Social BookMarking,Advantages,Disadvantages - I

If you want to save or share links of your favorite web pages you don’t need to copy the link and store. Social bookmarking comes into picture to do in this kind of scenarios to remember our favourite web pages or sites. 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.

These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features.

The concept of shared online bookmarks had started in April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Within a couple of years, online bookmark services became competitive.

The concept of shared online bookmarks had started in April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Within a couple of years, online bookmark services became competitive.

In 2003 del.icio.us was founded and it became successful in social bookmarking area.

In 2004 Connotea was launched focusing on social bookmarking for scientists.

In 2005 Simpy, Furl, Stumbleupon, Netvouz were released.

In 2006 Ma.gnolia, Diigo also entered into social bookmarking market.For social news bookmarking the following sites were released Digg, reddit, Newsvine .

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