A social bookmarking explanation your mom would understand

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A social bookmarking explanation your mom would understand

by Brad Linder Aug 7th 2007

If you're reading Download Squad, odds are you know all about Digg, Reddit, Netscape, Furl, and del.icio.us. But if you've ever had trouble explaining to your friends, relatives, and coworkers why it makes more sense to share news/store bookmarks online, this video is for you.

The folks at Common Craft have put together a series of videos explaining complex Web 2.0 using Web -1.0 tools (like paper). One of our favorites Common Craft's RSS in Plain English video.

[via Digital Inspiration]

Tags: del.icio.us, social bookmarking, SocialBookmarking

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ahoier said 3:16PM on 8-07-2007

When people ask what myspace or "social networking" are....it's simple:

Back in the late 90s, we had "Geocities", Tripod, etc. other "free web hosts" - for the most part myspace isn't anything really new...I think most people back in the day had atleast one geocities or "homestead" or other free web host somewhere on the net where they would write "posts" or updates on what they are doing, bios, their favorite movies, etc. (get it? lol...same thing as myspace).

The only thing myspace has that geocities didn't, is friends and comments!

Oh but then, some people created "web rings" and bravehost "guestbooks" and then we had friends and comments too :)

Blog Jones said 6:36PM on 8-07-2007

@ahoier: You didn't watch the video did you?

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