By,

Looja T

uladhar

Social Bookmarking

Introduction:Definition:

Social bookmarking is a way of storing and classifying

Internet bookmarks, meant to help Internet users find other

sites they might be interested in.

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store,

organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on

the Internet (Wikipedia).

History

The concept of social bookmarking dates back to April 1996 when tList.com was launched.

Followed by web sites like Backflip, Blink, Clip2, Hotlink and Quiver .

The new era begins in 2005-2006.

The first wave: del.icio.us, Furl and Simpy

The second wave Diigo, Netvouz, Ma.gnolia and Stumble Upon.

List of Popular Bookmarking Software

• Blue Dot • BookmarkSync •del.icio.us •CiteULike •Connotea •Digg •Diigo •Furl •GiveALink.org

Ma.gnolia My Web Mixx Newsvine Propeller.co

m Linkwad Reddit Simpy SiteBar StumbleUp

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Uses of Social Bookmarking:

Track all the interesting sites you findNetwork with other people having

same interest around the world.Organize web references for researchContact other people for professional

networking based on their social book mark.

Advantage and Disadvantage of Social Bookmarking

Advantages DisadvantagesCan rank a resource by how

many users have bookmarked it letting users know how many others have found it useful.

Provides an easy way to share bookmarks with your contacts

Can be better than search engines because all tag-based classification of web sites is done by humans who understand the content as oppose to software.

No standard set of key words.

Some tags can be unclear or have multiple meanings

No mechanism to indicate hierarchical relationships between tags.

Popular Bookmarking websitesStumbleupon

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/

Digg

http://digg.com/

The most popular bookmark websites.

According to the www.problogger.net

StumbleUpon –is the Most Popular Social Bookmarking Site.

StumbleUpon

31%

Delicious 21%

Digg 19%

References:

• Wikipedia• www.problogger.net• Study material provided in the class• Google Search Engine

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