Social Bookmarking Explained

Social bookmarking is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Working together as these bookmark collections serve as a rich data source for the Open Tag Directory.

What other people are saying about Social Bookmarking

What is social bookmarking?: Social bookmarking is
optimized for documenting and
sharing lists of links to
useful information. In
contrast, blogs are optimized
for creating and sharing
content, allowing for
commentary while keeping the
original content intact. ...

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How To Get Your Social Bookmarks Ranking: Even if it takes you countless
working hours a day doing just
social bookmarking your blog,
hubs, lenses, etc., you will
never get the results you
desire if it is not done
properly. Bookmarking should
not take most of your time if
you ...

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Sphinn Puts Social Bookmarking In A Spin: Sphinn has joined the ranks of
several other social
bookmarking sites by placing
nofollow?s on all new links
placed in the ?upcoming
topics? area. Some SEO experts
swear by social bookmarking
sites for link building
strategies - they ...

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Why the Open Tag Directory was created

Websites such as Yahoo and DMOZ have shown the value of both human editorial and the traditional web directory model. With the growing popularity of social bookmarking and tagging websites we became curious if all these "tags" could be leveraged as raw editorial data. Being the curious sort we decided to develop this web application to test our idea.