Social bookmarking sites brings social bookmarking articles and news items to interested web surfers. The concept is quite simple - social bookmarking sites are websites where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed.
Social bookmarking sites generally organize their content using tags. Social bookmarking sites are an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the practice of tagging. Popularity is established through the grouping and further analysis of these tags.
Social bookmarking and tagging is part of the new type of Interactive Web - sometimes referred to as Web 2.0. In its present form, social bookmarking got started with the launch of the web site del.icio.us, back in 2003.
In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources which they find useful. Often these lists are publicly accessible, so that other people with similar interests can view the links by category or by the tags themselves. Most social bookmarking sites allow users to search for bookmarks which are associated with given "tags", and rank the resources by the number of users which have bookmarked them.
Social bookmarking has several advantages over the machine automated resource location and classification software performed by search engine spiders. For social bookmarking is done by human beings, who understand the resource's content, versus search engines which attempt to determine the meaning of a resource.
Further, as people bookmark resources they find useful, the result when compiled gives a "preference" for a particular resource. This is a more useful "relevancy" test than other systems provided by search engines which rank resources based on the number of external links pointing to it.
It basically comes down to human versus machine "votes" for the relevancy of a search term. Search engines - who base relevancy on the number of incoming links - might not find a resource as useful as found with social bookmarking - when actual humans vote for the relevancy of a site - and tag it as such.
If you are interested in developing a social bookmarking website - you can use an "open source" resource - located at http://www.connotea.org/code
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Social bookmarking sites brings social bookmarking articles and news items to interested web surfers. The concept is quite simple - social bookmarking sites are websites where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed.
Social bookmarking and tagging is part of the new type of Interactive Web - sometimes referred to as Web 2.0. In its present form, social bookmarking got started with the launch of the web site del.icio.us, back in 2003.