Exercise#5

This exercise has given me the opportunity to explore delicious, the most popular social bookmarking site. Now I have a much better understanding of how the bookmarking sites work, how the contents can be saved, organized and shared through a centralized source, that can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection. The only bookmarking I knew all my life prior to this class, was the browser based one, which can be accessed only from the particular computer it is saved into. But with the increase in online activities, with the heavy load of information available through the internet, it has become absolutely necessary to store them centrally, by adding self explanatory tags to them so that they can be easily retrievable whenever the user is willing to access the information. Delicious and other social media sites have brought a 'portable solution' (Farkas, 2007) to information sharing through bookmarking, and this assignment has successfully introduced that portable solution to me.