Social Bookmarking - Sharing & Bookmarking Made Easier!!


by Jayesh Chudasama - Date: 2007-04-19 - Word Count: 415 Share This!

Any favorite page or link you want to refer again & again? Want to bookmark it Online? Leave your favorites aside and now access your bookmark anywhere switching to social bookmarking service.

What is Social Bookmarking? Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and "tagging" them with keywords. Bookmarking, on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer. In other way it is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.

These social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet or Intranet. You can also bookmark services specialized to a specific subject or format - feeds, books, videos, music, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. - can be found.

Something about its startup The concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Social bookmarking dates back just a couple of years, when sites like Furl, Simpy, and del.icio.us began operating. Other social bookmarking sites include de.lirio.us, an open source version of del.icio.us, and citeulike, a social bookmarking site for academic papers. Social bookmarking is particularly useful when collecting a set of resources that are to be shared with others. Anyone can participate in social bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking Services The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the pack, including Yahoo MyWeb, appears to be substantially behind.

Here is list of social bookmarking services:

Yahoo, Delicious,Digg ,Fark ,Feedster ,Reddit ,Blinklist ,Buzznet ,Citeulike ,Connotea ,Findory ,Furl ,Linkagogo ,Magnolia ,Simpy ,Spurl ,Technorati ,Backflip,Blinkbits ,Blogdigger ,Blogmarks , Co.mments,Shadows ,Wists ,Blog Memes,Feedmelinks ,OnlyWire ,Scuttle and Smarking

An article on Brain Bubbles - Social Bookmarking lists out top 30+ social bookmarking services analysis, URLs, features & ranking with details.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

1. First of it is done by people than any software thus provides meaningful and relevant resource.

2. Social bookmarking makes people communities on similar interest and topics.

3. This provides for semantically classified tags, which are hard to find with contemporary search engines.

4. It is better way to share resources efficiently

5. You can dig further around your concept and find new insights.

6. Creates related taxonomies that have meaning for a particular community and group of people.

People who are interested in knowledge sharing, knowledge management & research, social bookmarking has become favorite. What's about you?


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