Another WEB 2.0 Feature – Social Bookmarking
It truly is interesting to see how different uses of the internet rise so quickly and are put to use in various ways. For instance, Youtube is used by a wide range of audiences, from young kids posting a video about tripping over backpacks to people using it to post “how-to’s” for training. Social bookmarking use has also been on the rise.
Social bookmarking is a new way of keeping the web sites that are important to you organized. Yet with this type of bookmarking, it doesn’t restrain you to one computer’s list of Favorites in Internet Explorer. Because the bookmarks and tags are stored on a server, it allows you to continue to bookmark web sites from any computer you are using. With each web site that you choose to store, you can provide descriptive tags. Using tags allow you to access the sites that you have bookmarked by the use of the tag. For instance, if you bookmarked OnlineBible.com, you could use tags such as bible, scripture and Jesus. I could store other Christian web sites and apply the same tags so when I searched my stored web sites using “bible” those sites with that tag would be listed. The other benefit to social bookmarking is that you can allow others to see your list of web sites as well. They can search the sites that you have bookmarked using the tags also. A widely used social bookmarking web site is http://del.icio.us.com. To better understand social bookmarking, follow this link – Understanding Social Bookmarking. Social bookmarking has allowed us to stay better organized on the Internet. After all there are 80 billion web sites to review!