumbleupon is in my opinion, just another place to look at stuff and flood the facebook and other social networks with stupid pictures, ok some are not so stupid but still, how many places do we need too go to find pictures and the like. I found this picture by stumbling, not sure where or how but it is amazing,yes. So i just goggled StumbleUpon and signed in, very easy and then you can see all the things other people find and post here as well.Pretty trippy stuff. Linda Todd

=Why is Online Bookmarking Useful?= > Bookmarking an interesting learning resource is an easy way to keep it readily accessible for use at some later point in time when you need it. > > Adding your own keywords, also called tags, to your bookmarks helps you to keep them organized, and quickly reminds you about their content. You can also add notes. > > You can share your favorites by using keywords.
 * 1) **Keep found things found:**
 * 1) **Access them easily again:**
 * 1) **Share them with others**:

Posted by: Danielle Howard

//**StumbleUpon/ Delicious. **// //** I have tried both of them. To me Delicious was harder to use. StumbleUpon was easy to use i like it more. I like how you can like the pagers and send them to facebook or to pinterest. Pinterest is another good bookmark site i would recommend to people. **// //** by christina vickers **// =

StumbleUpon and Delicious

[|Delicious:]
====Online Bookmarking is beneficial to me because I am often working from different locations with different computers, so using delicious to bookmark sites is great for me because I can access it through the internet and everything is there at my fingertips. I used it to bookmark several sites I wanted to use for resources in my reentry into the local community. It was very beneficial to me and gave me instant access to resources that I spent hours finding online. ====

[|StumbleUpon:]
====This site was easy to use and plain FUN! It saves so much time and gives you many options of web surfing sites that you are interested in based on your personal interests and needs. I also liked the link to Facebook as I use Facebook as a centralized location for everything that I do online. ====