Social Bookmarking Revolution
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What is Social Bookmarking?
ever e-mailed a chum or relation and sent them a link to a website you thought they’d find interesting? If that is the case you have collaborated in social bookmarking.
what is social bookmarking? It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your browser, you are saving them to the web. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with mates.
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 could also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the catalogues of others.
The term social bookmarking was officially coined in the latter half 2003. This service was generally concentrated on tagging at that point. In 2004 things started warming up. By 2007 major firms such as IBM entered the scene. Now we have specialized services for scientists, and there are services completely targeted on business. There’s a social software market, and BBC site has added bookmarking links for its news reports. Such is the wide reach and scope of this service.
Social bookmarking has a great future. It is far superior to conventional 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 easy. You join up 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 worthy they can’Digg’ it. This fundamentally gives them a thumb up re acceptance. If the end-user doesn’t like the URL it can bury it essentially giving it a thumb down.
With this kind of thumbs up or thumbs down approach the system can use the cooperative effort of the masses to help decide which URL’s should be mentioned on the front page, and which stories should be given top billing. If you do manage to get yourself listed on the 1st page for a bit you are in for a giant surge in traffic as there are several members that make use of Digg.
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