- Websites/articles "voted for" by users
- Popular articles rise to the top in realtime
- Different audiences and themes by site: news, general interest, academic
- Users have and can share list of sites they like
Social bookmarking is a way to keep track of websites and pages you like. Instead of bookmarking them on your computer, you can bookmark them to the internet. Instead of just seeing your own, you can share them with other people and see their bookmarks.
I defer to commoncraft's excellent video explaining social bookmarking for a nice explanation
My del.icio.us bookmarks are here: crazycoolmint's bookmarks on del.icio.us. When I see a cool site, I click on my "Post to del.icio.us" button and tag the link appropriately. It's interesting to see what other people who have bookmarked the same page as me are also bookmarking. I have found some amazingly useful sites by using other people's research and tags... If they think it's good, it must be worth a click for me. Del.icio.us is text based and only has a few options of how to look at your bookmarks, but its simplicity makes it efficient to use. However, is just one kind of social bookmarking site - will look at more later.
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