Latest additions to the blog

I want to take your attention to some new additions to this blog.

* Awareness Watch Newsletter is a free monthly publication that highlights the latest resources and sites on the Internet pertaining to current awareness happenings, new and reviewed sources for research and search, knowledge discovery, data mining and related updates and alerts. The November issue futures the Data Mining and Web Data Extraction Resources. These resources will allow you to keep up to date and to monitor the latest happenings in all fields associated with data mining and web data extraction associated with discovering new data and knowledge available over the global Internet. http://www.awarenesswatch.com/

* 2 Collab beta: This Elsevier social bookmarking site can be used to connect, store, share and collaborate information with others, discover new research. It is free and easy to use. Just register and explore the world out there. http://www.2collab.com/home

* D-Lib Magazine: The Nov-Dec issue have number of articles on repositories initiatives. Under "Clips &Pointers" you will find useful information on upcoming conferences in 2008, selected papers, etc. This magazine can be a good source for you to read. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november07/11contents.html

* Smashing Magazine This magazine is really worth having a look at. It features useful and innovative information for designers and web-developers. The articles are helpful, not too technical, and are good summaries. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

* InfoVision Summit 17-18 December, 2007: Social Networks, Knowledge Discovery & Innovation. The summit will review the current state and chart out the future of the social networking industry. Relevant processes, technologies, norms, and societal needs of the new era will be outlined. http://www.infovision.org.in/2007/topic/index.html

* Information Online Conference, 4-6 Dec 2007. "Applying Web 2.0: Innovation, Impact and Implementation." http://www.online-information.co.uk/index.html

Social Bookmarking Sites Which Don’t Use NoFollow : Bookmarks and Search Engines

Social bookmarking allows web users to search, share, organize, and store the bookmarks of different web pages. This can be done publicly or privately (in private groups), or a combination of the two. People who are allowed to view the bookmarks can view them using a variety of different functions to sort and tag them....

.....NoFollow is a non-standard HTML attribute value which is used to police the outbound link value of user generated content, especially blog commenting. NoFollow is used to communicate with search engines to tell them that a link should not be used to pass on link juice, or “PageRank”.
The idea is that it will help reduce people who spam links, making sure that search engines get better results when keywords are searched, and many social bookmarking sites havee implemented this strategy.

Social Bookmarking Sites Which Don’t Use NoFollow

* Listible is a newer social bookmarking site

* Furl, one of the services offered by LookSmart

* Yahoo My Web 2.0 Beta is a social search engine

* Propeller is a hybrid of social bookmarking and social news sharing

* Flickr gives social bookmarking a different spin – the site is all about photos.

* Digg.com can get a little crazy and confusing, since it is open for anyone to post sites and leave comments.

* Technorati Faves is a great place to bookmark sites

* Slashdot is the original when it comes to social bookmarking sites

* Searchles is a social bookmarking oriented search engine with tagging, video upload, groups and voting.

How Search Engines Can Use Social Bookmarks: Monitoring social bookmarking services like Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and Ma.gnolia can help search engines in multiple ways....

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