Social Bookmarks

Social Bookmarks are simply Internet bookmarks, by multiple users on a shared server in the Internet or intranet which are stored so that they to can share access to the bookmarks in exchanges. Access to the social bookmark service is standard with a Web browser, for some services, there are also special browser extensionsto facilitate operation.

It also treats this from the Community indexing of Internet resources. These are commonly called social bookmark networks used mainly for links and news items to collect.

Social Bookmark Providers and Functions

One of the biggest players in the English section include Delicious (formerly del.icio.us), Digg, StumbleUpon and Microsoft. There are also purely German-language services, such as Linkarena and Oneview. Mister Wong offers the German surface a service in English also. The German representatives to "bookmark" messages have specialized in particular, consist of short news, Webnews or YiGG. In addition, in the German-speaking, smaller portals such as scoop.at in Austria developed a country-specific news relating to the fore deliberately set.

Users can add their own social bookmarks, delete, rate, comment, or with categories or keywords (English tags) provided. They also have access to the bookmarks of other users, the collection can be taken in their own. Social Bookmarks can be depending on the service by entering key words, combinations of keywords, categories, users and search list. Moreover, in many cases, a list of all users recently saved bookmarks on the home page and a list of favorite links. Each of these lists can be through a RSS feed track. Most providers of social bookmarks offer a collection of thematically related links and related tags. Other features that will not work for all providers there are, group functions, e-mail and networking between individual users, import and export of bookmarks, files, and search toolbars and extensions for various browsers.

Open Source Social Bookmark Solutions

There are a number of open source solutions to social bookmarks, the server can be installed on the own, for example, Unalog, Connotea, Scuttle or Pligg. With the CMS Joomla can also create a bookmark service.