Help With Social Bookmarking Sites

by: Shrinklady, June 21, 2007.

What's with these cute, little icons that lead me to login screens?

These icons let social bookmarking site users flag web pages as interesting in one or two clicks.

They're a trendy way to attract herds of visitors on web sites.

Why should I care about social bookmarking sites?

The main benefit of using a social bookmarking site is that they let you keep your bookmarks when you switch computers.

These sites typically let you organize your bookmarks using keywords ("tags") rather than category trees. And users tend to find tags more natural to use.

These tags then let you to spread information to other users. Reciprocally, they let you discover information found by others via tag-specific RSS feeds. The resulting cooperative classifications are called folksonomies.

Interpretation differences, gossip, rednecks with an axe to grind and spammers then invariably ensure that folksonomies have a low signal to noise ratio.

How do I use social bookmarking sites?

It's super simple. Log into del.icio.us, Digg, Squidoo or Reddit etc. and click the relevant icon on web pages that you find interesting. In fact, look below....

There are of course many more social bookmarking sites and tools. But I chose these because they were the ones that stood out for me at the time of this writing.

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