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Slide 1: Social Bookmarking ar dh ula , ja T By oo L

Slide 2: Introduction Definition: Social bookmarking is a way of storing and classifying Internet bookmarks, meant to help Internet users find other sites they might be interested in. Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet (Wikipedia).

Slide 3: History  The concept of social bookmarking dates back to April 1996 when tList.com was launched. Followed by web sites like Backflip,  Blink, Clip2, Hotlink and Quiver . The new era begins in 2005-2006.  The first wave: del.icio.us, Furl and  Simpy The second wave Diigo, Netvouz,  Ma.gnolia and Stumble Upon.

Slide 4: List of Popular Bookmarking Software • Blue Dot  Ma.gnolia • BookmarkSync  My Web •del.icio.us  Mixx •CiteULike  Newsvine •Connotea  Propeller.com •Digg  Linkwad •Diigo  Reddit •Furl  Simpy •GiveALink.org  SiteBar  StumbleUpon

Slide 5:  Track all the interesting sites you find  Network with other people having same interest around the world.  Organize web references for research  Contact other people for professional networking based on their social book mark.

Slide 6: Advantage and Disadvantage of Social Bookmarking Advantages Disadvantages  Can rank a resource by how many users have bookmarked it  No standard set of key words. letting users know how many  Some tags can be unclear or others have found it useful. have multiple meanings  Provides an easy way to share bookmarks with your contacts  No mechanism to indicate  Can be better than search hierarchical relationships engines because all tag-based between tags. classification of web sites is done by humans who understand the content as oppose to software.

Slide 7: The most popular bookmark websites. According to the www.problogger.net StumbleUpon –is the Most Popular Social Bookmarking Site. StumbleUpon 31% Delicious 21% Digg 19%

Slide 8: Popular Bookmarking websites Stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/ Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ Digg http://digg.com/

Slide 9: References: Wikipedia • www.problogger.net • Study material provided in the class • Google Search Engine •