Essentials of social bookmarking

AquSag Technologies
Business,Search Engines,social bookmarking,website
Tags: bookmarks, SITES, social bookmarking, tags
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As mentioned in our previous posts, social bookmarking is a centralized online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Social bookmarking does not save the resources themselves like it’s done in file sharing. Instead, it merely bookmarks that reference them, i.e. a link to the bookmarked page. Descriptions may be added to these bookmarks in the form of free text comments, votes in favor of or against its quality, or tags. When put up collectively or collaboratively, these descriptions become a folksonomy.

Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking can be utilized to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts. Institutions including businesses, libraries, and universities leverage social bookmarking as a way to increase information sharing among members and improve web search.

Information sharing

Social bookmarking systems allow the users to save links to web pages that they want to remember or share. These bookmarks are usually public. However, they can be customized and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups. According to the requirements, these bookmarks can even be shared only inside certain networks or another combination of public and private domains. Moreover, the allowed people can usually view these bookmarks by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Examples of public bookmarks

These bookmarks can even be organized with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders. Some social bookmarking sites also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. In addition to this, tag relationships can be utilized to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.

Social bookmarking 2

Social bookmarking websites also allow subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users. Moreover, it helps to promote your sites by networking with other social bookmarkers and collaborating with each other.