Book marking Sites for Curious Students
Posted on June 20th, 2009 in Uncategorized No Comments »
Book marking websites, especially the social book marking sites are becoming more popular as days pass by. Such sites allow internet users to manage, store, search and arrange bookmarks on the internet and Categorize them using metadata in the form of tags or keywords. These bookmarks are made for everyone’s use but can be privately saved or shared only with specific of people[such people can either be friends or family members], shared only between specific networks or in a combination of private and public domains.
Most book marking websites provides its users with web feeds and allows them to view their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized using metadata or tags. Thus subscribers can look for new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other internet users and thus enabling users to search, Obtain and bookmark web pages that have not yet been discovered or indexed by the so called web spiders.
Most social book marking sites have made great effort to improve the services they offer to clients as the demand for their services continue to increase. In an attempt to meet the growing needs of customers, extra features have been provided; such as comments and ratings on bookmarks, web annotation, the ability to receive and send bookmarks from other browsers, emailing of bookmarks, and other numerous social network features.
The most popular known sites are as follows; Blogmarks.net-A social book marking site with thumb nails and atom enabled; de.lirio.us which has extra features, such as, tagging, blogging and notes; feed marker site which provides its users a book mark manager and a free, RSS/ATOM aggregator which is integrated in to your web page. ; The Frassel site helps browsers to read, publish, and find book marks and publish web log.
Then we have the brand new FuzzFizz social book marking site with was voted [by its users] as the most interesting site and one of the social book marking sites which provides the best news The Connectedy book mark website is well known for its pseudonymous online libraries which allow users to create arbitrary categorical rankings on their links from which users can choose the specific links and categories to either keep private or make public.
Then we have the Yahoo Search which is not yet popular but has a search engine which integrates social book marking with search. There are numerous social book marking sites available, the list is endless but students should be able to visit some of the sites mentioned in