Transcript Social Bookmarking - Santosh Devbhandari

College for Professional Studies
Topic : Social Bookmarking
Name
: Santosh Devbhandari
Course and Sem : B.Sc. IT 4th SEM
Agenda
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History of Social Bookmarking
What is Social Bookmarking?
What are Tags?
What To Bookmark?
Best Practice of Social Bookmarking
Benefits Of Social Bookmarking
Drawbacks of Social Bookmarking?
Popular Social Bookmarking
Website
How to Add Websites?
History
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The concept of social bookmarking
dates back to April 1996 when
tList.com was launched.
Followed by web sites like Backflip,
Blink, Clip2, Hotlink and Quiver .
The new era begins in 2005-2006.
The first wave: del.icio.us, Furl and
Simpy
The second wave Diigo, Netvouz,
Ma.gnolia and Stumble Upon.
What is Social Bookmarking?
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Store
Organize
Share
Comment on
Highlight
What are tags?
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Keywords that you use to
describe a bookmark.
Can be renamed or
deleted at any time.
Can use as many as we
like.
Can be categorized for
easy reference.
Tags
What To Bookmark
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Every page of our website.
Bookmarking our best content – blogs, articles, videos,
and so on.
We can share content with other users around the web.
Best Practice of Social Bookmarking
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Always bookmark good stuff
Bookmark frequently
Bookmark new stuff
Don’t focus on one topic only
Comments on other people’s bookmark
Benefits Of Social Bookmarking
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Getting higher ranking in search
engines
Increasing the traffic
Provides an easy way to share
bookmarks with our contacts
Save and store all our bookmarks
online and keep them in one place
For people who use multiple
computers in various locations
Drawbacks of Social Bookmarking
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No standard set of key words.
Some tags can be unclear or have multiple meanings
No mechanism to indicate hierarchical relationships
between tags.
Popular Social Bookmarking Website
How to Add Websites
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Go to Diigo.com
How to Add Websites
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Create your account
How to Add Websites
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Go to your Mail ID & verify your account
How to Add Websites
How to Add Websites
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Add a Bookmark
How to Add Websites
Link to Web site
Bookmark number
Description or notes
Tags