Social+Bookmarking

What is Social Bookmarking?
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. (Source:[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking)]
 * 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].

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PMI on Social Bookmarking
Plus - Can keep track of your bookmarks on any internet connected computer, can post bookmarks for someone else (collaborative research), follow other people's research thoughts Minus - can be distracting Interesting - social networking and collaboration opportunities abound

Examples of Social Bookmarking
http://del.icio.us/ my del.icio.us account - how it looks - [] (follow me)

"7 Things You Should Know About... Social Bookmarking" addresses a community—or social—approach to identifying and organizing information on the Web. Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks one would normally make in a Web browser to a public Web site and "tagging" them with keywords. The community-driven, keyword-based classifications, known as "folksonomies," may change how we store and find information online. (Source: [])