social+bookmarking

=What is Social Bookmarking?=
 * Social bookmarking is a method for internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike File sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, there bookmarks that reference them.**

=History:= the concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to April 1996 with the launch of it List, the features of which included public and private bookmarks.Within the next three years, online bookmark services became competitive, with venture-backed companies such as Backflip, Blink, Clip2, ClickMarks, HotLinks, and others entering the market. They provided folders for organizing bookmarks, and some services automatically sorted bookmarks into folders. Blink included browser buttons for saving bookmarks; Backflip enabled users to email their bookmarks to others and displayed "Backflip this page" buttons on partner websites. Lacking viable revenue models, this early generation of social bookmarking companies failed as the dot-com bubble burst — Backflip closed citing "economic woes at the start of the 21st century". In 2005, the founder of Blink said, "I don't think it was that we were 'too early' or that we got killed when the bubble burst. I believe it all came down to product design, and to some very slight differences in approach." Founded in 2003, Delicious pioneered taggig and coined the term //social bookmarking//. In 2004, as Delicious began to take off and dig go entered the bookmarking field In 2007. Sites such as Digg, reddit, and Newvine offer a similar system for organization of social news.

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