del.icio.us and H2O Playlist
Over the last month, I’ve discovered some interesting new tools that will deserve some more investigation once I get back home in August. The first is called del.icio.us and it is a social bookmarking tool. Social bookmarking is akin to sharing your bookmarks online. It appears to be a great way to bookmark sites and have them accessable to yourself, and others, from anywhere. I started a list here. There are some buttons that you can download into the toolbar of your browser and then easily throw up bookmarks onto your personal del.icio.us page.
The other tool is called H2O Playlists. This is a tool being tested by the Harvard Law school. You can register for free and establish playlists around scholarly topics. For example, here is a playlist of sites one person created under the heading of educational technology. Like with del.icio.us lists, you tag them with descriptors. You can then put the page into your RSS aggregator and receive notification when a site of interest has been added to the list. Pretty nifty and definitely worth a second look.
I just stumbled upon your blog and saw your post about a bookmarking service. Since you are interested in this field, I thought you might want to check out BlinkList a new personal and social bookmarking service we just launched.
We are a bit paranoid and scared now that yahoo! is already in the game but just too passionate to give up this early. We hope we have added a couple of cool new things (like our UI, ability to import bookmarks, keep them private, easily share them, etc.). However, we don’t know what cool is. That is up for our users to decide. Would love it if you checked out our site and let us know your thoughts. We are looking for new beta users.
Mike
Posted by Mike on 07/26 at 12:34 AM
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