Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking websites serve a purpose of enabling internet users to store their favourite internet bookmarks and share them among friends and a massive network of users who share the same interests.
Favourite website bookmarks are not the only thing that can be stored and made available amongst the social bookmarking communities either; you can also share links to popular news article, funny videos, shopping bargains, RSS feeds and much, much more.
Digg
Digg is a social bookmarking website entirely dedicated to allowing the visitors to essentially become the editors and decide, as a community, which news articles that are submitted should be deemed worthy of a front page listing. Digg has a mostly gaming, technology, politics and science based focus on news.
News articles are submitted by members in the hopes of reaching front page status through a community based ranking system known as “diggs”.
del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website; the primary function of del.icio.us is to store and manage your favourite bookmarks online. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.
You may also wish to use del.icio.us to see what links your friends find interesting, too, and just what other people bookmark, and share your favourites with them.
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon helps you to discover fantastic new websites and share with others. StumbleUpon delivers high-quality pages matched to your own personal preferences.
All websites have been highly recommended by other eager web surfers with similar interests to yours. You are encouraged to review and rate websites that you may StumbleUpon and share them with like-minded people.
Google Bookmarks
Google recently jumped aboard the social bookmarking bandwagon by introducing their very own Google Bookmarks system that allows users to create, organize and share their very own bookmarks however you please.
While Google’s Google Bookmarks debut wasn’t quite as revolutionary as everyone might have hoped - their efforts certainly aren’t anything to overlook and if you’re new to the whole social bookmarking scene, Google Bookmarks is a great place to get started and learn the ropes.
Furl
Furl is a free social bookmarking service provided by the good folks at LookSmart Ltd. that allows you to save all your important links from across the internet so that you never lose them.
Furl creates a cosy little archive for you in order for you to navigate your list(s) of favourite websites and generally makes your social bookmarking life a whole lot easier.
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