So, I tagged my own blog in del.icio.us. Although I’m still not sure if I think del.icio.us is going to have any long term use, it is fun to fiddle around with. I don’t particularly like the interface though….it seems clunky, cold and unfriendly. And, it doesn’t seem to give users the same control & fun that other social networking sites such as facebook allow. For instance, I can’t change the way my page looks or anything. Users these days want that control. You can see that in how both facebook & myspace have had to modify their settings to compete with each other. I guess I’ll save my major comentary on all that until we get to the week that covers social networking sites, but I’ve got LOTS to say!
I also had some fun subscribing to tags (library2.0 and web2.0) as well as seeing what Kathy had tagged. I don’t really get how the networks work yet though. Maybe I’m thinking like a facebook user though…who knows! Anyway, I’ll keep using del.icio.us and see how it works!
Kathy Lussier said,
February 7, 2008 at 6:11 am
Yes, the del.icio.us interface has always been a turn-off for me too, although it has improved a lot since the first time I used it. It used to just have one big tag cloud on the home page.
I think the network feature is mostly used when you tend to like the same sites as another user and want to follow the links he/she is bookmarking. Jessamyn West talked a little about it today, and she said she has other librarian friends on del.icio.us who usually bookmark interesting stuff, so she made them part of her network.
I suppose we could have shared our del.icio.us links by adding each other to our networks, but I found the semls20 tag worked just as well.