Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a method by which internet users can store, organize, search and also manage bookmarks on the internet. The other name for folksonomy is also called social tagging. Folksonomy is a process by which many users share content among each other by adding Metadata in form of keywords.
Sometimes user wants to save a link to a particular web page so that they remember it in the future and it gets easy to retrieve it in such case a social bookmarking system is used. These bookmarks can be shared in public or privately among certain users, groups or shared domains. The people who can access these bookmarked web pages can view these pages by category or tags or by a search engine.
The best part about social bookmarking is that it helps people to know the relevance of the content of the page and use it for future use. The more people bookmark a particular site results in popularity of the site. Social Bookmarking sites help in finding quality sites.
Many social bookmark services persuade users so that they organize their respective bookmarks with informal tags. They also allow user to view bookmarked linked with the particular chosen tag and it also includes information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some of the social bookmarking services allow creating a group of bookmarks or tags on the basis of their content.
In order to make user aware of new bookmarked pages, bookmarking services also provide web feed for their list of new bookmarked pages. So when the other user saves or share or even tag these bookmarked pages then the user becomes aware of new web pages.
Along with these features now you can also have extra benefits of rating, commenting on bookmarked pages, allow to import and export bookmark from the browsers, emailing of bookmarked pages and also social networking features.
