August 7, 2007 5:20 PM PDT

Social bookmarking explained with hand gestures, puppetry

by Josh Lowensohn

Some Web 2.0 concepts don't make sense to people unless you break it down to them in ways they can understand. We do our best with our Newbie Guides for things like Twitter, Flickr, Google Reader, and Facebook. Along similar lines comes a video about Del.icio.us, and social bookmarking in general, from Common Craft--a consulting company that does Web videos. This may be viral marketing, but it's very well executed and a joy to watch. I'd hire these guys for my start-up video.

[via Digital Inspiration and DownloadSquad]

Josh Lowensohn is an associate editor for Webware.com, CNET's blog about cool and otherwise useful Web applications and services. If you've found a site you'd like profiled, shoot him an e-mail. E-mail Josh.

Topics:: Audio and video,; Productivity and business,; Social network and groups

Tags:: Common Craft,; viral marketing,; Del.icio.us,; social bookmarking,; video

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