Social bookmarking is an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank and share Internet resources. It derives from an idea similar to that which prompts you to utilize your browser’s Favorites or Bookmarks function: you have a resource of interest or value to you, and you want to save it for easy access in the future. However, instead of saving the resources just to your browser, in social bookmarking you save them to a centrally-hosted service that you can access at anytime, from anywhere. You can classify resources (or “tag” them) in any way you want, and your saved resources (or “bookmarks”) are added to both your personal list and an overall library, where others can access them. That’s the social part. Users then can utilize either your classifications or those created by other users. They also can access information about the resources, such as who saved them, how many people saved them, etc., to evaluate them and more easily locate further sources of information.
Source: SCSU Workshop on Social Bookmarking
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