Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Crafting Web sites since 1999

I am a Web designer passionate about creating elegant, inspiring, and usable Web experiences that connect with an audience and fulfull business objectives.

The Del.icio.us Lesson

February 23, 2006

Design (Web) · Social Web

This comes from Joshua Porter.

The del.icio.us lesson

  • Per­sonal value pre­cedes net­work value
  • Peo­ple rarely do things for the “good of the network”
  • Del.icio.us, though pro­vid­ing very cool tag­ging fea­tures, is mostly about a sin­gle per­son remem­ber­ing items for later.

His third point res­onates with me because that is how I use del.icio.us. I think it points to the fact that Web 2.0 is really about help­ing indi­vid­u­als accom­plish their goals. Rec­om­men­da­tions are help­ful when they help me accom­plish what I want.

Joshua has some other inter­est­ing obser­va­tions or lessons on what we have learned so far about lever­ag­ing the Web.

1 Comment

  1. rob

    February 23rd, 2006

    I agree with that third one also. That’s how I use it. How­ever, I do use Flickr to share for the network.

    I guess I really don’t care if you know my book­marks, but I care if you see my photos!