store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web
pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.
In a social bookmarking system, users save links to
web pages that they want to remember and/or share.
These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved
privately, shared only with specified people or groups,
shared only inside certain networks, or another
combination of public and private domains. The allowed
people can usually view these bookmarks
chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search
engine.
Most social bookmark services encourage users to
organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of
the traditional browser-based system of folders,
although some services feature categories/folders or a
combination of folders and tags. They also enable
viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and
include information about the number of users who
have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking
services also draw inferences from the relationship of
tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.
Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds
for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by
tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new
bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by
other users.
As these services have matured and grown more
popular, they have added extra features such as ratings
and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and
export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of
bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social
network features.[
pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.
In a social bookmarking system, users save links to
web pages that they want to remember and/or share.
These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved
privately, shared only with specified people or groups,
shared only inside certain networks, or another
combination of public and private domains. The allowed
people can usually view these bookmarks
chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search
engine.
Most social bookmark services encourage users to
organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of
the traditional browser-based system of folders,
although some services feature categories/folders or a
combination of folders and tags. They also enable
viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and
include information about the number of users who
have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking
services also draw inferences from the relationship of
tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.
Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds
for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by
tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new
bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by
other users.
As these services have matured and grown more
popular, they have added extra features such as ratings
and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and
export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of
bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social
network features.[
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