Social Bookmarks

Social bookmarking is a method for users to store, organize, retrieve 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 they want to remember and / or action. These bookmarks are generally public and the private sector can be saved, shared with single persons or groups, shared only within certain networks, or another combination of public and private spheres. People can generally permitted view these bookmarks in chronological order, by category or tags, or through a search engine.

Most social services bookmark encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system files, although certain categories of services functionality / folders, or a combination of files and labels. They also allow viewing favorites tagged chosen, and include information on the number of users who have favorites. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship beacons for creating clusters of tags or bookmarks.

Many social bookmarking Web Services provide food for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This enables customers to be aware of new bookmarks as they are registered, divided and marked by other users.

As these services have matured and become more popular, they added additional features such as notes and comments on the bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, bookmarks emailing, Web annotation, and social groups or other characteristics of the network.