Social Bookmarking

A social bookmarking service is a online Service which Enables Blog Or Website Users to add, edit, and share bookmarks of Web/Blog documents. A Huge online Bookmark Management Services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, Famous the terms "Social Bookmarking" and "Tagging". Tagging is a significant feature of social bookmarking systems, enabling users to organize their Bookmarks in Movable ways and Developing shared vocabulary known as folksonomies.

The concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to April 1996 with the launch of itList, the features of which including Public and Private Bookmarks. Within the next three years, Online Bookmark Services Became competative, with BlinkList, and Many others entering the market. They Gave folders to organizing Bookmarks, and some services Automatically Stored bookmarks into folders . Blinklist include browser buttons for saving bookmarks; Backflip to email their bookmarks to others. Lacking viable revenue moduls, this early generation of Social Bookmarking Companies failed as the dot-com bubble burst — 21st century". In 2005, the founder of Blinklist said, "I don't think it was that we were 'too early' or that we got killed when the bubble burst. I believe it all came down to product design, and to some very slight differences in approach."

Founded in 2003, Delicious (then called del.icio.us) Tagging and coined the Term Social Bookmarking. Frassle, a blogging system released in November 2003, included social bookmarking elements. In 2004, as Delicious begun to take off, similar services Furl, Simpy, Spurl.net, and unalog were released, along with CiteULike and Connotea (sometimes called social citation services) and the related recommendation system Stumbleupon. Also in 2004, the social photo sharing website Flickr was released, and inspired by Delicious it soon added a tagging feature. In 2006, Ma.gnolia , Blue Dot (later renamed to Faves), Mister Wong, and Diigo entered the bookmarking field, and Connectbeam included a social bookmarking and tagging service aimed at businesses and enterprises. In 2007, IBM released its Lotus Connections product. In 2009, Pinboard launched as a bookmarking service with paid accounts. As of 2012, Furl, Simpy, Spurl.net, Gnolia, Faves, and Connectbeam are no longer active services.

Digg was founded in 2004 with a related system for sharing and ranking social news, followed by competitors Reddit in 2005 and Newsvine in 2006. As of 2011, both Digg and Reddit are ranked in the top 300 websites in terms of web traffic by Alexa.com.

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