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social bookmarking website is a centralized online service that allows users to store and share
Internet bookmarks
In the context of the World Wide Web, a bookmark is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that is stored for later retrieval in any of various storage formats. All modern web browsers include bookmark features. Bookmarks are called favorites or I ...
. Such a website typically offers a blend of social and organizational tools, such as annotation, categorization,
folksonomy
Folksonomy is a classification system in which end users apply public tags to online items, typically to make those items easier for themselves or others to find later. Over time, this can give rise to a classification system based on those tags ...
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tagging,
social cataloging
A social cataloging application is a web application designed to help users to catalog things such as books, films, music albums, etc. owned or otherwise of interest to them. The phrase refers to two characteristics that generally arise from a mult ...
and commenting. The website may also interface with other kinds of services, such as
citation management software and
social networking sites
A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, act ...
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Defunct sites
See also
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Comparison of enterprise bookmarking platforms
The following tables compare Enterprise bookmarking platforms.
General
The table provides an overview of Enterprise Bookmarking platforms. The platforms listed refer to an application that is installed on a web server (usually requiring MySQL o ...
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List of social software
This is a list of notable social software: selected examples of social software products and services that facilitate a variety of forms of social human contact.
Blogs
*Apache Roller
*Blogger
*IBM Lotus Connections
*Posterous
* Telligent Commu ...
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List of social networking services
A social networking service is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
This is a li ...
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Comparison of reference management software
The following tables compare notable reference management software. The comparison includes older applications that may no longer be supported, as well as actively-maintained software.
General
In the "notes" section, there is a difference betwe ...
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Social network aggregation
Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services into one unified presentation. The task is often performed by a social network aggregator, such as Hootsuite or FriendFeed, which pulls together ...
Notes and references
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Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social ...
Social bookmarking websites
Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not.
Etymology
The word "social" derives from ...