Social Bookmarking; Facebook - Motorola DROID Manual

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method of sharing sites you like. In the purest form, Delicious,
one of the leading social bookmarking services (www.delicious.com), allows you to save
a bookmark with a quick note and tags to organize the bookmark by category. You can
also network with other users to see their bookmarks and measure the relative
popularity of bookmarks by seeing how many other users have marked a particular site.
Instead of using a dedicated, standalone Delicious-based app, you typically use the
service through add-ons to your browser. When an app such as Bookmarking for
Delicious is installed, it adds an option from within your web browser to add bookmarks
to your Delicious account. To add bookmarks, make sure Bookmarking for Delicious is
installed and then follow these steps:
1. Tap Menu.
2. Tap More.
3. Tap Share page.
4. Choose Delicious.
For more information on the built-in Browser app, please refer to Chapter 11, "Surfing
the Web."
Digg (http://digg.com) is another popular social bookmarking site. Unlike Delicious,
Digg also adds a threaded comment discussion. Digg emphasizes quantity and focuses
on showing the most popular links of the moment as a method of crowd-sourced news.
Users can digg or bury items to see what stories float to the top. Similar services include
Reddit and Slashdot. Sites like these can attract huge crowds of visitors to a business's
site, so it makes good business sense for blogs that can handle high levels of traffic to
leverage social bookmarking sites to entice people to visit.
Android apps are available for all three social bookmarking services. You just need to
decide how involved you need to be from your phone. For example, do you need to
comment and submit bookmarks, or do you just want to see what the currently trending
articles are? Do you want a full app or just a widget?

Facebook

The Facebook social network started out as a simple virtual yearbook for college
students, but it has since morphed into one of the most popular websites in the world.
At the time of this book's publication, it's even more popular than Google search in
terms of the sheer volume of page views on the site.
Facebook intends for people to use their actual names instead of pseudonyms. Users
are also intended to share information with small to large circles of acquaintances.
However, Facebook has been facing increasing scrutiny over its privacy policies and
confusing security settings. When you use Facebook, the wisest course of action is to
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