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What is Social Bookmarking?

According to wikipedia, **social bookmarking** is "a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the //resources// themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that //reference// them." Descriptions are added to social bookmarks in the form of metadata. Descriptions can include comments, votes, or tags. The comments, votes, tags and other collaborations regarding a social bookmark are called a folksonomy (as opposed to a taxonomy). Folksonomy is also called social tagging. According to Richardson, the idea is that in working with a community of researchers, new tagging systems will emerge and we therefore see how others might interpret or use the resources that we share.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

Richardson, Will, __Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms__, Corwin, 2010.