InfoScope

We’ve had a lot of fun, but it’s time for me to move on…

…but seriously,  after checking out Connotea I’ve realized that not only can I tag links and view others’ tags, but I can combine this feature with bibliographic information resulting in a form of “social reference management”.   Another very cool feature in Connotea (as Lund et al point out) is the ability to add comments about a link that everyone can see, which produces a conversational thread as different users add their comments.   I was also surprised to see that on the front page of Connotea the most popular bookmarks were almost all social software and library related.   Although CiteULike offers similar tools, the community seems to be more scientific.  And if part of the point of social bookmarking is to share links, then choosing your community is important.    Unfortunately, not being a Firefox 2.0 user (yet), I can’t use Zotero, which also looks intriguing. 

…so that’s why when it’s time to get serious about managing my bookmarks I’ll be choosing Connotea.  Sorry del.icio.us.

 As an interesting aside:  for those of you currently job-hunting, Zotero is  looking for a “technology evangelist”.