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social bookmarking site

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social bookmarking site

A website that publishes user rankings of other websites. People can add comments to the bookmarks and make them private for friends and family or public for everyone. See Pinboard, folksonomy, page ranking, social networking and social sharing.


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The Delicious site offered browser tools for tagging websites. For example, clicking Tag in the Firefox browser opened a window for adding notes and descriptive tags to the site before posting it. As of August 2019, the site became inactive with a new owner claiming it will return in 2021.
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Social bookmarking sites also offer a way for people to promote interesting articles.
Take, for instance, Delicious.com, a social bookmarking site that I have written about here before.
Peruse at your leisure, read, ponder, decide which to share with your colleagues, and think about new ways to share the information, such as through a blog, a teacher-librarian wiki, or a set of favorites/bookmarks on a social bookmarking site such as Backflip (www.backflip.com) or del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/).
New Harmony, IN, September 26, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Ka-boom-it.com, a former social bookmarking site, has been redesigned and is now offering link building services.
Through a strategy called “Video Blasting” the Author Video will be posted on 10+ Video Sharing Sites, BookVenture's Website, BookVenture's Social Media Accounts and author can embed it to his own website, You-Tube link to Social Bookmarking sites, and he will also have a link to share to his own chosen Video Sharing sites.
The use of these social bookmarking sites for curation of digitized artifacts opens up a number of rich opportunities for connecting our students with the past.
* Social bookmarking sites: Reddit, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn groups, Digg and Delicious are the main social bookmarking sites.
Social bookmarking sites such as Diigo and Evernote allow people to store and share favorite websites or other materials in a restricted or larger social network.
A list of only interesting links is never reached in the analyzed cases possibly because the varied and ever changing nature of internet makes it difficult to completely eliminate broken links and disguised commercials even from social bookmarking sites. Moreover, only a limited number of micro-evaluations was carried out in this example, and we can expect the number of interesting links to increase further when the facility is used by a high number of students.
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