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Has Search Replaced Bookmarking?

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I was really sad to hear that Yahoo (who bought the company in 2005) may be ditching the service (more that here: Leaked Slide Shows Yahoo Is Killing Delicious & Other Web Apps and here: Yahoo Claims It's Not Killing Delicious ), but not all that surprised. Things are findable. Is Becoming My Default Search Engine For Research ).

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A Pinteresting Story

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Delicious was created by Joshua Schacter in 2003 as the notion of tagging (or labeling) content to make it findable by others begun to take hold. Delicious got acquired by Yahoo in 2005 and became the defacto destination to share one's bookmarks online.

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PLE

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The PLE project at Bolton University ( CETIS page description ) ( project page ) “This project was funded by the JISC Distributed eLearning Programme and ran from August 2005 to the end of July 2006.&# search & findability (14). Scott Wilson et al. The CETIS Personal Learning Environment Blog is still somewhat active.

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