Social bookmarking explained
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Social bookmarking allows you to save articles and information you find on the internet to your own online filing system. Internet pages you want to regularly visit or find interesting can be saved as social bookmarks so they can be easily accessed with a click of the button. You don't have to remember where you found a certain article or page, and you don't have to scribble down internet addresses so you can re-visit the page in the future. Your social bookmarking filing system will take care of it for you.
When saving an article you're able to describe the article by using "tags", which help to describe the content in the article.
What makes social bookmarking even more exciting is your book marks can be shared with anyone on the internet. For example, if you have saved pages to your bookmarks with tags such as - seniors, travel, discounts, bargains - people will be able to find your pages relating to these tags, and vice versa.
Once you start social bookmarking you will find it's an addictive, fun and exciting way of saving and sharing over the internet.
Getting Started...
The first step is to set up a free account by registering with a social bookmarking service. Registering for an account is a simple process which will take no longer than a couple of minutes. Once registered you can start bookmarking. Listed below are the more popular social bookmarking websites where you can register for a free account:
del.icio.us
At its most basic level, del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online. Del.icio.us also gives users the ability to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. As members of a "social bookmarking" community, del.icio.us users can also see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections to find other interesting online content.
To register, go to del.icio.us Registration
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Digg
Digg users share intersting online content by submitting links to the site. At that point, the Digg audience can vote on whether or not they think it is interesting. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise up higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages.
Another form of social sharing, this site also lets users categorize the content they are submitting to Digg and label it with descriptions of up to 350 characters. Digg users can also submit comments on each content item submitted to the site.
To register, go to Digg Registration
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Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and to find articles to recommend to you. Users can also submit comments on items posted to the site.
To register, go to reddit Registration
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If you are a registered user of Google's personalized homepage, e-mail and other services, you can also save bookmarks and label them with keywords.
Create a personalized Google account
Yahoo!
Users of Yahoo's "MyYahoo" feature can save bookmarks to their personal page, tag them with keywords, and share them with other Yahoo users.
Sign up for a personalized Yahoo account
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