Inside Social Bookmarking
Everything About Social Bookmarking

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) uses social networking tools to connect all the knowledge data.

It’s a perfect situation for taking social computing tools, such as online social networks and group communications tools like wikis and keyword tagging, and putting them to work as a form of knowledge management.

The challenge for those dealing with knowledge management (KM) has always been how to get information out of people’s heads and into a database. Social computing tools are a good solution, since they encourage people to share their knowledge with others, and that expertise can easily be captured for future reference.

This is one way that knowledge actually helps people in need. Hopefully, this will spread to other government offices so that everyone can contribute.

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ほとんどのソーシャル・ブックマーク・サービスはユーザーに非公式なタグを使い、自分のブックマークの整理をするよう奨励します。 サービスの幾つかはカテゴリーやフォルダーやタグの組み合わせを含みます。 これらのサービスは選択されたタグにリンクしたブックマークを公開し、何名のユーザーがブックマークしたかという情報も追加します。 その他のソーシャル・ブックマーキング・サービスはタグの関係から推測を導きます。 多くのソーシャル・ブックマーキング・サービスはブックマークのリストにウェブフィードを提供します。 購読者は新しいブックマークが保存され、他のユーザーにタグを付けられたことが分ります。オンラインブックマークの共有の歴史は1996年にさかのぼります。公的と私的なブックマークがありました。その他のサービスも3年以内に後を追いました。2003年に設立されたdel.icio.us はタグ付けを開始し、ソーシャルブックマーキングという用語を創りました。2006年にはMa.gnolia、Blue Dot、Diigoなどがブックマーキング分野に登場しました。そしてConnectbeamがソーシャル・ブックマーキングとタグ付けサービスを含みました。Digg、reddit、Newsvineというサイトはその後登場しました。

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It certainly is not a terrorist arsenal. VideoBomb is social site to bring people together and be able to share their videos and share opinions about other videos. You are able to offer your home made precious shots or simple artwork videos to a variety of audience. You can post them, comment on others’ works and tag them on the site. The Miro Internet TV platform is behind this wonderful piece of work. When you submit a video, it will appear in the ‘Incoming” page of the site. It is there that people will see your video, they will have the chance to view it, if they like it, they can put a star and then it will be added to their favorites list. If for a good reason your video is starred by a number of users, your video will be posted on the front page of the VideoBomb site. How cool can that be?

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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.