Social Bookmarking Tools - Let Us Know About Them

Statistics prove that social bookmarking tools are liked more than browser bookmarks or favorites. Why? Well, it is because they provide accessibility from any computer, incorporate superior details in archiving and recovery and also provide us with the ability to share our bookmarks as a whole or by tags with others.

Today, a large variety of social bookmarking tools, with different functionality and rates are available in the market. The prime goal of bookmarking tools is to help you save bookmarks to an online service or tag them with relevant keywords. Social bookmarking tools also allow you to clip all or a portion of the page that you bookmark, with comments and more meaningful content.

The Everchanging World Of Social Bookmarking Tools And Their Benefits

You might wonder- why do so many web users use social bookmarking tools? Let us look into some of their benefits to answer this question.
Social bookmarking tools enable like-minded people to find each other so that they can create new communities of users around a topic
These tools allow specific groups of people to share resources efficiently
They help one in finding new insights on a topic by viewing what others think about it
They help to automatically save cached copies of the pages that you bookmark
They incorporate various mechanisms for sharing information via RSS, integration with other tools
Whats more, some social bookmarking tools also allow you to assign a particular URL as " private" so that you can keep it only for yourself!

More About Bookmarking Tools

There are also additional tools, functionality, and services built to enhance to features of social bookmarking tools. These offer facilities like import, which is adding an existing list of bookmarks to the users account, export that is exporting the existing list of bookmarks as either html or xml to the site that you switch to, publishing which enables you to make the lists available in another format on the web.

Right from the time of Early man, tools have been evolving, so why should there be any difference today? Today also new tools appear and disappear to give place to better tools. Some popular social bookmarking tools are del.icio.us, Frassle, Furl, Lookmarks and Spurl. One helpful tip to choose the right social book marking tools for your self would be to go in for that particular one that the other people in your working community are using. For example, a huge number of librarians use the tool Furl. Which one are you going in for then, hmm?

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