Folkd
Encyclopedia
folkd.com is a social bookmarking
and social news
website that has been founded in 2006 by Bastian Karweg out of Germany. The website has grown into one of biggest services of its kind and currently lists over 8 million public bookmarks by more than 500.000 users (as of Mai 2010). Folkd is available in 4 languages and also has a strong user base in India
. The site devotes itself to "enrich your websurfing experience" and also offers an IE and Firefox AddOn to collect, save and share bookmarks while surfing.
, which was made popular by Delicious (website), and voting on an item, that users know from the social news site digg
. Each user also gets a profile page where his most recent bookmarks are displayed, if not saved as "private".
, which is a major German news magazine. This allowes the user to directly social bookmark an article while reading it. This method now is also used by facebook
to spread its famous Like Button
.
Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them....
and social news
Social news
A social news website is a type of website that features user-submitted stories that are ranked based on popularity.-Slashdot:Slashdot, started in 1997, was one of the first social news websites. It focuses mainly on science and technology related news. Users can submit stories, and the editors...
website that has been founded in 2006 by Bastian Karweg out of Germany. The website has grown into one of biggest services of its kind and currently lists over 8 million public bookmarks by more than 500.000 users (as of Mai 2010). Folkd is available in 4 languages and also has a strong user base in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. The site devotes itself to "enrich your websurfing experience" and also offers an IE and Firefox AddOn to collect, save and share bookmarks while surfing.
social media techniques
The service offers the two most common social techniques of taggingTag (metadata)
In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...
, which was made popular by Delicious (website), and voting on an item, that users know from the social news site digg
Digg
Digg is a social news website. Prior to Digg v4, its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Digg's popularity prompted the creation of copycat social networking sites with story submission and voting systems...
. Each user also gets a profile page where his most recent bookmarks are displayed, if not saved as "private".
Integration of social bookmarking
Besides the Firefox addon, folkd is integrated natively as a bookmark-button into a lot of other websites e.g. like Spiegel OnlineSpiegel Online
Spiegel Online , the online version of German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, is one the most visited news websites written in the German language.- Company :...
, which is a major German news magazine. This allowes the user to directly social bookmark an article while reading it. This method now is also used by facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
to spread its famous Like Button
Like button
A like button or like option is a feature in communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums and blogs where the user can express that they like, enjoy or support a certain content. Internet services that feature like buttons usually display the quantity of users that...
.