[Stephan Whelan]

Originally Posted by trux

Just to add more information to these services - the websites allow you to build personal bookmark list that are then available online. They are of a special interest if you are a frequent traveler, and/or working often on computers you do not own.

Social Bookmarking means that you can share links with the community of similarly oriented people, and that you can see what others tell about the pages you bookmark. Personally I think that this feature is of just very little interest for the forum, because we already are in a community, and I doubt you can find a bigger freediving community anywhere on the Social Bookmarking websites or elsewhere on the web.

Furl offers a much more interesting feature - not only you can store your bookmarks online, but you can archive the pages or entire websites, so that you can access the original content even if the page expires or changes, or the server goes offline. Although also not too interesting for this forum (AFAIK, posts are being kept in the archive indefinitely), it may be very useful otherwise - websites pop up and die often faster than one expect, so keeping a personal copy of interesting information may prove priceless. It happened to me more than once that I bookmarked a website but when needed it, it was gone. Although there is always the possibility to dig the old content at www.archive.org I have the feeling that their servers become saturated and slow, and that they often miss just the pages you are looking for.

trux,

Interestingly we can also track incoming links to forum posts and threads now and even in the day the software has been installed we've had 12 links created to Forum posts/threads. I'm certainly going to be encouraging people to use social bookmarking as it's a good way of promoting the sport outside our little community. DB may seem like the biggest community out there but we're a fraction of the size of some of the larger players - social bookmarking will help us promote the message of interesting threads, news items and articles (the last two coming later today) in the bigger blogosphere (as it's called).