tagging and delicoius

Delicious is a website that could be considered a wiki because people add to each other's sites, sign in and can add or edit or comment on lots of things. It is called a social bookmarking site because you put up on your home page lots of websites that you can comment on or tag. Each person can add hundreds of bookmarks to their page and add lots of tags. The tags allow each person to search these sites and see which sites other people like and what they think of them. The tagging means that each person can add their viwe and if they have seen these sites before and what they think of them. This encourages other people to go to these sites if thier friends like them and they can chat on and about these websites. That is how it has become a social networking site as well.

This is a video explaining about social bookmarking



Tagging on flickr has moved on a lot. Photos and videos can be geotagged. This, as I mentioned in my last blog, is if a camera has a gps tracking device, then the photos can be tagged on a map. manual tagging is also easy. This allows people to search and easily group photos and videos by the place or what is in them. this allows people to find pictures of themselves or a place that they know well. They can then tag something and each photo builds up a history and it has lots of information about itself.

Flickr is a photo and video sharing website. Flickr was developed by Ludicorp in Canada. They launched Flickr in February 2004. It was originally a game called The Game Neverending,a massive multiplayer game for all the world. Users load their photos on the site and make them available to all other users (if privacy settings allow this).Similarly to Facebook, photos can be 'tagged', meaning that they are specifically labelled with a word, or a specific preson. So when another person searches the word, the photo tagged with that word will come up.In this way, hundreds of photos can be grouped into a category about that place or person. Photos can have lots and lots of tags so different people can easily share them. Now a new form of tagging has appeared, 'geotag'. This is, if a camera has GPS, then the photo will appear on a map.By this tagging, people can comment on each photo and each photo has a history of people who were there, or who remember something else about it. After 5 years in operation, Flickr claims to display more than 3 billion images. Each one of them has masses of information so the website holds so much information.


This video explains how it works.

Facebook privacy

The number 1 rule about social networking is to only put something on the web if you don't mind it being seen by others. By others I mean almost anyone at all. Be prepared to have what you put on the web twisted and used in other contexts. Only write something on anyone else's blog if you won't regret it or you wouldn't mind the whole world from seeing it on your own blog. On facebook it is possible to limit what certain people can see by using friend lists and changing your privacy settings. Facebook changed it's terms of service and this produced uproar. I think that it is ok for facebook to change its terms of service but only if people are warned about it and left in control. This could avoid the huge uproar at the change.You should check your privacy settings and make sure that you are fine with them.
Facebook shouldn't be so dominating in not letting you delete your account and letting go of your information. I think that facebook is ok if used responsibly. Then it can be good fun.
The most important thing on your facebook page is your privacy page. This is to help with your safety for the future. The school, emoployers, teachers, family and friends have facebook and it is possible for them to access your information even if you do not want them to. DFacebook is not secure and some people either do not know this or do not care. If you are interviewing for a job and your employer sees a picture of you making a fool of yourself at a party, then they might not employ you. Having bad privacy could ruin your life or destroy friendships, So MAKE SURE THEY ARE AS YOU WANT THEM.