The social bookmark train
Social bookmarking 101; The Best, The Worst and The Beneficial
Social bookmarking is defined as the ability to save online favorites and share them with others across the world. With the arrival of Web 2.0 social bookmarking has become one of the most popular past times on the internet. It allows one to connect with whats happening on the web and beam it along to a sea of other online users. Well today I’m going to show how you can use it to your advantage, whatever your agenda may be. This post will most likely consist of more than one part which will all depend on how much I can write before I run out of ideas. I will probably edit in parts later on. It will contain main categories along with sub categories. Something like this;
Title
Intro
> Category 1
> sub 1
> sub 2
> sub 3
> Category 2
etc.
So, lets start.
Current leaders in social bookmarking:
There are countless web 2.0 type websites popping up, however there are only a handful of leaders in the social bookmark game. These include the all time favorites such as Digg and Delicious and the more recent but EXTREMELY popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed. Each website/service has their own benefits and nifty little features that allow it to become slightly more unique than the one before it.
Digg:
Digg, created by Kevin Rose and friends is a website that allows its users to discover and share content from anywhere on the internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site’s cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page.
Digg’s success has prompted many other social network sites to take on the idea of the voting and submission of stories and content.
Twitter:
Twitter gives users the ability to keep track of what their friends are doing by means of little 140 character messages also known as “tweets”. Similar to Facebook’s status update feature twitter intends to answer the question “What are you doing?”. Every twitter user is allowed to the send out status update tweets as frequently as desired and anyone else who desires can subscribe to your ‘twitterstream’, hence getting notified of all your updates.
Simply put, Twitter can be summed up as “Micro Blogging”
FriendFeed:
Another new competitor in the social bookmarking war, FriendFeed acts as a feed aggregator which incorporates the feeds of all the major social bookmark sites. FriendFeed allows users to keep track of ALL their accounts on ALL their social sites with a click of a button. Founded by former Google employees FF currently supports a range of different social sites, such as; Digg, Twitter, Delicious, Pownce, Youtube, Flickr, SU, Reddit and many many more, along with your own personal blog incorporation. Which allows your blog readers yet ANOTHER way to subscribe to your blog and social network.
To be continued, edited and completed within the next few days.
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