Inside Social Bookmarking
Everything About Social Bookmarking

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The Fast Icon has recently released a collection of 12 free ware icons called “Social Bookmark Icons”. The icon collection designed in resemblance with the Apple’s iPhone-like style, includes icons for Blinklist, BlogMarks, Delicious, Digg, Feeds, Flickr, Furl, Magnolia, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon and Technorati. All the available icons are sized from 16X16 to 512X512 pixels. A great and useful tool for blogs. Social Bookmark Icons is now ready for download as standard Mac or Windows icons and it also is a handy PNG file for Linux, Web and blogs.

Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags. Some services include categories or a combination of folders and tags. They allow viewing bookmarks linked with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Other social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags. Many of the social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks. Subscribers become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved and tagged by other users.The history of shared online bookmarks dates back to 1996. The features of which included public and private bookmarks. Others followed suit within the next three years. Founded in 2003, del.icio.us pioneered tagging and coined the term social bookmarking. In 2006, Ma.gnolia, Blue Dot, and Diigo entered the bookmarking field, and Connectbeam included a social bookmarking and tagging service. Sites such as Digg, reddit, and Newsvine came afterwards.

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What is Social Bookmarking exactly? When you file a site in your bookmark list, anyone looking for that identical type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the rubbish.

One of the other great features about these bookmarking sites is that your social bookmarks are with you wherever you go and not just on your own computer. Also with Social Bookmarking, there are many different types of online communities that you can join and most will help you get a certain amount of traffic to your site. Social bookmarking is a way of showing what interests you share with the rest of webkind.
By organizing your bookmarks online; you can help yourself getting organized or getting your contents exposed and it also help others at the same time to find a great content. All social bookmarking sites have a list or cloud of the tags created by users - and each user has an individual page with his or her own tags. Social bookmarking sites also help you to meet other people who are interested in the same topics you are and who may also have knowledge of web resources that you don’t know about.

Social bookmarking, or using tags to organize web pages into a publicly viewable archive online, is becoming increasingly common among nonprofit organizations and supporting technologists. Social bookmarking tools are preferable to browser bookmarks or favorites in a number of ways, including accessibility from any computer, superior detail in archiving and retrieval and the ability to share our bookmarks as a whole or by tag with other people.

Social bookmarking helps a lot in providing exposure to your site. Sharing a few comments and showing off what you have or even simply wanting to share something you came across on the web goes a long way.

Social bookmarking can help your site or make you a referrer to a site that you love to visit. Either way, you are sharing information over the web and helping people needing it in the process. Comments and reactions are important as well. Insights are something important since not all information on the web will always bring positive remarks especially from the critics.

In an unprecedented move by Yahoo to resurrect the company after the failed negotiations with Microsoft regarding the future of the firm, Yahoo Inc. has signed a deal with its previous rival Google signed an agreement to boost Yahoo’s online ad revenues by allowing them to place ads on Yahoo’s site. This gives social bookmarking a bigger area of cover that was previously owned by either of the two. Combining their resources allows better reach and offers another blow to Microsoft who is desperate for a piece of the Ad market that Google dominates. The move by Microsoft to obtain Yahoo was in hopes of getting a search engine company on the side of the software giant. The failure of negotiations, which was closely followed by the whole world resulted in much discontent with Yahoo and disbelief from Microsoft that even they couldn’t use muscle to get their hands on the search engine company. The power of Microsoft is decreasing day by day and their days as one of the most influential software giant is truly numbered.

Being dependent to online information sources for many years, doing a simple search gives you fast results in milliseconds but determining the relevance of those presented sites would take a lot of time, time that is wasted as you go from page to page selecting (bookmarking) the relevant ones and passing up the useless ones (a couple of hours if you aim to get the best of the best).
Then comes social bookmarking, which in essence reverses the process of looking for news and getting them to look for you or go to you. Social bookmarking allows changes to your favorite web pages to be sent directly onto your own web site. Less searching but more of the latest facts brought to you without you doing anything. RSS feeds are some of the simplest bookmarking techniques that send the information to you as they come. It assures that you never miss information that you need each time and every time.

Ever since the internet went online and available to the public, people have been looking for a better way of getting information and presenting them to users who are increasing day by day. That brought about the advent of the search engine wars where many online companies started to index and store the most amount of information to present it to their users. Then came spam, malware loaded sties and fake web sites that presents relevant titles but not the right information. Anti-viruses provided temporary relief for a couple of years then the malware numbers became so much that nobody can develop an ultimate prevention and solution to the online threat.

Having the knowledge in today’s world is simply no enough anymore for people seek for more evidence or basis from words and the internet has made that a reality. Information truly is just a few clicks away and the truth about the claims of an individual can be verified amongst the may fraudulent claims elsewhere on the web. Social bookmarking allows you to not only gather enough information from all over but it allows you to get that information out to other people who may be seeking for the same information like you. Doing so and establishing yourself as an expert in your field of expertise builds-up your readership thus making you visible in the world of social networks. There are experts and there are experts and what’s stopping you from being one on your own terms?

This is a common occurence in the marketplace for as history tells us, ther most successful products are the ones that get the most exposure and utilize the best ad campaigns and people who are the best in their field. Getting people to do the advertising for your products is one of the best outcomes of the social weeb that has truly revolutionized the internet giving people power to express views and reviews of products they love and buy. They can even add comments to the purchases (trends) other people create which leads to the discover of hidden flaws and more innovative products. Many start-up’s are beginning to utilize the web in ways that would only be unimaginable a few years back. The rogues of the internet (open-sourced community) made up of who else but by people and developers who want to break out of the cage big businesses have put up around us have succeeded in doing so leaving many industry giants way behind.