1. Social
Bookmarking

2. • Online bookmarking tools have become very popular in
the last ten years. While using the favourite option on
your web browser usually does the trick, there are just
many extra cool functions that online bookmarking can
provide. One of these is sharing bookmarked sites
online either publicly or with a certain network. It also
allows for the use of informal tags in order to classify
what the bookmarked sites are about or whom they are
for. The whole thing is a very social affair over the
internet since it can be used to share reference links
among professionals/practitioners from various
industries and even people who share the same
humour. It’s also very popular for research collaboration
over the internet.
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3. Social Bookmarking Websites:
• Digg. This site is a bookmark primarily in the business of
sharing news from various industries and topics. You
can choose to browse links related to business,
entertainment, gaming, lifestyle, offbeat, politics,
science, sports, technology or the world news. Its
difference from your topic related news site like
www.mashable.com is that the content of the site
doesn’t come from a single company or user but instead
the content is a collection of reference links that come
from users. You can share links to your own blog or
blogs you’ve found useful and you can check for content
that you need to research on. The cool thing is that you
can even personalize your own news! http://digg.com/
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4. • Reddit. This one is an online social bookmarking
community that focuses on what is popular around
the internet. The bookmarks focus on humour,
gaming and various other tags such as politics,
trees and SEO among thousands of others. Users
submit content and vote on whether they like or
dislike a certain bookmark to determine its
popularity. It’s a very fun social bookmarking site
since they have their own humour and their own
“culture” so-to-speak. www.reddit.com
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5. • Delicious. Delicious is very similar to Reddit since
both are what I’d call the prototypical social
bookmarking format. Links are shared. Links are
tagged according to category. Users save the
bookmarks. Unlike Reddit though, it doesn’t use
the like/dislike system. Instead, the popularity of
the bookmark depends on site views and how
much a bookmark is saved by users.
www.delicious.com or http://de.licio.us
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6. • Stumbleupon. Stumbleupon is kind of a service
that helps bring content that you enjoy to you. You
register an account, choose tags that you’re
interested in then click their stumble button.
You’re then allowed to rate the content that’s they
feed you. The content that’s shared depends on
your friends (the service can be linked to Facebook)
or users that share the same interest as you. It’s a
cool fun site that’s very personalized.
www.stumbleupon.com
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7. • Tumblr. Social bookmarking tools usually rely on
sharing reference links but Tumblr is a kind of hybrid
between a social bookmarking tool and a blog. Tumblr
is primarily a blogging platform and a content
management system to the tune of Joomla or
WordPress but the majority of the content posted in the
site comes from other Tumblr users or content
aggregated from other websites. A lot of pictures,
videos and articles are shared by users. When you
choose to follow another user, the content he or she
shares will appear on your dashboard. You also have the
option to search tags you are interested in so that you
can find content from users that you don’t follow.
www.tumblr.com
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8. • There are various other social bookmarking sites
that focus both on general topics like the ones I’ve
already shared and many others that focus on
niche topics. If you’re trying to market your blog or
website, using social bookmarks can also drive
people to your site. Try it and learn the wonders
social bookmarking can do for you by monitoring
Google analytics.
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