SOCIAL BOOKMARKING: A NEW TYPE OF SEARCH

By James Shuster

ENGINE

Overview What is Social Bookmarking? Some history of Social Bookmarking What does it mean? Social Bookmarking Sites How to get started Organization Why is it good The Social Aspects

Social Bookmarking

SB is a way for internet users to store, organize, manage, search and share bookmarks of websites on the internet

Bookmarks / websites are associated with tags which help users to organize and share sites of common interest

How It All Started

Began in 1996 with ItList Features both public and private bookmarks

BM services flourished for the next three years Lacking models for making money, the early

generation BM services burst In 2003, del.icio.us was created and

coined the term Social Bookmarking Today, there are many BM services online

Social Bookmarking Sites

Below is a short list of some social bookmarking sites. All of them are unique in their own way, yet they share common social bookmarking features.

Del.icio.us Digg.com StumbleUpon.com De.lirio.us Blauer Bote Feedmarker Jumptags

How to Get Started

Choose a bookmarking site such as StumbleUpon.com and sign up!

Use the tag button to bookmark sites of interest

Add keywords or tags to organize your sites Save your bookmarks on the site Now you can retrieve and sort your

bookmarks from your StumbleUpon page Be social and share!

Organization

TAGS and KEYWORDS Use tags and keywords to

sort and organize your bookmarks. In doing so, you will make it easier for you to retrieve your bookmarks and help others who view your bookmarks make sense of what you book marked. This is cooperative bookmarking.

Why SB is Good

This creates a really good search engine

Human tagging Discovering new

sites Sharing BM’s with

people of common interest

Reduce searching time

And more!!

Socialization and Collaboration

Share your sites publically

Create a collection of bookmarks with all kinds of people

Strengthening social book-marking sites

Social Bookmarking

A New and Improved Search Engine