Social bookmarking sites are the most popular way to share, classify and search links through the practice of stylish ongoing techniques on the internet. Social bookmarking means saving bookmarks to a commercial or public website by tagging them with different keywords. In other words social bookmarking is a procedure performed by a user over an internet which allows users to categorize and save a collection of bookmarks of different website and to share them with other users. Services which are specialized to a specific topic or subject like books, music, shopping items, etc. can also be found to bookmark.
This concept of sharing online bookmarks was started on April of 1996. After couple of years sites like del.icio.us, Simpy, has started their services as social bookmarking sites. With the trend that anyone can participate in social bookmarking. Nowadays there are lots of social bookmarking sites are came to the internet giving their services. Some of them are Digg, Onlywirre, Reddit, Feedster, Technorati, etc.
Benefits of social bookmarking – It can be done manually as compare to software it is worthless, We can share resources, We can use them for our website to get traffic, you can share your concepts and find new insights. It produces people’s communities on relevant topics and interests. For people who are sharing knowledge, management and research, for them social bookmarking is becoming favorite and profitable. |