SEO Tuition Presents What is social bookmarking?

Social bookmarking ( "social bookmark", "social navigation" or "bookmarking") is a way for Internet users to store, classify, search and share their favorite links. SEO Tuition wants to teach the peoples.

In a social bookmarking system or network, users save lists of web resources that they find useful. These lists are accessible to users of a network or website. Other users with similar interests can view links by subject, category, tag, or even randomly. Apart from the Web favorites, one can find other specialized services on a particular subject (food and wine, books, videos, e-commerce, cartography ...).

Historical

The concept of online shared bookmark lists dates from April 1996 with the emergence of the itList.com site [1]. Over the next three years, this sector competed with newly arrived companies such as Backflip, BlinkList, Clip2, Hotlinks, Quiver, etc. [2], [3]. Lacking economically viable models, most of these pioneering social bookmarking sites disappeared with the bursting of the Internet bubble.

In 2005 and 2006, social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, StumbleUpon and Mister Wong became popular. Sites like Reddit, Digg, Newsvine and the new Netscape portal have applied the principle of social bookmarking to their new services. In 2005, IBM announced its intention to enter the social software market (see Article by D. Millen, J. Feinberg, B. Kerr, and Social Bookmarking in the Company, Nov. 2005).     

Operation

In a social bookmarking system, users record links to the web pages they find interesting. These link lists are then available to the public or to a particular network. Thus people with the same interests can consult them, whether by category, by name or even randomly. Some rely on a directory allowing a certain confidentiality.

All their resources are also categorized via the definition and assignment of keywords (or labels) by the users themselves (see Folksonomy). Most social bookmarking services allow users to search for bookmarks based on their association with given keywords; then rate the resources by the number of users who have them in their favorites. Many social bookmarking services have developed algorithms to link the keywords assigned to websites, this algorithm examines groups of particular keywords and their relationship with other keywords.

Growing success and competition has allowed us to develop the number of services on offer, it's not just about sharing bookmarks, but also about classifying, commenting, importing or exporting them, adding notes, reviewing them, send by email, receive automatic notifications or subscribe, add annotations, create groups or social networks. Take more information by clicking on SEOTuition.

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