Social bookmarking allows users to store bookmarks online and share them with others, providing a better system for categorizing and discovering related bookmarks than traditional browser bookmarks. Popular social bookmarking sites like Delicious and Connotea use folksonomies, which are collaboratively created tags, to categorize bookmarked content. This facilitates sharing bookmarks and finding related content through assigned keywords. Social bookmarking can also drive increased traffic to bookmarked web pages.

1. Social Bookmarking Web 2.0: Why it matters and what you need to know a practical guide ALPSP Training Course London, April 2008

2. What is Social Bookmarking?

5. Browser Bookmarks Are Limited Hierarchical filing is awkward and limiting Can’t easily share with other computers (or people)

6. Solution? Provide better ways to categorize bookmarks Store bookmarks online not locally

7. Example

13. Isn’t That Anti-Social Bookmarking?

22. Folksonomy “the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.” -- Wikipedia

23. Popular Social Bookmarking Sites

24. del.icio.us

25. Connotea

26. CiteULike

27. 2collab

28. Integration

30. Summary

32. Questions?