The Social Web Part 2: Social Bookmarking Services

In the beginning there was the web. People stored their bookmarks locally. Then the netgods said: “Let there be tags!”, and social bookmarking emerged. Or something like that.

Social bookmarking is a simple thing. You store your bookmarks (or favorites, if you prefer that term) online and give them a couple of tags, which help you to remember why you stored them in the first place. You can then search your bookmarks for these tags. You can also search through other user’s public bookmarks and look which sites are widely favored - hence the word “social”.

My Top 5

Del.icio.us

he dinosaur. It’s been there for quite some time and has a huge following. If your looking for a big community, this one is for you. It’s not the most powerful, but it does what it’s supposed to do, without a fuss.

Furl

Also one of the older services, and it shows. Bookmarks are easy to handle and edit. When you bookmark a site, Furl stores a copy of it. Nothing spectacular, but reliable.

Ma.gnolia

Pretty much standard in it’s features and doesn’t even have a browser add-on. The only real reasons why I listed it here: Groups are well implemented, and I like the clean and extremely well structured design.

Netvouz

Seriously lacking in the social department, but has one thing that make it shine: A link checker. Shouldn’t that be a standard for an online bookmarking service? If you’re just looking for a way to store your bookmarks online for yourself, Netvouz is worth checking out.

Blinklist

What Netvouz lacks, is Blinklist’s big plus – the community. Other than that, I don’t see anything special about it.

If you want to submit your posts to several of these services at once, you should take look at OnlyWire.

I know there are a lot of other social bookmarking services, but these are the ones I have tried and found handy.

The Social Web Series
Part 1 - Social News Sites
Part 2 - Social Bookmarking
Part 3 - Blog Communities
Part 4 - StumbleUpon

Update: If you find that my Top 5 are not enough for you, head over to Arsenal Marketing for a list of 139 Social Media Sites including pagerank. If that’s not enough, you should really seek professional help.

31 Responses to “The Social Web Part 2: Social Bookmarking Services”

MorganLighter on June 21st, 2007 at 9:18 pm

Thanks for parts 1 and 2. Can’t wait for #3. And thanks for laying it out in such an easy to understand fashion - those that are newbies will be able to follow with no problem. Great job!
Tobsy on June 22nd, 2007 at 12:26 am

You’re welcome. Part 3 should be ready soon
April on July 19th, 2007 at 7:53 pm

I always use onlywire. The thought of not having it any more would just be awful.
Faimous on August 9th, 2007 at 6:13 am

And if you like, please do stop by Faimous.com - it’s a social search engine/forum/bookmarking site, with a twist, we hope. It’s still in its developmental stages, but would truly appreciate feedback and comments - especially since your standards are high and you seem to know exactly what you want out of these sites.

Thank you!
Panc on January 23rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm

I knew del.icio.us but I didn’t know others.Thanks.
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Since then, social bookmarking had become very popular.
Many bloggers utilize them for gaining traffic.
Quite interesting to see these unfold.
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Social bookmarking is very good for getting websites indexed, and I use them a lot to run my blog network. Didn’t know some of the ones on the list thought, thanks.
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dm2 on September 16th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

delicious and furl is very good, don’t forget to add diigo.com and wink.com….very good result
christmas scrapbook cards on November 18th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

I too like furl, not a big delicious fan though.
colon on January 12th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Thanks again! Keep it up!
Kayak on January 27th, 2009 at 8:40 am

I have some idea about Furl.But as you described about others I’ll also try.Thanks for sharing.
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Nice list, I use all of them to bookmark my articles i also use Jumptags.com, Backflip.com and Mixx.com, they are dofollow and have lots of users.

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ShellMedia on April 9th, 2009 at 9:16 pm

Delicious (del.icio.us!) is the only one I use regularly.
brain on April 10th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

I have to say the social book marking works. I’ve been using onlywire.com but I think I don’t really get how to use the other one you mentioned. BTW I hadn’t heard of Qualitycontent.net until I read one of the comments above. What a cool service?
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Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, “the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content”.
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Social Networking Software on February 12th, 2010 at 4:26 pm

Great list of sites, I use Digg and Reddit for my social bookmarks personally. I have also started using some of the social networking sites as a form of bookmarking ie- Twitter Lists.