College for Professional Studies

Topic : Social Bookmarking

Name : Santosh DevbhandariCourse and Sem : B.Sc. IT 4th SEM

Agenda

History of Social Bookmarking What is Social Bookmarking? What are Tags? What To Bookmark? Best Practice of Social Bookmarking Benefits Of Social Bookmarking Drawbacks of Social Bookmarking? Popular Social Bookmarking

Website How to Add Websites?

History

The concept of social bookmarking dates back to April 1996 when tList.com was launched.

Followed by web sites like Backflip, Blink, Clip2, Hotlink and Quiver .

The new era begins in 2005-2006. The first wave: del.icio.us, Furl and

Simpy The second wave Diigo, Netvouz,

Ma.gnolia and Stumble Upon.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Store Organize Share Comment on Highlight

What are tags?

Keywords that you use to describe a bookmark.

Can be renamed or deleted at any time.

Can use as many as we like.

Can be categorized for easy reference.

Tags

What To Bookmark

Every page of our website.Bookmarking our best content – blogs, articles, videos, and so on.We can share content with other users around the web.

Best Practice of Social Bookmarking

Always bookmark good stuff Bookmark frequently Bookmark new stuff Don’t focus on one topic only Comments on other people’s bookmark

Benefits Of Social Bookmarking

Getting higher ranking in search enginesIncreasing the trafficProvides an easy way to share bookmarks with our contactsSave and store all our bookmarks online and keep them in one placeFor people who use multiple computers in various locations

Drawbacks of Social Bookmarking

No standard set of key words. Some tags can be unclear or have multiple meanings No mechanism to indicate hierarchical relationships

between tags.

Popular Social Bookmarking Website

How to Add Websites

Go to Diigo.com

How to Add Websites

Create your account

How to Add Websites

Go to your Mail ID & verify your account

How to Add Websites

How to Add Websites

Add a Bookmark

How to Add Websites Link to Web site Bookmark number Description or notes

Tags