Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking




Social Bookmarking sites are sites in which you can store, organize and share with other people your favorite web sites. The most popular Social Bookmarking site is Delicious .

Delicious was founded in November of 2003. On December 9, 2005, Delicious was acquired by Yahoo. Delicious is a free site that anyone can use. To join, go to www.delicious.com and create an account. Yahoo users can use their Yahoo account. After your account is created you download the browser buttons that will allow you to copy and paste your chosen bookmarked sites to Delicious. Delicious also allows the user to tag the new bookmark so that it will be easier to retrieve when the user is looking for certain information. The tags act as keywords, similar to the Photo Sharing use of tags. Social Bookmarking sites allow other individuals to visit your site and have access to your bookmarks for their use. Thus, you can go to someone else’s Social Bookmark site and look at their bookmarks. This is a time saving tool since you will not waste unnecessary time looking at sites that are not suited for your use or taste.

Teachers can use Social Bookmarking sites as resources for other teachers and educators. The teacher can also leave additional resources for parent use. Social Bookmarking sites for classroom use can be created. For example, teachers can create a customized reference list of various sources for a particular topic. The class is studying about Egyptian Art. Students can go to the Social Bookmark site and view the sites and compile information for their assignments. This is a great tool for collaborative projects.
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http://www.crunchbase.com/company/delicious
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/12/01/social_bookmarking_services_and_tools.htm
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml