Abstract

Bookmarks have been available on every browser since the Web began. Whenever you come across an interesting page, instead of jotting down the address, you can simply click on a button to record it; and thereafter, every time you click on the bookmark (Internet Explorer calls it a ‘favourite’), you return to your site. Most users appreciate the convenience of bookmarking. But a single individual will only ever find a fraction of the sites that might be of interest. What a benefit it would be if one could see all the bookmarks that had been created by other, like-minded users. This is precisely what social bookmarking sets out to do. You join a community of users. When you find something interesting, you share it with them; and in return you get to see the bookmarks that they have created. The exact mechanism for doing this varies, and the services offered...

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