One of the things I'm looking at this term is how to make life easier for students. I've known about social bookmarking services like delicious.com, digg and stumbleupon for a while now but I'd never really taken the time to investigate them. Probably because I didn't have a need. I usually have at the very least my Macbook available to me when I'm on the road, but a few times this term I've been stuck without it and had all my very important (ha!) research on my browser here at home.
I started out using XMarks, which has elements on the client (your browser) and their server. I like the fact that they aren't married to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft or Apple. Unfortunately, I'm not fond of their UI, it feels cumbersome and difficult to use. When you're using their extension, it is a direct one-to-one sync - meaning that if you delete a bookmark on their server, it will also be deleted in your browser. It is still a beta product, that is still in testing, so perhaps it will improve in the future.
Currently, I'm using delicious.com as my go to social bookmarking site. It's uncomplicated and easy to set up hierarchies of files. It also seems to have a large user base, which is handy in a social service. It's currently my go to and you can see my links here. I have a lot of things for my Comp 2 class, and I'm hoping to put up some of the links we've been using in the perl scripting class as well.
I'll continue to update the blog as I look into other services, and as always I'm open to suggestions in comments.
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