Social Bookmarking

What is Social Bookmarking?

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.

Social Bookmarking tools provide the ability to save your bookmarks on a website to keep them organised. It also allows you to take your bookmarks with you. Since the bookmarks are saved to the cloud, you can access your bookmarks from any computer. Users add tags and descriptors to their bookmarks to help organise content. The social aspect of this tool is that you can share your favourite websites with others.

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.

Examples of Popular Social Bookmarking Tools

Delicious.com
Diigo.com
Pintrest.com
Scoopit

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