"Social bookmarking is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others. - a personal knowledge management tool."
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking)
So the Benefits of this practice are:
ONLINE: Social bookmarks are online, meaning you can access them from anywhere: internet cafes, while traveling... and also if your computer breaks down, like for backups.
SOCIAL: This is the most attractive part of social bookmarking: To share your bookmarks with everyone, publicly. Imagine all those web-pages that have been judged by humans, opposite to most search engine robots. That's why we hear the words 'collaborative' and 'people powered' sometimes. All this can be considered as the best portion of the internet, without viruses, spam, ads and general garbage. The more people bookmark the same page the more popular, the higher rated. This powerful concept is the basics of social news web sites such as digg.com, digg clones and people powered search engines.
So the sites linked below have fantastic, one-step solutions.
They allow you to collect bookmarks in their spaces. You keep track of your favorite sites all organized in one site, also you have access to the bookmarks of other peoples favorites, so you will be sure that you don't have to deal with viruses, spam, ads and general garbage. Just click one of the links below an Add this Site to your favorite Social Bookmark service.
del.icio.us
Digg it
Linkagogo
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ma.gnolia
Newsvine
reddit
Yahoo MyWeb
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Squidoo
Technorati
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AskJeeves
MediaMatrix
PubSub
Rojo
Windows Live Favs |