What are social bookmarks?
We are all used to using bookmarks inbrowser to always have access to necessary or interesting web pages. But not always these bookmarks justify themselves: if we are sitting at someone else's computer, we do not have access to them. And when reinstalling the browser or system, there is a chance to lose the saved bookmarks. Therefore, there is an alternative to bookmarks in the browser - social bookmarks.Social bookmarking is an analogue of bookmarks to sites in the browser, the difference is that saved bookmarks are stored not on the hard disk of your computer, but on the server on the Internet. You can access your bookmarks from any computer that has Internet access.
Social bookmarking is convenient, that you always have access to links to necessary and interesting sites. You can not be afraid of losing all the bookmarks,acquired by excessive work, when reinstalling the browser or operating system. In addition, you have access to bookmarks that other users have saved.
To start using social bookmarks, you need to register on one of the social bookmarking services (we'll talk about them later). By creating an account, you can save links to websites and organize them using tags, categories or folders.
Many services allow users to join groups of interests and / or add each other as friends. Often there are privacy settings, i.e. you can choose who will see the bookmark: only you, your friends or all users.
Some services also allow you to save notes, information from sites (up to page copies) and download small files. Most services support import and export of bookmarks.
What social bookmarking services exist in RuNet? If you have an account on Yandex, you can use service Яндекс.Закладки. Its interface is very similar to the Yandex servicemail. Bookmarks can be distributed to folders, assign labels to them. There are options for sorting bookmarks, searching, exporting and importing, checking bookmarks for working capacity. But keep in mind that your bookmarks are automatically published in the blog on Ya.Ru (if you did not have it, it will be created automatically). So if you do not want to, you can disable automatic posting or make a bookmark visible only to you or your friends.
Social bookmarking offers and service БобрДобр. Adding bookmarks is throughSpecial form on the site or through the toolbar for the browser. When adding a link, you must enter the name and description of the site. To navigate the bookmarks there are tags (keywords). The system remembers your tags and automatically tells you when you save a new bookmark. Also, bookmarks can be organized by groups (private or public public). You can add users to friends, track new bookmarks of your friends, also have the opportunity to find out who their users are tracking your bookmarks.
What is different from previous services social bookmarking My Location? In addition to bookmarks on the site, you can store files,downloaded from a hard disk or from the Internet (the volume of a single file is up to 50 MB, the total volume is up to 500 MB, there are privacy options), and notes. There is a function for importing bookmarks not only from the browser, but also from other services. There are buttons for browsers, allowing you to quickly save a particular page in the bookmarks, there is also the possibility of saving a copy to the page. Well, already familiar features: privacy settings, tags, categories, sorting of bookmarks, the ability to add users to friends and join groups.
Of course, there are many more social bookmarking services, both domestic and foreign. This is Memori.ru, 100zakladok.ru, MyScoop, Mister Wong, Delicious (the first social bookmarks) and others.
Social bookmarking is a kind of hybrid service for maintaining links to websites and social networks. On some social bookmarking services, the emphasisis done for storage, for some - for communication and exchange of links. The final choice of service is for you, so be guided by your own needs.
