Fifteen years ago there were just a few websites. People didn’t need to bookmark them because there weren’t too many of them and they were easy to remember.
A few years later, with more websites on more servers, most Internet browsers added a bookmarking feature. That way, you could bookmark those websites that you liked and find them later with little effort.
A couple of years ago, a new concept was born: social bookmarking . It’s a service that allows you to bookmark content, share it with the world and get recommendations about content that you might like based on what people with similar interests to yours have bookmarked.
But there’s a lot more to it. Communities have been built around social bookmarking. One person posts a link, people comment on it and a whole conversation starts around that topic.
What Are the Most Popular Social Bookmarking Services?
Some of the most popular social bookmarking services are Digg , Delicious , Reddit , Mixx and StumbleUpon . Other less popular social bookmarking sites are Diigo , Blinklist and Google Bookmarks .
You Need to Understand these Communities to Benefit from Them
The very first step to taking advantage of social bookmarking is to spend a few hours on some of the sites mentioned above. Get a feel for the kind of content people in these communities consume, promote and link to. You’ll notice a lot of tech-related content, controversial and funny videos, and other crazy stuff.
Author: Zeke Camusio
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