| Social bookmarking is a unique method for Internet | | | | clusters of tags or bookmarks. In addition, many |
| users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks | | | | bookmarking services provide Web feeds for their lists |
| of web pages. In this system, users save links to Web | | | | of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags, as this |
| pages that they want to remember and/or share. | | | | allows subscribers to become aware of new |
| These bookmarks are usually public, but depending on | | | | bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by |
| the service's features, may be saved privately, shared | | | | other users. |
| only with specific people or groups, shared only inside | | | | The Advantages Of Using Social Bookmarking |
| certain networks, or another combination of publicness | | | | Systems |
| and privateness. The allowed people can usually view | | | | Social bookmarking has several advantages over |
| these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, | | | | traditional resource location and classification software, |
| via a search engine, or even randomly. | | | | such as search engine spiders. All tag-based sorting |
| To put it simply, social bookmarking is bookmarking in | | | | and classification of Internet Web sites, is done by |
| public. This accomplishes two things: first, your | | | | human beings, who understand the content of the |
| bookmarks are accessible not just from one computer, | | | | resource, whereas, a computer software electronically |
| but from anywhere you can access the Web; and | | | | attempts to determine the meaning or value, of a |
| second, instead of having a huge list of disorganized | | | | resource or site. |
| bookmarks or favorites in your browser, you have a | | | | Additionally, as people bookmark resources that they |
| database of organized bookmarks where it's easy to | | | | find useful, resources that are of more use are |
| locate what you need. Today, there are a lot of | | | | bookmarked by more users. As such, a system will |
| technology, and special interest sites that offer | | | | "rank" a resource based on its perceived utility. This is |
| reviews, quick tutorials and overviews on the basics, | | | | arguably a more useful method for end users than |
| as well as the advance aspects of social bookmarking | | | | other systems, which rank resources based on the |
| . | | | | number of external links pointing to it. |
| Organizing Bookmarks With Informal Tags | | | | At present, there area a lot of bookmarking Web sites |
| Most social bookmarking services generally encourage | | | | that help different levels of users and interests groups. |
| users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags | | | | There are sites that serve the bookmarking needs of |
| instead of the traditional browser-based system of | | | | students, university professors, doctors, Web |
| folders, although some services feature categories | | | | programmers and designers, engineers, and others. |
| folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also | | | | Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds |
| enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen | | | | for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by |
| tag, and include information about the number of users | | | | tags. This allows subscribers to be aware of new |
| who have bookmarked them. | | | | bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by |
| Some social bookmarking services also draw | | | | other users. |
| inferences from the relationship of tags to create | | | | |