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Social Bookmarking Facts
Filed Under (Tips) by Socialmatic on 06-05-2008
One of the networking methods that have evolved from internet architecture is social bookmarking. An example of such popular sites will be del.icio.us. in this site, you will be able to surf the web, share interests as well as bookmarking URL. It is actually the same as saving bookmarks to your favorite. However, the collection of favorites has a coding ststem. By social bookmarking, you can just simply add a personal tag with your list of keywords which characterizes the sites.
Users on the web have access to your library as well as personal interests. You will be able to search through the sites that others bookmarked just by utilizing a web based application. You will not only use a search term but also tag to characterize the site. Tags also help to provide your email address as well as allowing others to communicate with you personally.
One of the drawbacks is that the tag search is getting every commercial websites who has laid claim to the keywords. Moreover, it takes a lot of time on scanning and scrolling to search for sites being tagged by individuals instead of search engines.
There are many platforms for social bookmarking. For example, Flickr is a site where you can use to upload photo. However, website like 43places.com is a site whereby you will upload your travel experiences, photos, as well as interests along with your profile. Moreover, social shopping exchange like wists is bookmarks about commercial shopping sites. The level of personal communication allowed by social networking sites depends on you.
There are other bookmarking sites such as backflip, blinklist, blogmarks, connotea, feedmarker, lookmarks, Yahoo! My web 2.0, and etc.
They have a variety of tricks and widgets that make their sites different. Some of them have fairly complicated search methods for their subscribed users whereby some allow you to bundle tags for searching.
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