What is Social Bookmarking?
Posted in Kewl Stuff, web technologies on Nov 10th, 2008
Social bookmarking is a way for users of the internet to share websites or web pages that they consider interesting. A service like Delicious allows you create a list of bookmarks that you can share with others. A firefox extension for Delicious will allow you to immediately bookmark sites and add them to you Delicious account. If you sign up with Delicious you can find all my bookmarks by searching for “mytraveloptimizer” under the “People->Go to user”function. You can also search by keywords like Costa Rica, Costa Rica maps, etc.
A site like Digg has a process for drawing attention to worthwhile web pages. When you join Digg you can submit any web page or article you find interesting. It is then available for readers to peruse. If they like the article they can “digg” it by clicking on the appropriate icon. The more people that “digg” the article, the higher it will rank on the Digg page.
There is also Reddit and Stumbleupon. Reddit is much like Digg. Stumbleupon is a little different. Stumbleupon is more about randomly hitting sites you might be interested in. When you download their extension you can hit a button that will randomly take you to another website. You can choose the categories of subject matter you are interested in order to guide the stumbling to stuff you might be interested in. You can also mark websites that you like so that other stumblers may discover them.
Social bookmarking is a way to sift through the vast amount of information that is available on the web. Its a time saver and a powerful networking tool. Its big and only getting bigger. I have little icons at the end of each of my articles that allow you to automatically Digg or Stumble my content. There are also icons for Reddit, Facebook and Technorati. If you like what I am writing or find it useful please mark my articles with one of these services. Thank you.
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