Was there life before del.icio.us? If so, it seems so long ago. Please come back soon.

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Rumsfeld’s resignation broke an internal record for the time it takes a story to go from being submitted to landing on the home page. It took about 3 minutes for users to digg the story enough for it to make it to the front door. Google News had it 20 minutes later. Lesson: “People can […]

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I had a great time this morning doing a talk for the “Tech Tuesdays: Talking with Techies” webcast series, hosted by the wonderful Education Institute and the equally wonderful Darlene Fichter. It was great to see a strong turnout for the topic and a lot of interest in what metadata for non-librarians was all about. […]

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I just received a beta account with a new social bookmarking site, Ma.gnolia. I’m awaiting import of my del.icio.us bookmarks, which they make dead simple for anyone to do using the del.icio.us api. Once imported, I’ll have a better feel for whether it has enough to it to make me jump ship. It’s definitely […]

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Well, it was only a matter of time. Official news that Yahoo! is the proud new owner of del.icio.us. Yahoo!, don’t forget, already owns Flickr!, which makes them a strong contender in the world of social software. I suspect Google and Microsoft aren’t shaking going to shake in their boots over the acquisition, but the […]

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We (Kenton, James and I) did a reprise of one of our Netspeed presentations on social bookmarking for the AACL (Alberta Association of College Librarians) yesterday afternoon. I’ve posted a PDF version (8 mb) of the presentation — The Delectable Delights of Social Bookmarking: Tagging, Folksonomies and the del.icio.us Nature of Social Bookmarking. I’m still […]

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I’m sure many of you are as enthralled with Digg as I am. I had heard some reports that Digg was now topping Slashdot in terms of readership (not sure if thats actually the case yet though) and I certainly had the sense that stories were very often getting “dug” before they were getting “dotted.” […]

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Always curious about the inner workings of big corporations, I was enthused to hear of IBM’s growing interest in social software. It was actually Gene Smith’s del.icio.ius feed that pointed me to a reporting on Joho the Blog of IBM’s inner workings where we find that social bookmarking, blogging and similar social services are finding […]

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Doh! Caught sleeping. I didn’t realize that del.icio.us made it so easy to embed your bookmarks into a web page or the sidebar of your blog. I was poking through the del.iicio.us blog looking for some stats for an upcoming presentation and found a link to their page on Linkrolls, which actually provides you with […]

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