Social+Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking... what is it? First it is an online service that allows you to save your favorite web pages and then access them from anywhere in the world; needing only an Internet connection. This can be helpful on keeping your favorites just in case your computer crashes or you have it re-imaged (like we do in the summers). Secondly, social bookmarking allows you to share your bookmarks with friends and your co-workers. All they need to know is your user name. In this feature all you need to do is bookmark a good website and everyone in your social network can then see it and visit that site also. You can even send a bookmark specifically to another person if you think that they will like it our find it useful. This kind of service, social bookmarking, cuts down on e-mail because the service does all the work for you. The only things that you need to do are 1: click the link to add the page to your bookmarks, and 2: add tags to it.

Tags? Tags are simply put, keywords that help in sorting and searching through bookmarks. Keywords can be things like "fun", "education", "math", "skydiving".... Why should I tag bookmarks? Well, with say 5 - 10 bookmarks you can sift through them quite simply, but when we're talking about 30 - 80 or whatever, it takes a much longer time to sort through un-tagged bookmarks. They also help others who are trying to view your bookmarks. They may be interested in education and movies, but not really concerned with say sites dealing with scuba diving. In this way they can only look at the sites that are of interest to them.

Social Bookmarking sites
 * [|Del.icio.us] || This is a site that is incredibly easy to use. It installs a couple of buttons into your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox) that make bookmarking sites incredibly easy. ||
 * [|ikeepbookmarks] || This is a site similar to del.icio.us in the sense that it stores and shares your bookmarks with others. I think this site is a bit more complicated than del.icio.us but each person has their own tastes. ||
 * [|StumbleUpon] || This site is unfortunately blocked by the Lindbergh firewall because it incorporates a social networking feature, similar to Facebook or MySpace. However, I strongly reccomend this service to find really neat web sites that you are interested in. You simply create an account, fill out a profile that includes topics that you are interested in. Afterwards you install a few buttons into your web browser. Then all you need to do is click a green "SU" button and it brings up a random web page related to one of the topics that you said you were interested in. You can also rate the page with a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" and StumbleUpon adapts that to your search prefrences. Using this site in conjunction with say Del.icio.us or ikeepbookmarks is a great way to quickly expand your list of resources for whatever you're interesred in. ||

Please post here if you are willing to share your bookmarks / favorites with others.
 * Social Bookmarking User Names**
 * **User Name** || **Service** ||
 * ccollins01 || Del.icio.us ||