Social Bookmarking & Tagging: talk for IT Partners

Social bookmarking is a web based service, where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed. These systems usually categorize their resources by the use of informally assigned, user-defined keywords or tags.

A. Basic examples:

B. Academic applications: tools for bookmarking scholarly literature. These tools capture more detailed metadata from certain scholarly web sites and allow you to export citations into a bibliography following standard formats.

C. More social bookmarking sites:

  • Furl – a free service that saves a personal copy of any page you find on the web
  • Spurl – stores a copy of your page as it was when you first read it
  • Yahoo! My Web

D. Other tagging examples:

E. Further reading