Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Support for RSS proved important so that users could subscribe to
distinct parts of the overall discussion, for example subscribe to specifi c
groups, users or hashtags, depending on their particular areas of
interest.
Overall our microblogging experiment was a success and provided us
with the confi dence to take the concept further. Status.net was critical in
that it provided us with the full set of features required to see the benefi ts
of using this type of technology, allowed us the ability to tweak it as our
specifi c organisational needs dictated and, importantly, provided an ease
of use that encouraged our users to embrace the software.
Tags.pfi zer.com - social bookmarking
The goal of this project was to explore the use of social bookmarking
within Pfi zer. By allowing people to share their bookmarks online, social
bookmarking services, such as Delicious [14], are turning the world
of bookmarking (browser favourites) upside down. Instead of storing
bookmarks on desktops, users store them online in a shared site. Not
only can users access their bookmarks anywhere, but also so can anyone
else. This allows colleagues to discover new sources of information by
looking at what others working in similar areas are bookmarking.
Furthermore, as users bookmark things that are important to their work
or their area of expertise their bookmark collection becomes a tacit
repository describing their interests. As a result social bookmarking
services can also enable social networking. By looking at bookmarks
saved by others, users can discover new colleagues who share their areas
of expertise/interest.
To evaluate this capability Scuttle [15], an open source social
bookmarking tool, was selected, judged by much the same criteria as
described above for Status.net. Scuttle provides similar capabilities to the
popular web service Delicious. In addition it supports the Delicious API,
which allows bookmarks to be imported from that service and, in
principle, allows any Delicious-compatible tools to work with it such as
browser toolbar extensions. Further, Scuttle also provides RSS support
with feeds automatically generated and fi ltered by user, tag and multitag/
user combination. Finally, the company Mitre had used Scuttle as the
codebase on which they developed Onomi, an inhouse social bookmarking
solution [16] giving us confi dence that Scuttle was robust, scalable and
could work in a business environment.
Initially, a development instance was installed, which was used during
the discovery phase for functionality evaluation and stability/load testing.
￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿
 
Search WWH ::




Custom Search