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Social Bookmarking Sites

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:57:20 +0000

Presently the biggest names in social bookmarking include (in alphabetical order)

Balatarin
BookmarkSync
CiteULike
Connotea
Delicious
Digg
Diigo
Faves
GiveALink.org
GroupMe!
IBM Lotus Connections
Jumper 2.0 Enterprise
Linkwad
Ma.gnolia
My Web
Mister Wong
Mixx
MSDN
Newsvine
Oneview
Propeller.com (earlier Netscape)
Reddit
Simpy
SiteBar
StumbleUpon
TechNet
Twine
Windows Live Favorites and Yattle.

Social bookmarking is superior in many ways to the search engine spiders working on automatic resource location and classification software, such as the faster speed of indexing and tagging done by a person as compared to the browser’s spider. Consolidation and organization of a number of bookmarks is better through social bookmarking as also sharing between contacts. Understanding source content is definitely better as the tag based classification is done by people rather than software. Another important point is that ranking of the resource is done based on number of bookmarks and not the number of links, resulting in proper weight-age being given for relevance and popularity. On the other hand there are the drawbacks like absence of standardized keywords or structure of tags, spelling errors leading to mismatches in tags or unorthodox and vague terms used for the tags.

Why Social Bookmarking

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:54:53 +0000

Anyone and everyone can participate in social bookmarking, whether they are individuals or corporations. It is not a complex mechanism and can be easily understood and learnt. It is most useful whenever there is a requirement to collect and share information with other individuals or groups of people having similar tastes and interests. It gives an opportunity for the users to comment, suggest alternatives or reinforce the information provided or express dissent. This becomes especially important while researching papers because seemingly unconnected links and tags can provide startling insights and discoveries. A ‘meeting of minds’ becomes possible, especially if the social bookmarking is done within closed / private groups of individuals. There is a drawback to this, because the values of the group may be skewed or biased against or for something, which may not be agreeable to another group of people or an individual. Another downside is that poor classification of tags or inconsistencies can lead to incomplete or disjointed information being made available on that site. Absence of hierarchical relationships for tags is another concern, although a number of these problems dissipate over time as the distribution of tags used to describe web resources tend to coalesce and a simple vocabulary emerges which is common across all users. There is also the headache of having to store and update information at another site for those using social bookmarking sites.

There are a number of reasons why social bookmarking is superior in many ways over the search engine spiders (which work on automatic resource location and classification software). These include the fact that speed of indexing and tagging is often done earlier by a person than the browser’s spider. Understanding and appropriateness of the source content is definitely better as the tag based classification is done by people rather than software. Consolidation and organisation of a number of bookmarks is better in social bookmarking as also sharing between contacts. Ranking of the resource is done based on number of bookmarks and not the number of links, resulting in proper weightage being given for relevance and popularity.

The resources for online services are undergoing dramatic changes and social bookmarking is a comparatively recent phenomenon. It is entirely possible that the experiences garnered from this concept the function and design of database will change to better manage data and information.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:51:02 +0000

Social bookmarking has a number of advantages over the traditional search engine spiders which work on automatic resource location and classification software:

Since actual people do the tag based classification of the web sites and not algorithmic software, the understanding of the resource content is likely to be much better and appropriate.
Often web spiders note and index web page much later than a person does. Also if the page does not conform to the algorithm, it is likely to be completely left out, though it may be very pertinent to include as a tag.
Ranking of internet resources by the number of bookmarks on a web page is often a more relevant metric for the visitor than the number of external links leading to it, which is most likely how a web spider is going to rank it.
Consolidation of bookmarks present on a number of computers, their organization and sharing among contacts is better when using social bookmarking services.

There are tons of Benefits when you implement Social Bookmarking to your website. Some of the benefits that worth mentioning include:

Instant Indexing: By submitting your webpage to the popular social bookmarking sites, the indexing process can be a lot faster. Why? Because these submissions allow your webpage to be crawled by Search Engine much faster. Positively, social bookmarking submission is the best bait to attract the search engine bots to your web pages.
Increase Traffic: If you think Social Bookmarking is all about getting your website indexed by the search engine, you are wrong! You are guaranteed to get some traffic from these social bookmarking sites. These traffic is highly targeted since bookmarking allows you to tag your web pages under certain niche keywords.
Branding: Some of the social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon for example gives you the flexibility of developing your own page on the site. If you a single entrepreneur, always use the same photo on every social bookmarking sites you’ve registered. For example our CEO, Nadzrul Jakarta uses this photo on every single social bookmarking account he created.

Technically you are branding yourself and not to mention getting one-way links to your sites. This is why buying backlinks is restricted by Google. Google doesn’t want you to be stupid, why would anyone spend hundreds of dollars on one-way link when you can get them for free? Many of these profile get high PR from Google, thus giving you a better opportunity of dominating your niche in search engine.

The Importance of Social Bookmarking

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:31:20 +0000

The importance of social bookmarking comes from the fact that it helps a person to get his or her webpage to be viewed and shared all across the internet and become everyone’s favourite. An informative, well researched and well written article, blog or web site can quite easily achieve omnipresence on the net. Research has shown that even with the advent of so many social bookmarking sites, a large number of people who use the internet regularly (almost 20%) still use the favourites tab on their computers to add and list their favourite web pages. While this traffic is very valuable, especially because of its repetitive nature, it just goes to prove that there are a lot of possibilities in converting these users to any one or more of the numerous social bookmarking sites, currently led by Delicious and StumbleUpon. It is only after connecting their website / blog page to a social bookmarking website can a user appreciate the full advantage of it and even monetarily gain from the increased traffic.

The social bookmarking system enables a person to categorise web resources and organising information in a more efficient manner than could be done earlier. Here the internet user saves links to web pages that they want to share or simply to remember. It may seem amateurish, but it enables a person to connect with like minded people looking for the same or similar information or resources, thereby creating a social group. The bookmarks are in the public domain but these can be saved privately by an individual or shared between select people, which again makes it private.

The importance of social bookmarking comes from a number of inherent features. For instance, instead of using browser folders, providers of these services use the more informal tags (or a combination) and allows gathering of information about how many users have bookmarked a particular tag and also to view these bookmarks. Tag relationships actually lead to creation of clusters of tags and bookmarks, allowing ease of use. Sharing, tagging or saving of new bookmarks helps the millions of users who access these to get very specific information and this is helped by the web feeds provided by most of the bookmarking services. In fact even more user friendly functions are now available, such as emailing of bookmarks, also their ratings and comments on them. Web annotation and import / export of bookmarks are also possible.

Many people use social bookmarking to get traffic to their websites. This is done by posting links to your site or blog from the social networking websites by using tags or keywords to categorise the bookmark. With the increasing popularity of social bookmarking services, the opportunities and benefits that can be derived from it also increases. And as the bookmarking is done by physical people, as opposed to software, the relevance of the matter also increases substantially.