Social+Bookmarks

Social Bookmarks

 * Popular Social Bookmarks**
 * [|Delicious]
 * [|Furl]
 * [|Diigo]


 * “Recommendation” Ranking Sites**
 * [|Digg]
 * [|Stumble Upon]


 * Aggregators and RSS Feeds**
 * [|Bloglines]
 * [|Google Reader]

What is Social Bookmarking?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: //**Social bookmarking** is a method for [|Internet] users to store, organize, search, and manage [|bookmarks] of web pages on the [|Internet] with the help of [|metadata].// //In a social bookmarking system, users save links to [|web pages] that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain [|networks], or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine//.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English
[|Common Craft]'s explanation of social bookmarking

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Del.icio.us Tutorials
[|Beth Kanter's cheat sheet: "Del.icio.us: Making it Use.ful (pdf)] [|Beth Kanter's screencast: Knowledge Sharing with Tags]