Social+Bookmarking

**Social bookmarking** is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.
Social Bookmarking is used by people to save links to their choice of a web page that the user wants to remember or even share with others.The bookmarkings can be veiwed and chronologically, by category or tags through a search engine. So it's very nicely structured.The bookmarks are usually a public thing, but you can make it private or only have it so only specified people can access them. You can have set up so only certain groups or networks can see your social bookmarking. Some social boookmarking will draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create a group of tags or bookmarks. The tages are encouraged to be informal. They enable viewing bookmarks that are associated with a chosen tag. They iclude the number a people who have bookmarked them aswell. Web feeds are provided by many social bookmarking sevices. This way users can be aware of new bookmarks that are being saved, shared, and tagged by other people. As social bookmarking has become more popular they have improved so aspects. Such as adding features like ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotations, and groups or other soical network features. Social bookmarking started back in 1996. It started small with simple features that allowed users to have private and public bookmarks. However like pretty much everything it began to become so much more, even to the point where it became competitive. Companies such as backflip, Blink, Clip2, ClickMarks, Hotlinks and some others began to also enter the market of Social bookmarking. They started adding more extensive features such as bookmarks automatically being sorted into folers. Another feature was the began to be an easy way for users to email their bookmarks to others. So with all these Companies adding their own improvements it became a whole lot more than what it started out as. The only problem was, however, was the companies weren't really making money off of it so slowly they all began to fail. Backflip closed citing "economic woes at the start of the 21st century". In 2005, the founder of Blink said, "I don't think it was that we were 'too early' or that we got killed when the bubble burst. I believe it all came down to product design, and to some very slight differences in approach." Then in 2003 delicious coined the term social bookmarking. They started it all up again and aimed it at businesses and enterprises. So you see social bookmarking is a great way to save and remeber your favorite sights, it also allows you to share with others.

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