Not digging that Digg...

Digg sounds like an excellent idea. A site, where people can rate and share news stories. Sounds exciting, right? But try logging into it and editing your profile! I am yet to accomplish that simple task, since every time I attempt it, Digg refuses to cooperate and freezes. Oh well, I'll try another day... They could be having some issues today. Sun spots, perhaps...

P.S. 07.11.09 Made another attempt to edit my profile; problem still appears to be not fixed.

Delicious

Delicious is a great tool for organizing one's bookmarks on the web. The beauty of it is that one is no longer bound to one particular terminal to be able to retrieve the list of one's favorite sites. Delicious is a breeze to set up, and importing one's existing bookmarks from the hard drive is just a matter of following easy steps.
Here's a link to my Delicious page --
http://delicious.com/bearchrltt

Tagging

Tagging is a complementary way to categorize content. Tagging might seem at first like rather an unorganized way of categorizing, since different users apply their own particular vocabulary to describe content, but as long as tagging remains secondary to subject headings, it can be a useful tool to supplement search performance in the library environment.

Twitter

Have you ever watched Conan's Twitter Tracker? Those skits pretty much sum up my general thoughts about Twitter.
That being said, Twitter can be a fairly useful promotional tool for special programming in libraries. It's great for issuing last-minute reminders. But, as far as individual internet users are concerned, Twitter's uses are way too narrow, and whaterver initial thrills it might offer get stale fast.

IM

I'm a long-time user of MSN messenger, and I prefer it to Yahoo and Myspace alternatives, as it doesn't freeze up or drain your bandwidth as much. IM'ing has always been a great alternative to email, as interaction there is instantaneous. Also, it's a wonderful substitute to face-to-face business meetings/discussion boards (IM-based book club, anyone?). It saves time and travel and provides a record of discussions, without having a designated person taking notes.

Really loving Meebo. It's a great tool for accesing your IM account, without the need to load the software for each of the major individual IM services.

LibraryThing widget

Been playing around with LbraryThing. I found it very useful for keeping track of the books I read. I tend to go through a lot of books, and afterwards, cannot remember titles or authors to save my life. LibraryThing is going to be my little memory helper. :)

My slideshow

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Ning

Like with the case of Facebook, I've been a member of one of the sub-networks of Ning for a couple of years. You can find it at http://crimespace.ning.com/, and it's dedicated to all things crime fiction.
Page structure on Ning is basic. With enough effort, one could turn Ning into a fairly adequate advertising tool, but, honestly, it never really caught on with me. Although its simplicity and accessibility could be considered a plus, Ning neither has the number of users available through other more popular social networks, nor innovation.

Facebook

I've now had my Facebook page for quite a while. It's handy for keeping up with your friends, and it has plenty of fun aps to play with. Although Facebook page structure is not as flexible as with MySpace, it's not as graphics intensive and much faster to load (spoken by a person whose home is on dial-up).
Another convenience of Facebook is its tight privacy settings. No one can view a person's information without first being approved as a friend. Of course, MySpace has that capability also, but one has to actively change one's account settings to achieve that.
Accessiblity from mobile devices is another of Facebook's cool features, which makes things more convenient while promoting events and activities.