LIBR 246-12: Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools (Fall 2008)

During my exercise this week I found a site, as many of you have also found, called socialmarker.

1. My three resources were:
Wikipedia's section about social bookmarking
An article about web2.0 and social search for health librarians
An news article on Cnet about Hakia which facilitates the gathering of like minded searchers.
2. Five people bookemarked the social search for health librarians, none for the Cnet news article, and 894 people have the Wikipedia saved.

Shawn's Blog

1.  Feed2J2

My fascination with RSS really stems from my interest in following the news for pertinent information I care about. That is why when I read about Alerts.com from ReadWriteWeb, I was intrigued. According to blogger, Sarah Perez (I’m starting to like her blogs a lot!), this allows you to configure alerts and have it arrive via SMS, voice, email, IM or your desktop via Adobe Air.

RSS is more than just a computer language. Netscape developed it in 1999. I find it ironic that first Netscape makes a giant step in web browser (web 1.0), it then designs the foundation for Web 2.0. Where is Netscape today

It is something that really makes the web come alive. It looks the static web, and helped create the whole Web 2.0 which in turn gave us Library 2.0

I’ve used RSS feeds before through Google Reader and I thought it was great. But this week, I saw how cool the RSS technology really is. I had not realized its potential to really make a website or blog better. I learned that RSS feeds can be embedded into any websites so that only pertinent information we care about will be displayed.

1. My blog’s RSS feed.