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Social
bookmarking is a method for internet users to store,
organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the
Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of
tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a
folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the
process by which many users add metadata in the form of
keywords to shared content".
In a social
bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they
want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually
public, and can be saved privately, shared only with
specified people or groups, shared only inside certain
networks or another combination of public and private
domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks
chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search
engine.
Most social
bookmark services encourage users to organize their
bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional
browser-based system of folders, although some services
feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and
tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a
chosen tag, and include information about the number of
users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking
services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags
to create clusters of tags or bookmarks. |
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