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Social bookmarking

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What makes social bookmarking so del.icio.us?

Social bookmarking is a way of tagging (bookmarking) your favorite web pages. The social part means that new software allows you to share your favorites with others- even with yourself from multiple computers. All you need to get started is a browser and an internet connection.

del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. You can use del.icio.us to:

Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.

Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.

Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite -- they've already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. Explore and enjoy.

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser. This has several advantages.

First, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer.

Second, you can share your bookmarks publicly, so your friends, coworkers, and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration, or anything else. (Note that you can also mark bookmarks on del.icio.us as private -- only viewable by you -- if you like.)

Third, you can find other people on del.icio.us who have interesting bookmarks and add their links to your own collection. Everyone on del.icio.us chooses to save their bookmarks for a reason. You have access to the links that everyone wants to remember. You can see whether two people have chosen to remember a link, or whether it was useful enough for a thousand people to remember -- which may help you find things that are useful for you, too.

What are tags?

Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks on del.icio.us. They're a little bit like keywords but non-hierarchical. You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like and easily rename or delete them later. Tagging can be a lot easier and more flexible than fitting your information into preconceived categories or folders.

Find out more about tags, including some examples and ideas about how you can use them:

tag your own papers with a specific tag (e.g. your username) to get a fast list of your 'production'
subscribe to tags that look interesting in a RSS feedreader
agree on a joint tag with others to create collaborative lists of resources or papers, see the 2020 conference page for example (the deli.cio.us list is here)

Other Social Bookmarking sites

Connotea

Free online reference management (more academic, good for bibliographic data as weel as websites)

Automatic Collection of Bibliographic Information: You can save any page on the web to your library, but Connotea will automatically fetch additional bibliographic information for pages saved from the following sources: