Diigo Film Questions and Answers

1. Describe the 3 steps to recommend in the film to get started social bookmarking.
 
    I could not narrow it down to just three simple steps. First you need to go to the Diigo site register and install Diigolet. Once that has been established then locate a document of interest from the web. Now that you have found what you are looking for you can highlight the information of importance, add a comment about it, bookmark it and then display and share it. These bookmarks will be placed in your Library with Diigo.

2. Describe the Web 2.0, and how it differs from previous stages of the web.

   http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/archives/page9344.cfm

   This above link was one of the best ones to help me understand what exactly Web 2.0 is. With the information provided by this link and the activities that we have done so far in this class; the most important this about this is that this gives technology human compatible functions. Web 2.0 offers the use of technology in blogging, tagging, RSS, social bookmarking, and AJAX by keeping focus on the individual need of the reader and researchers. This allows users to create communities and customize their findings throughout the web. The article above had a great statement that describes the differences between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0. "This philosophy contrasts sharply with the old "Web 1.0" methodology, in which news was provided by a handful of large corporations, Web pages were static and rarely updated, and only the tech-savvy could contribute to the development of the World Wide Web."  

3. What is social bookmarking and what advantages does social bookmarking offer that traditional storage and retrieval of web sites does not?

       Social Bookmarking is a way for people who use the internet share, organize, store, search, and manage pieces of resources/information from online. It is also a way to locate others who have common interests and communicate findings and discussions. The advantages of social bookmarking is that fact that it can be personalized and you can focus on a particular part of a document rather than the entire piece. Not all of it may be of interest to you or to others. Traditional storage and retrieval was just that nothing else. Highlighting, tagging, and bookmarking was not used to personalize it. You had to take the document as a whole and that was it.