| It Makes Sense To Find Out More About Social Bookmarking Advantages And Downsides |
| Written by Sam Zellen |
| Monday, 14 December 2009 08:05 |
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The concept of social bookmarking revolves around being able to save your bookmarks to a public online website and also to add tags to the saved bookmarks. The tags used are keywords that the user can create and define. Bookmarking is a common concept that every internet user uses and revolves around saving the address of one or more website in order to access those addresses at a later time.
The concept of social bookmarking revolves around being able to save your bookmarks to a public online website and also to add tags to the saved bookmarks. The tags used are keywords that the user can create and define. Bookmarking is a common concept that every internet user uses and revolves around saving the address of one or more website in order to access those addresses at a later time. If you are someone that wishes to make a set of social bookmarks you will do well to register with a social bookmarking site where you can get to save bookmarks and also tag the bookmarks according to your choice. Then you can specify whether the bookmark is public or simply private. Mostly, the sites that allow for storing of social bookmarks will have their own way of ensuring that all the bookmarks actually work properly. The entire social bookmark concept began quite recently and it started out with sites such as Simpy and also with del-icio.us. Once these sites succeeded it did not take long before other sites opened up and soon it became a mini-revolution. Such sites help users to collect resources which can be shared further. Sites that offer social bookmarks have now broadened the horizons and it has helped to better organize information and it can help users to categorize various resources in a more effective manner. All users need to do is to save their links to any Webpage which are required for use at a later time. In most cases the bookmarks are public though you have the option of saving them privately in which case you can share these bookmarks with certain people or groups of persons and they can shared within a network or even as combination of domains - both private and public. Normally, a site offering social bookmark saving facilities will ask their users to do the organization of bookmarks through use of tags and not as is conventionally done in a browser which makes use of folders. There no doubts the fact that a social bookmarking site works much better than software programs that handle resource locations and even software that classify information - examples of which are search engine spiders. The only trouble is that till date there is lack of any standards for the way you can create keywords and even tagging is not standardized. It is also easy to tag things wrongly which in most cases occur because of making spelling errors and tags can have numerous meanings which means lack of confusion and also lack of proper clarity. About the Author: Do you enjoy sharing your bookmarks? It's nice to have your favorite sites neatly in one place so we don't have to search for them time and again. But did you know you can share your bookmarks on a social bookmarking site? Find out about this exciting new trend! |