Social Bookmark Sites-Helpful for

Daily Work

By Sopan Shewale

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking is the practice of Saving bookmarks to a public web site Tagging them with keywords

Example Sites

How these sites Work? User can Bookmark Resource (Website URL) of his

interest-while browsing website User can Assign Tags to each Resource while saving Sites help to show particular users

All Resources, Resources according to a Tag/Tags

Users can see how many people have used a tag search for all resources with same tag/tags

Site helps to show List of users have bookmarked the resource List of tags are used by users to bookmark the resource

My Favorite Bookmark site

My Favorite is

Why? Features Good UI/API (Firefox Plugin) Good Number of Users RSS Support

I use del.icio.us for… Saving Bookmarks

Access them from any computer anywhere in the world Sharing Bookmarks with Friends/Colleagues Tracking Interest Areas

Technology Places Colleagues, People who inspire you

Search Resources (Websites) on particular topic/area Bookmarking Private URLs/Resources from

Intranet/Client Working Location Don’t waste brain to remember items like

Product Specification/Manuals Bug List, Test Case details

First Time Users-Registration is RequiredUse proper username/password, rememberthat because you will be using that all thetime

Your Username will appear in URL of yourBookmarks – e.g. my username is sopan_shewaleSo the Bookmark URL is:http://del.icio.us/sopan_shewale

Demo

Demo (Cont…)

You need to install the Firefox Extension/PluginTo easily bookmark any URL.

Demo (cont…)

Resource-To be Bookmarked

Use Button to Save Bookmark

Demo (Cont…)

Notes about Bookmark

Space Separated Tags

Private Bookmark-check this box

Demo (Cont…)

Demo (Cont…)

I love “popular” feature most.I avoid googling maximum time – for any newTerm/word-I use del.icio.us E.g. I want to Learn more on Javascript – I visit URLhttp://del.icio.us/popular/javasctipt - i definitely get best Resources to Learn/know more on Javascript.

Demo (Cont…)

Demo (Cont…)

Demo (Cont…)

Demo (Cont…)

Firefox Plugin gives good UI toBrowse/navigate your bookmarks/display details on URLS (You need to be logged intohttp://del.icio.us site)

Demo (Cont…)

Thank You