Social+Bookmarking

=Social bookmarking=

A social bookmarking service provides users the ability to record (bookmark) web pages, and tag those records with significant words (tags) that describe the pages being recorded. A good example is [|del.icio.us]. Over time users build up collections of records with common tags, and users can search for bookmarked items by likely tags. Since items have been deemed worthy of being bookmarked and classified with one or more tags, social bookmarking services can sometimes be more effective than search engines for finding Internet resources. Users can find other users who use the same tag and who are likely to be interested in the same topic(s).

Users with common interests can be added to an individual’s own network to enable easy monitoring of the other users’ tagging activity for interesting items.

Examples of Educational Uses:
Teachers and learners can build up collections of resources, and with a little ingenuity can also use social bookmarking systems to bookmark resources that are not on the web.