What is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking web sites allow you to save your personal bookmarks to a public site and assign keywords or “tags” to them. Because your bookmarks are on a public web site, you can easily share them with others. This can be very useful for group research projects. Because your bookmarks are tagged, you can easily search your bookmarks by keywords that are meaningful to you. Social bookmarking sites also aggregate tags, showing how many people are using popular tags; this makes it easy to discover new websites by looking at what other people are tagging.
Popular social bookmarking sites:
De.licio.us – one of the first – began in 2003
Connotea – a social bookmarking site for science, created by the Nature Publishing Group
CiteULike – an open source academic bookmarking site. Exports bookmarks in BibTex format.
Social Bookmarking Resources from Berkman Center for Internet & Society
