Finders Keepers

Delicious is a "social bookmarking" service. Delicious offers a banner which lets you know about many of the features and you can click "learn more" to find more information about the service. I listened to the tutorial and learned that Delicious offers Fresh Bookmarks, which is the most recent bookmarked entries in the delicious community and twitter conversations. Hotlist, which displays the most popular bookmarks. And Explore Tags, which allows you to see the most popular tags that people have applied to their bookmarks.

Google Reader helps you find and keep track of interesting stuff on the web. You can subscribe to your favorite websites, and keep up with what's popular. Reader keeps track of what you've read, so you only see unread items when you come back...super neato!:) I like the fact that Google Reader will act as a bookmark of sorts. I like the fact that it will place a border around an item that I have read. As a teacher, I think it is important to be able to subscribe to favorite sites and blogs. These new sites and blogs can be added information when teaching a lesson or simply a way to learn more about a certain subject for personal knowledge. Google Reader also offer keyboard sho rtcuts to save you time by helping you quickly explore your reading list. Google Reader allows you to export your subscriptions from other various popular feed readers such as myYahoo, Google iGoogle, NetVibes, Bloglines, Newsgator Online, Rojo, Safari bookmarks, and Firefox live bookmarks.

Library Thing is the world's largest book club. It will catalog your books from Amazon, the Library of Congress and 690 other world libraries. Library Thing allows you to find people with simialr tastes and find new books to read. It also lets you read free early reviewer books from publishers and authors. You may enter 200 books for free, as many as you like for $10 a year or $25 for life. This would be a great tool for teachers because it will allow you to keep all your books in one place and have them at your access whenever needed. I love to read and I like the idea of being connected to people who like to read what I do, it is like having my very own book club organized for me.