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A short selection of social bookmarking sites and related resources.
Trail link: http://www.trailfire.com/sgreenleaf/trails/21678
Summary: http://www.trailfire.com/sgreenleaf/trailview/21678
Summary: http://www.trailfire.com/sgreenleaf/trailview/21678
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A nice overview of the state of social bookmarking (as of Sept. 2006), this posting includes difference social bookmarking tools and compares their features.
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Social bookmarking (and other social web sites) rely on tags and tagging. Users identify relevant keywords or phrases that describe a site's content.
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Social bookmark pioneer, del.icio.us, allows registered users to bookmark sites of interest, add tags and notes, and see other users who have identified the same items. Users may also browse lists of popular sites and popular tags.
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Another option for social bookmarking, one feature of Ma.gnolia different from other social bookmarking tools is saving of thumbnail images of pages.
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Described as channel surfing for the Internet, StumbleUpon allows registered users to randomly hit pages identified in areas of interest. Users may also tag pages of interest and browse sites other users have tagged.
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Trailfire allows registered users to mark ages, comment on the pages, and subsequently link pages together to form trails. Trail URLs may then be shared by posting to a blog, web page or via email.
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A traffic graph from Alexaholic.com comparing site traffic for del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Ma.gnolia, and Trailfire.
