Delicious Introduction

Although I had never used Delicious before this class, I think it's a really neat site. While it was hard to find just 10 bookmarks that really said more about me, I think I found 10 that at least said something about me. I was definitely interested to see the sites bookmarked by classmates and to see if there was any overlap between them and myself. Although the 10 sites I chose may not say everything about me, I chose 10 sites that I visit almost daily. I think Delicious would be a wonderful way to introduce students to each other and to social software. I found Delicious super easy to use and navigate, with virtually no previous social bookmarking experience. Delicious is also an easy way to introduce students to the use of "tagging", which is found on so many sites today. Delicious is a great way to introduce students to some of the social software that's available today. Delicious is fun to use and an easy way to discover new sites. Using Delicious may spark students' interest in other social software. I would definitely recommend the use of Delicious in other classes, especially as an introduction.

Delicious vs. Furl

Delicious and Furl are two social bookmarking sites. When browsing both of these sites I found them to be fairly similar in the services they provided however I preferred Delicious for a few reasons:

-I had better search results when I used Delicious. For example, on both sites I wanted to add BBCNews as one of my bookmarks. When I searched on Delicious the results was the BBCNews Front Page, or main news site. On Furl the search results were all individual news stories on the BBC page. Although when I searched for CNN on Furl the first result was the main CNN page, so perhaps it was just something with BBCNews?
-All the most popular bookmarks on the Furl main page were from the New York Times, on Delicious there was much more of a variety
-Furl offered users Furl Groups, on Delicious this was considered your network.
-Delicious allowed users to add tags to bookmarks and also search for bookmarks by specific tags. I couldn't find any tags on Furl.
-I liked the look of Delicious, it was more user-friendly than Furl and much easier to search
-Furl had advertising! I kept accidentally clicking on the "Add URL" Google Ad, it was distracting and frustrating

I will definitely continue to use Delicious for social bookmarking, as I was not very impressed with Furl.