Learn about Social Bookmarking

What's Social Bookmarking?

have you ever e-mailed a buddy or relation and sent them a link to an internet site you thought they'd find interesting? If that is the case you have cooperated in social bookmarking.

what is social bookmarking? It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.


With Social Bookmark internet sites, users can save and categorize an individual collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Social bookmarks are ofted'tagged' with keywords. Users might also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to sign up for the tallies of others.


The term social bookmarking was officially coined in the latter half 2003. This service was generally targeted on tagging at that time. In 2004 things started warming up. By 2007 major firms like IBM entered the scene. Now we have specialized services for scientists, and there are services totally focused on business. There's a social software market, and BBC website has added bookmarking links for its news stories. Such is the wide reach and scope of this service.

Social bookmarking has a great future. It is far superior to traditional search engine spiders. In this system all classifications are done by humans and not by software. Since humans understand the content of the resource, the tag-based classification is authentic.


Digg is one of these social bookmarking sites. The way Digg works is relatively simple. You enroll with them and create an account. Once you create an account you can bookmark and tag any URL you like. If others locally find that URL to be deserving they can'Digg' it. This basically gives them a thumb up vis acknowledgment. If the end-user doesn't like the URL it can bury it essentially giving it a thumb down.

With this type of thumbs up or thumbs down approach the system can use the collaborative effort of the masses to help decide which URL's should be noted on the front page, and which stories should be given top billing. If you do manage to get yourself noted on the 1st page for a bit you are in for a giant surge in traffic as there are many members that employ Digg.