Some great finds this week. Much more on the cool sites and articles than any really big news. Also some great reports about the status of the internet. ENJOY! Read the rest of this entry »

Hey guys I have been very busy this week and also have been compiling a Resources section to this website.  So much of what I’ve been putting together will grow over time and really isn’t things you can put into a post.  The resources have been broken down to include sizeable sections.  So far I’ve created the following sections: Read the rest of this entry »

Intro 

In a simple explanation del.icio.us is a bookmarking service that uses tags instead of folders to organize bookmarks.  Because del.icio.us is an online service it is not restricted to a physical computer.  The only thing that you need is a web browser.  Many sites across the Internet support multiple bookmarking options and del.icio.us is one of the most widespread.  Instead of trying to explain del.icio.us any further here is a really good short intro that explains del.icio.us and even gives a pretty good educational related example.  Read the rest of this entry »

Some really great finds and news this week.  It’s amazing how I don’t try it but every week it comes out to just about 30 stories/websites/links. 

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What is the difference between the following two pictures?

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According to eBizMBA, StumbleUpon is the 5th largest social bookmarking site.   It is one of the most well known and many people would say the most fun to use social bookmarking sites.  What makes StumbleUpon so much fun is the StumbleUpon toolbar.  What is so amazing about this toolbar is the ability to truly surf the web.  Once installed you can set your preferences and interest and surf the web getting recommendations based on your interest.  If your interested in “Higher Education” and “Internet Marketing” then you will be more likely to get these sorts of sites shown to you.  By rating the sites that you like and don’t like using the toolbars “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” options the system learns your preferences and narrows down the sites that it sends you too. 

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I just finished reading The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed the other night.  If you’re not a baseball fan then you can skip the rest of this post without offending me.  Besides being a book about something that I love, this book was written by a Wofford alum!  All the more reason to reason to read it!  The author J.C. Bradbury runs an interesting blog, Sabernomics, where he writes all sorts of interesting baseball articles. Sometimes they are specifically Atlanta Braves related articles, but they run the gamut from free agent player values to, and most recently, the steroid situation.

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I hate to start a weekly link wrap-up this way, but I feel it’s my duty. If you haven’t already heard about the tragedy Northern Illinois University then Andrew Careaga over at Higher Ed Marketing has a good wrap with links to other bloggers reactions. My prayers go out to them.

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I know I know it’s been almost a month and a half since the end of 2007 and I have had this report sitting around for over a month, but better late than never right? 

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Introduction 

Writing a review of Digg pertaining to Higher Education is much more difficult than writing one for MySpace or Facebook.  Digg is the first of the true Social Bookmarking sites that I’ve covered and is by far the largest, Top 30 Social Bookmarking Sites.  Digg has an Alexa ranking of 150 and reaches 0.64% of internet users.  According to Compete, Digg has just under 20 million monthly visitors.  Just looking at the numbers Digg has absolutely incredible potential to expose any business to millions of Internet users. 

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