Tagging, clipping, and saving are all great ways to save a group of select webpages. However, what good is all that great information if you cannot effectively showcase your findings in a concise and organized structure? Tagtooga is an amazing tool, a mashup of bookmarkings, wikis, and open dir. It’s power comes at the cost of a learning curve, you really need to play with it before it’s meaning becomes clear. Tags are cool – they let you organise what you bookmark in loose hierarchies. Collections are also useful as they provide an extra level of meaningful grouping.

Tags are single-word descriptors — this is how social bookmark systems categorize content so that you and other users can find it. Tagging was a natural progression to me. Assigning keywords to links I needed to save made perfect sense. Tag clouds take care of agility, timeliness and relevancy for you, since real people tag sites based on what’s in their mind at the time. And while your site may get tagged in some quirky ways, quirks are what make the human brain much less prone to manipulation than an algorithm.

Tagging

Tagging is a democratic, intuitive process: anyone can tag a site in any way they see fit and there are no agreed-upon conventions. Ordinary people – not search engines or librarians – decide how sites will be classified.

SiteMeter Crashing Popular Blogs!

A number of large blogs are reporting that their sites are crashing when viewed in Internet Explorer, and are attributing the problem to code from the web metrics service SiteMeter.

SiteMeter provides third-party tracking of web site traffic through a snippet of code placed on each page of the web site or blog.

So do not use SiteMeter you could crash your blog!

UPDATE

SiteMeter has fixed the problem – see details here.

Social bookmarking is rapidly becoming an easier way of finding more useful information than search engines provide. The downfall of current search engines (Google included) is that you have marketing companies spending big money to be the top ranked sites for keywords that you are looking for online. Social bookmarking is great. It helps sites gain popularity via positive feedback from users, who bookmark it on a special social bookmarking site. Social bookmarking is a way to save and share bookmarks on the web. You can tag a web page that you find interesting and share it with other people.

Social bookmarking is a pretty crowded field on the Web, with delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us) taking the greatest amount of mindshare, although I have no idea if they’re still holding the majority of the market. The increased use of bookmarking tool aggregators like ShareThis show that the gaggle of bookmarking sites is a little confusing for everyone.

Social bookmarking is not just the passive action of saving links to websites you have visited. Many social bookmarking services and some specialised websites have tools to assist you to add your social bookmarking links to your website, blog or wiki etc and vice versa. Social bookmarking is based on the idea of a sites popularity being decided by the visitors of that site. Make sure you are adding important sites that you use every day to these sites, as well as your own personal websites.

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences.

Also you can use StumbeUpon to bookmark your blog and get extra visitors.

Ask your friends to stumble your blog as well. With 5 stumble you can get an extra 15.000 visitors/month + a better position in the search engines.

The alliance started in 2006.

Yahoo will sell advertising on its auction site and also will use eBay’s Paypal service to handle payments.

The deal comes as investors are increasingly concerned that eBay’s highly profitable shopping service is being undercut as consumers increasingly use search engines to find Web sites selling products they are interested in. Moreover, there is a rise in free sites that match buyers and sellers, such as Craigslist, Google Base, and Yahoo’s own free auction service.

Now there are rumors about the problems between Yahoo and Ebay and apparently the alliance will day.