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What is Social Bookmarking? People can store and share their personal bookmarks on the Web instead of inside the browser on their personal computers.

People can store and share their personal bookmarks on the Web instead of inside the browser on their personal computers.

Advantages Access your bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere. Discover interesting websites that other people have bookmarked and share your own. Quickly access websites using keywords (tags) you have created

Access your bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere.

Discover interesting websites that other people have bookmarked and share your own.

Quickly access websites using keywords (tags) you have created

Tagging Tags are keywords that you assign to your bookmarks to describe the content. You can assign as many tags as you want to describe the bookmark. Size reflects the popularity of the tag

Tags are keywords that you assign to your bookmarks to describe the content.

You can assign as many tags as you want to describe the bookmark.

Size reflects the popularity of the tag

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Tagging Some social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us require one-word tags with no spaces (e.g. SanFrancisco, San.Francisco, San-Francisco) Other sites such as Ma.gnolia allow spaces and special characters (e.g. Romeo & Juliet, best in show)

Some social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us require one-word tags with no spaces (e.g. SanFrancisco, San.Francisco, San-Francisco)

Other sites such as Ma.gnolia allow spaces and special characters (e.g. Romeo & Juliet, best in show)

Social Bookmarking Sites Del.icio.us – founded 2003, acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. http://del.icio.us, or, www.delicious.com Diigo - www.diigo.com (2006) Ma.gnolia - http://ma.gnolia.com/ (2006) Other examples: Blinklist, Blue Dot, Furl, Simpy

Del.icio.us – founded 2003, acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.

http://del.icio.us, or, www.delicious.com

Diigo - www.diigo.com (2006)

Ma.gnolia - http://ma.gnolia.com/ (2006)

Other examples: Blinklist, Blue Dot, Furl, Simpy

Popular – expanded Hotlist; bookmarked by many people very recently; most popular bookmarks at the top of the list.

Popular – expanded Hotlist; bookmarked by many people very recently; most popular bookmarks at the top of the list.

Recent – bookmarks saved within the past few minutes

Recent – bookmarks saved within the past few minutes

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Del.icio.us Advanced search feature allows keyword searching of entire site: description, notes, and tags. Tag subscriptions allow you to keep track of all new bookmarks saved with tags that interest you. Network feature allows you to keep track of the latest bookmarks of people in your network and when you save new bookmarks, you can quickly share them with people in your network.

Advanced search feature allows keyword searching of entire site: description, notes, and tags.

Tag subscriptions allow you to keep track of all new bookmarks saved with tags that interest you.

Network feature allows you to keep track of the latest bookmarks of people in your network and when you save new bookmarks, you can quickly share them with people in your network.

Diigo Highlight text on the page Use “sticky notes” to make annotations Easily import del.icio.us bookmarks

Highlight text on the page

Use “sticky notes” to make annotations

Easily import del.icio.us bookmarks

Advanced search on Diigo allows you to restrict a search to URL, title, comments or highlights

Advanced search on Diigo allows you to restrict a search to URL, title, comments or highlights

Ma.gnolia Thumbnail pictures of websites Uses five-star rating system to indicate quality of website Adding a bookmark to Ma.gnolia actually saves a copy of the webpage for future viewing Easily import bookmarks from del.icio.us

Thumbnail pictures of websites

Uses five-star rating system to indicate quality of website

Adding a bookmark to Ma.gnolia actually saves a copy of the webpage for future viewing

Easily import bookmarks from del.icio.us

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