Social Bookmarking

What is Social Bookmarking?

• A technique for Internet users to manage bookmarks of web resources through a website rather than one computer.

Who is using social bookmarking services?

• Teachers and students, and anyone else who knows about it.

How does it work?

• You load the social bookmarking webpage of your choice, sign up to create a profile, add the webpage's link to your toolbar, and start creating bookmarks to web resources.

Why is it significant?

• It helps organize bookmarks easily, and creates a way to share them with others without copying or pasting links. You can tag your bookmarks and make them stand out among other based on how common it is used.

Where is it going?

• More and more people are learning about social bookmarking and has become more useful than a computer's browser toolbar favorites section.

How can it be used by teachers and students?

• Teachers and students can share informative links to provide more resources for an assignment or for it be another means of citing information used for research.

What are the downsides?

• The tagging can be misleading because it is done by humans and not the computer system. They can be misspelled or categorized incorrectly. Also, the tags can lead to spam if spammers link to their websites over and over with popular tags.

What are the benefits (compared with traditional bookmarking methods)?

• The fact that you can tag your bookmarks so they are easier to find in the future is very helpful. Also, to be able to share your bookmarks without going out of your way to do it is a plus.

List 3 popular Social Bookmarking sites that you have explored and tell us which one is your top pick.

• Tagza.com, Delicious.com, Faves.com
• My favorite is faves.com because it doesn't open the add link thing in the same window your current webpage is in, it simply opens a flash player box over the window and automatically includes the url. Also, there was a facebook application to the website and it was much easier than the other to navigate through.