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Yet another list of del.icio.us add ons…via Smart Mobs

See here:
tagging.pagina.nl

Some that caught my eye that I haven’t seen before:

del.icio.us/username
Just enter the word “new” in the URL before your username to see a slightly different interface.

del.icio.us tag search
Enter up to 7 tags and limit to a username

Automate Excel - Backup Del.icio.us with Excel
self explanatory

This one via Micropersuation

Tagwhere
Browse user-defined tags for items at a location…watch out yellow pages!

Listed in The RSS NewsMaster’s Toolkit

Here is the entry:

Active Web Reader Customizer

Customize and distribute your own RSS reader.

http://www.deskshare.com/awrc.aspx

“With the Active Web Reader Customizer you can now distribute your own RSS reader that includes your feeds and web pages. The user then simply downloads your custom RSS reader, preloaded with your RSS feeds, increasing your website visibility.”

Great tool to introduce to your workplace if people are new to RSS, minimal fuss and learning.

It seems this tool also monitors webpages without feeds.

Bloglines also pre-populates accounts with the “Tell a friend” feature.

Wiki’s are a great idea as a reference hub…it’s time to go through our personal bookmarks on Newsmastering and add them to this wonderful site,
The RSS NewsMaster’s Toolkit…where’s the RSS feeds!
Here’s the unveiling post.

This brings me to an aspect of another post on Common Craft. The idea is that a blog is predominately a flow tool - timeliness, current, has a shelf life…and a wiki is a stock tool - organised as an arhive or reference hub.

I totally agree with this post, it gives great insight and perspective to these social tools which sometimes overlap and blur their line in their capabilities.
I guess I’ve been using my bookmark tool as a reference hub, just like a wiki, but a wiki has a more suitable presentation and of course it has communal editing.

It’s made me think about whether social bookmark tools are stock or flow…it seems they are both. I track other bookmark tags for timely information and save them as tags which in turn are viewed by others for their current needs. But by saving these bookmarks, I’m archiving for future reference…I guess it depends what type of sites you bookmark…if they are sites with a shelf life (flow) or sites for reference (stock).

I guess the general workflow is to continuously bookmark information, then after amassing enough information for a subject guide you can unload all this information to a wiki - in a linear mode with topics and subtopics. The information should already be organised in your bookmark folders, so all you have to do is export them to a wiki. It would be a great idea to be able to export from Bookmark Manager to Wiki.

What a great idea from Robin Good My Printer-Based, Personal Daily Magazine Here is what it’s all about:

“…what if I could have a software/appliance that allowed me to check mark (or uncheck) any items that I did want to have in my daily magazine, and at the end of the day, printed out a nice, properly bound edition of my own interests, maybe with a good table of contents, and category dividers thrown in as a plus?”

Phil Bradley’s Blog has a post on Jybe… a toolbar that allows a remote visitor to watch you browse - great for remote learning, even it’s within the same geographic area.

Another handy tool for information literacy which is gaining popularity is screencasting…formerly known as a video tour. See tag in del.icio.us…also here. It seems the most talked about tool for screencasting is Camtasia…here’s more.

Lastly MasterNewsmedia points to Moon-edit, a free tool that allows collaborative text editing in real time…cool!
A social community’s point of view.

From their website:

“Every co-author can edit the shared document at any time, from any place, and at the same time! There’s no need to send files via FTP or to compare documents when multiple users need to make changes to it independently….Every user has their own color. Every cursor movement and text changes are simultaneously visible on the screen by all users…”