{"id":18,"date":"2007-09-21T20:11:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T11:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/putting-a-face-on-social-bookmarking\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T20:27:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T11:27:29","slug":"putting-a-face-on-social-bookmarking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/putting-a-face-on-social-bookmarking\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting a Face on Social Bookmarking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sharedstuff.jpg\" title=\"Shared Stuff Profile\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sharedstuff.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Shared Stuff Profile\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>It seems that Google is jumping into the social bookmarking market:&#8221;Google Wants You To Share Stuff(TechCrunch)&#8221;:http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/09\/20\/google-wants-you-to-share-stuff\/ with their new service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/s2\/sharing\/stuff\" target=\"_blank\">Google Shared Stuff<\/a>.   Although there are already many <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\" title=\"Del.icio.us\" target=\"_blank\">good<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.gnolia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ma.gnolia\">social<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furl.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Furl\">bookmarking<\/a> sites out there, Google has finally put a face to it. They have included a profile section on your shared page, complete with photo, occupation, location, links, and even space for a self intro.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\" title=\"Facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> meets <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\" title=\"Del.icio.us\" target=\"_blank\">Del.icio.us<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Although Google has become a huge part of my own PLE:&#8221;My PLE(:I use Google Reader, Gmail, Google Documents, and iGoogle on a daily basis.)&#8221;:, I must say I am on the fence with this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What they have done well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The addition of the profile.  Simply adding a photo and a little personal information makes social bookmarking just a bit more social.  I am a very visual person, so being able to connect the face to the content is important to me.<\/li>\n<li>Integration.  Google is a core part of my PLE, so keeping things in the family appeals to me.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing options.  The Shared Stuff pop-up gives you the additional choices of sending the bookmark as an email or even posting it to other social bookmarking sites.<\/li>\n<li>Subscriptions and RSS.  Maybe this is a given, but I need to give them credit for it.  You can either subscribe by RSS (Google Reader, perhaps?), or add a widget to your iGoogle page.<\/li>\n<li>Article Preview.  There is an option to inclue an image of the page with your bookmark.  You can even cycle through images to choose the best one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What needs work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No option for importing bookmarks.  This will probably come with time, as Google has a track record of rolling things out a step at a time.  (Do they do this to avoid software bugs, or to allow users to gain confidence with the interface before &#8220;complicating&#8221; it?)<\/li>\n<li>No Tag Cloud, or Tag list.  Again, this may come with time.<\/li>\n<li> Article Preview.  You can add an image of the page, but it is saved as a very small image and does not link to a full size image.  (Are the Google servers running out of space?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just first impressions, and the service is still young, but until they enable bookmark importing I think I will hold off for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Google is jumping into the social bookmarking market:&#8221;Google Wants You To Share Stuff(TechCrunch)&#8221;:http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/09\/20\/google-wants-you-to-share-stuff\/ with their new service Google Shared Stuff. Although there are already many good social bookmarking sites out there, Google has finally put a face to it. 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