SOCIAL BOOKMARKING: A NEW TYPE OF SEARCH
ENGINE
By James Shuster
Overview
What is Social Bookmarking? Some history of Social Bookmarking What does it mean? Social Bookmarking Sites How to get started Organization Why is it good The Social Aspects
Social Bookmarking
SB is a way for internet users to store, organize, manage, search and share bookmarks of websites on the internet Bookmarks / websites are associated with tags which help users to organize and share sites of common interest
How It All Started
Began in 1996 with ItList
Features
both public and private bookmarks
BM services flourished for the next three years
Lacking
models for making money, the early generation BM services burst
In 2003, del.icio.us was created and coined the term Social Bookmarking Today, there are many BM services online
Social Bookmarking Sites
Below is a short list of some social bookmarking sites. All of them are unique in their own way, yet they share common social bookmarking features.
Del.icio.us Digg.com StumbleUpon.com De.lirio.us Blauer Bote Feedmarker Jumptags
How to Get Started
Choose a bookmarking site such as StumbleUpon.com and sign up! Use the tag button to bookmark sites of interest Add keywords or tags to organize your sites Save your bookmarks on the site Now you can retrieve and sort your bookmarks from your StumbleUpon page Be social and share!
Organization
TAGS and KEYWORDS
Use
tags and keywords to sort and organize your bookmarks. In doing so, you will make it easier for you to retrieve your bookmarks and help others who view your bookmarks make sense of what you book marked. This is cooperative bookmarking.
Why SB is Good
This creates a really good search engine Human tagging Discovering new sites Sharing BM’s with people of common interest Reduce searching time And more!!
Socialization and Collaboration
Share your sites publically Create a collection of bookmarks with all kinds of people Strengthening social book-marking sites
Social Bookmarking A New and Improved Search Engine