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Unit 11: Collaborating on Database Storage and Sharing Files

Notes

Notes BlinkList has a lightning fast search engine that will help you find the links that you
are looking for in the fraction of a second.
You can search through your links faster than you can search through Google. With BlinkList,
you can save your favorite articles and web pages and get back to them later even while you are
offline.

11.5.2 Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us is by far the most popular social bookmarking tool out there. It is not the most
powerful, though. I have kept my bookmarks on del.icio.us for some time now and the reason
I stay on is the community. The tools for sharing are not very powerful — you can add people to
your network and share links with them, and that’s about it. The effect of sharing can be great,
though, because of the size of the community.

On del.icio.us you can view your bookmarks as a tag list or a tag cloud. Tags can be sorted
alphabetically or by frequency.
Behind the Help link you find tips for advanced searching and navigation and some unofficial
tools that can make del.icio.us work for more demanding users. Among the advanced features
are network badges, link rolls, and tag rolls that help bloggers and webmasters to display their
del.icio.us activities on their own blogs and sites.
There are no very powerful tools for sorting or editing bookmarks. Paradoxically, this might be
a reason for del.icio.us’ popularity. It offers just what the average web surfer needs.

11.5.3 Ma.gnolia

Ma.gnolia has the sleekest design of all the social bookmarking services. And even though
beauty is generally considered to be skin deep, high quality web design with lots of white space
and easy navigation makes me happy. Never underestimate the value of beautiful design.
At Ma.gnolia there are tutorials, a FAQ and even a wiki for support, and if you send a mail to the
support team, you get an answer quickly, even at weekends.
With contacts, groups and discussions, there are plenty of ways to share bookmarks both within
and outside of Ma.gnolia.

You can search your bookmarks (or the bookmarks of all Ma.gnolia members) or browse them
as a tag list or a tag cloud. You can rate your bookmarks, which is convenient, and it is easy to
edit single bookmarks or all the bookmarks with a certain tag.

Furl and Ma.gnolia are the only bookmarking services that save a copy of the web pages you
bookmark. There is also a widget that lets you quickly add a link roll of your saved Ma.gnolia
bookmarks to your blog or web page.
But if you have many bookmarks with the same tag, it can be difficult to scroll through them in
Ma.gnolia. What it miss upon is a list view where each bookmark takes up no more than a
couple of lines and you can choose to view, say, 25, 50 or 75 bookmarks at a time.

11.5.4 Bluedot

Bluedot is the bookmarking tool for the MySpace crowd. The main focus is inviting friends and
sharing dots (your annotated bookmarks). You can import contacts from your AOL, Gmail,

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