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Social bookmarking
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....

websites allow Internet users to organize and store bookmarks to online resources.

The sites provide folksonomy

Folksonomy

A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging...

-based tagging, sharing features, web feed

Web feed

A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator...

s, and bookmarklet

Bookmarklet

A bookmarklet is Unobtrusive JavaScript stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. The term is a portmanteau of the terms bookmark and applet, however, an applet is not to be confused with a bookmarklet just as JavaScript is not to be confused with Java...

s to easily add entries. Users can access their bookmarks from any computer.

Name	Description	Web address
Balatarin Balatarin Balatarin is a community website through which users can post links to the webpages of their interest, with an emphasis on Iranian audience. Although only registered users can post links to Balatarin, registration is free...	Iranian community website. Named second most popular Persian website by Internet magazine 7 Sang in 2008.	Balatarin
BibSonomy BibSonomy BibSonomy is a social bookmarking and publication-sharing system. It aims to integrate the features of bookmarking systems as well as team-oriented publication management...		bibsonomy.org
BookmarkSync BookmarkSync BookmarkSync is an automatic synchronization service that allows users to access their bookmarks or favorites from any computer or any web browser. The BookmarkSync client runs as a small program within the computer's system tray and monitors the bookmarks in the user's browser, automatically...		bookmarksync.com
CiteULike CiteULike CiteULike is based on the principle of social bookmarking and is aimed to promote and to develop the sharing of scientific references amongst researchers. In the same way that it is possible to catalog web pages or photographs , scientists can share information on academic papers with specific...		citeulike.org
Connotea Connotea Connotea is a free online reference management service for scientists, researchers, and clinicians, created in December 2004 by Nature Publishing Group...	Free reference management for clinicians and scientists	connotea.org
Delicious	Rumored to eventually be closed by Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,... , the site was instead sold to Avos Systems AVOS Systems AVOS Systems, Inc., is an Internet company founded by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. In April 2011, it was announced AVOS purchased Delicious, with the transition occurring in June 2011.... on April 27, 2011. Yahoo! will operate the site until July 2011.	delicious.com
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...		digg.com
Diigo Diigo Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within...	Diigo (digest of Internet information, groups, and other stuff) is a free online tool designed not only to bookmark web pages in one convenient location, but to highlight key points for easy reference. The site makes it easy to share and comment on resources with colleagues whether in an academic setting or in a working environment.	diigo.com
Faves		faves.com
folkd Folkd 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...		folkd.com
GiveALink.org GiveALink.org GiveALink is a non-commercial social bookmarking website. It is an academic research project, started at Indiana University Bloomington, with the goal of analyzing the structure and content of bookmark files in order to build a new generation of Web mining techniques and new ways to search,...		givealink.org
HeyStaks HeyStaks HeyStaks is a social search company. It works via an iPhone mobile app , an Android mobile app , an iPad app and an Android tablet app The service is based on the notion of users communities...	Social and collaborative bookmarking. Heystaks helps users to improve their search experience suggesting better results.	HeyStaks.com
Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza, also referred to as KP, is an Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management tool which provides a balance between social bookmarking, document management, wikis and an internal social network...	Enterprise bookmarking Enterprise bookmarking Enterprise bookmarking is a method for Enterprise 2.0 users to tag, organize, store, and search bookmarks of both web pages on the Internet and data resources stored in a distributed database or fileserver... tool for all information formats: not only websites (like Delicious), but also documents, contacts, e-mails, discussions, book references and wikis.	knowledgeplaza.net
Licorize Licorize Licorize is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages and parts of pages' contents. Additionally all bookmarks and can be contextually classified as to-do's, reminders, ideas, and each of these types has a different layout and behaviour. Licorize...	Bookmarking tool which integrates bookmarking with to-do management and Getting Things Done Getting Things Done Getting Things Done is an organizational method created by productivity consultant David Allen, described in a book of the same name.... styled tools.	licorize.com
Linkwad Linkwad Linkwad is a free community-based social bookmarking service provided exclusively for Mozilla's Firefox web browser, as an add-on....		linkwad.com
Microsoft TechNet	Technical information, news, and events for information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... professionals.	technet.microsoft.com
Mister Wong Mister Wong Mister Wong is one of the largest European free social-bookmarking web services.-History:The website was a German startup, established in 2006. Kai Tietjen had been running an ad agency for nearly a decade, when, in March 2006, he entered the field of web entrepreneurship with the idea to "take on...		mister-wong.com
Microsoft Developer Network
My Web My Web My Web was a social bookmarking website launched by Yahoo! in June 2005. It allowed users to bookmark a web page, along with a description, either just for him/herself, for selected contacts or for everyone. The user could also add tags so that other users could search for tags and see the...
Newsvine Newsvine Newsvine is a community-powered, collaborative journalism news website, owned by msnbc.com, which draws content from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources such as The Associated Press...
Oneview Oneview oneview is an English and German-speaking application for social bookmarking. The platform has already been brought into being from the multimedia-agency Denkwerk in 1998 and is therefore one of the first providers for social bookmarking worldwide...
Pinboard	Social networking site with functions similar to the original Delicious. Not free, there is a one-time signup fee.	pinboard.in
Reddit Reddit reddit is a social news website where the registered users submit content, in the form of either a link or a text "self" post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down," which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page.Reddit was originally...		reddit.com
SiteBar SiteBar SiteBar is a free online bookmark manager that is available in more than 20 languages. Users can store their bookmarks on a private or public SiteBar server, access them online, and share them with multiple user groups...		sitebar.org
Squidoo Squidoo Squidoo is a community website that allows users to create pages for subjects of interest. Squidoo had 1.5 million hand-built lenses .-History:Development on Squidoo started in 2005, launching a beta testing period in October of that year...		[This link has been blocked by Wikipedia]
StumbleUpon StumbleUpon StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles.Toolbar versions exist for...		stumbleupon.com
Twine Twine (website) Twine is an online, social web service for information storage, authoring and discovery. Created by Radar Networks, the service was announced on October 19, 2007 and made open to the public on October 21, 2008. On March 11, 2010, Radar Networks was acquired by Evri Inc...
Windows Live Favorites Windows Live Favorites Windows Live Favorites was a part of Microsoft's Windows Live range of services. It allowed users to access and edit their favorites from any computer...
Xmarks	Synchronise all your bookmarks in different browsers	xmarks.com

Defunct sites

Name	Description	Web address
Gnolia (formerly Ma.gnolia)
Simpy Simpy Simpy was a web-based personal and social bookmarking service.The service launched in May 2004. In 2010, it was acquired by Reuters and ceased operation as a social bookmarking site in April of that year.- Service features :... (formerly de.lirio.us)

Defunct sites

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