Social+Bookmarking

Online bookmarking systems have been around for about 14 years. Early on, they allowed users to have a place on the web to compile their favorite websites, so that they could be accessed anywhere with a computer and internet capability. Since the advent of Delicious, bookmarking has been kicked up a notch and now there are quite a few social bookmarking systems.

Now instead of just posting weblinks to a favorites list, users can choose to alert particular friends of colleagues when they do so. This might be one way for professionals or even avid hobbyists to keep up with each other. Also, by tagging favorites with descriptive words, people are creating "folksonomies" that effectively catalog the web. With these services you can search for other websites with the same tags as you've used. In addition, when you add a website, the service will tell you how many other people have bookmarked it and who they are. If you find an outstanding website that someone else has bookmarked, you might be interested in the other websites that person has found.

Some of the most well-known social bookmarking services are, Delicious, Diggo, and Google Bookmarks. Sandy uses "Delicious" and you can view her page at []. When you have the chance check out the other two services because each offers something a little different. Diggo has some nice features allowing users to highlight parts of web pages and attach "sticky notes" to them.