DUE: WEDNESDAY April 29, MIDNIGHT -- a new page on your portfolio site, send email to wolber@usfca.edu when complete.
For this research assignment, work in teams of one or two. Put the results of this work, including links to your new accounts, and the answers to the questions below, on your portfolio with a page entitled 'Collaborative Systems'. We will begin this assignment in class, but you'll need to complete it outside of class.
1. Social Bookmarking.
- Register at Del.icio.us (if you're not already registered)
- Go to http://delicious.com/help/tools and download the firefox browser add-on. This will allow you to easily bookmark items.
- Use the bookmark button to bookmark your Google Sites portfolio URL. Tag your portfolio 'USF CS 107' exactly.
- Check that tag in delicious to see everyone else's page.
2. Photo sharing
Register at Flickr (if you're not already registered).Post and tag a picture you like to your flickr account.
3. Integrating your Identities
- Register at FriendFeed.
- Add some of your feeds to your account (your delicious and flickr, as well as any others).
- Add your classmates to your feed.
- Display your FriendFeed on a new 'Collaborative Systems' page on your portfolio.
4. Wikipedia- Add or modify an entry to wikipedia for a topic for which you are knowledgeable. Be careful and respectful.
- Add a link to your entry on your collaborative systems page.
Questions
Research the following questions and answer them on your 'Collaborative Systems' page.
- Delicious is useful even for an individual in a non-collaborative way. How?
- Think of a school or other team project you've been involved in. How could del.ic.ious help? How could FriendFeed help?
- How is Delicious search different from a Google search?
- Define folksonomy.
- Who has posted the most items about folksonomy on Delicious? What articles have been tagged 'folksonomy' the most? What other terms are co-tagged with folksonomy?
- What is a tag? What is a tag cloud?
- What is the most popular tag on flickr?
- Search for 'folksonomy' at flickr, and paste a couple of the pictures you find on to your research page (to help define folksonomy).
- Define the term 'geotagging'. How is geotagging used with Flickr?
- Explain FriendFeed-- how would you characterize it's usefulness?
- Wikipedia was compared to the Encyclopaedia Britannica in this article. What were the findings? Which was more accurate and by how much? What advantages does wikipedia have over Britannica?
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