8 July 2009

What is Social Bookmarking?

With Social Bookmark websites, users can save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Social bookmarks are ofted "tagged" with keywords. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others.
"Add To Bookmarks" used to refer to adding a link/URL to your web browser's bookmarks list. Today, when you see "Add To Bookmarks," it usually refers to a social bookmarking site, where you can save, catalog, and share interesting pages.

If you haven't tried it yet, go for it. Social bookmarking is becoming the best new way to search.

Have you ever e-mailed a friend or family member and sent them a link to a website you thought they might find interesting? If so, you have participated in social bookmarking.

What is social bookmarking? It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.

What can Social Bookmarking do for me?

Not only can you save your favorite websites and send them to your friends, but you can also look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag. Most social bookmarking sites allow you to browse through the items based on most popular, recently added, or belonging to a certain category like shopping, technology, politics, blogging, news, sports, etc.

You can even search through what people have bookmarked by typing in what you are looking for in the search tool. In fact, social bookmarking sites are being used as intelligent search engines.

Is Social News the Same as Social Bookmarking?

Social news sites are different from standard social bookmarking sites by focusing on specific articles and blog posts rather than websites. Because of this, they can be a great source of news, and they also offer the ability to participate in the discussion by leaving comments on popular news items.

How Can I Benefit From Social Bookmarking?

It's pretty easy to tell that the article with a hundred votes might be your best choice. And this is a lot easier than putting "social shopping" into a search engine and seeing page after page after page of links that may or may not be useful.

So, what started out as a way to send bookmarks to friends has really grown into social search engines. You no longer need to page through thousands of results to find a needle in a haystack. Now, you can simply go to a social bookmarking site, choose the category or tag that matches your interest, and find the most popular websites.

List Of Social Bookmarking Sites:-
Posted by Abhishek K. Mishra

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