Social BookMarking WebSites,Social BookMaring adv and disadv

Social bookmarking has its own advantages. There are several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders. All tag-based classification of Internet resources (such as web sites) is done by human beings, who understand the content of the resource, as opposed to software, which algorithmically attempts to determine the meaning of a resource. This provides for semantically classified tags, which are hard to find with contemporary search engines.


Social bookmarking has some disadvantages too.It can also be susceptible to corruption and collusion.Due to its popularity, some users have started considering it as a tool to use along with Search engine optimization to make their website more visible. The more often a web page is submitted and tagged, the better chance it has of being found. Spammers have started bookmarking the same web page multiple times and/or tagging each page of their web site using a lot of popular tags, hence obliging the developers to constantly adjust their security system to overcome abuses. Because of this, some social bookmarking websites were forced to add CAPTCHA protection against spam, which caused some problems for people who use social bookmarking for non-spamming purposes.

Some Social Bookmarking web sites.

1) Blue Dot (Now Flares)
2) BookmarkSync
3) Cloudytags.com
4) del.icio.us
5) Digg
6) Diigo
7) Furl
8) GiveALink.org
9) Ma.gnolia
10) Newsvine
11) reddit
12) Simpy
13) My Web
14) SiteBar
15) StumbleUpon
16) thoof.com/
17) fark



References:WikiPedia

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 .

References:WikiPedia