What is Social Bookmarking?

[russelcathey]

Social Bookmarking refers to web based applications that enable us to store bookmarks online instead of in our favourites or bookmarks on our computers. The immediate advantage of this is that we can access our bookmarked sites from any computer - even a mobile phone.

However bookmarks also have a distinct advantage over search engine results. Searching the internet with a search engine, no matter how good, means that the information is selected by computer software that attempts to determine meaning.

[janysek]

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, own resources are not shared, but only the bookmarks that refer to them.Social bookmarking sites allow you to store, share links and tags. You can share these links with friends and colleagues. You can also access your links from anywhere in the world.

[samuelbelly]

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet using tags or keywords on sites like Digg or Del.icio.us. This helps you to access bookmarks from any computer with online access. These markers can be public or private.

[brevedecane]

Social bookmarking is a relatively new technology that has changed the way we experience the Web, which allows users to store, classify, evaluate, comment and look for links to any website or blog.

[jemima.harris]

Social book marking is the way of storing favourite website online for the future use. Because bookmarks are online we can share them with our friends and also access them from anywhere.

[rockmartinn24]

Social Bookmarking is a way for people to save their favorite webpages online. Social bookmarking sites allow you to store, tag and share links. Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.

[ben1Greer]

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.

Descriptions may be added to these bookmarks in the form of metadata, so users may understand the content of the resource without first needing to download it for themselves. Such descriptions may be free text comments, votes in favour of or against its quality, or tags that collectively or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".[1]

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

[KevinRock]

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources

[hamilton]

Social Bookmarking is a relatively new technology that has changed the way people experience the Web by allowing users to store, classify, rate, comment on and search links to any website or blog.

[scotmajestic]

Social bookmarking is a way for people to save your favorite websites online. Use social bookmarking sites can access your bookmarks from any computer. Their links to sites that allow you to store, tag and share. You can share these links with friends and colleagues. You can also access your links from anywhere in the world.