Social Bookmarking

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Social bookmarking

• A social bookmarking service is a centralized

online service which enables users to add, annotate,

edit, and share bookmarks of web

documents.[1] Many online bookmark management

services have launched since 1996; Delicious,

founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social

bookmarking" and "tagging".

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Social bookmarking

• Tagging is a significant feature of social

bookmarking systems, enabling users to organize

their bookmarks in flexible ways and develop shared

vocabularies known as folksonomies.

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Uses

• For individual users, social bookmarking can be

useful as a way to access a consolidated set of

bookmarks from several computers, organize large

numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with

contacts. Institutions including businesses, libraries,

and universities have used social bookmarking as a

way to increase information sharing among members.

Social bookmarking has been also used to improve

web search.

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Uses

• Libraries using social bookmarking

• Libraries have found social bookmarking to be useful

as an easy way to provide lists of informative links to

patrons. The University of Pennsylvania (UP) was

one of the first library adopters with its PennTags.

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