May 10

Social bookmarking. What is it good for?

A background of my relationship with bookmarking: I remember the old days when I’d have a set of fancy rectangular bookmarks (something I got for myself from Barnes and Noble) lying on my desk at all times. I’ve always found it natural to organize myself while I’m working or researching with simple yet effective techniques. I used to color code the bookmarks with tags like “to show to clients”, “interesting event ideas”, or “vendor lists”, etc. Of course this was the “pre-web 2.0 era”. The era when we had to figure little productivity things out our self. Come web 2.0…