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How do The Top 5 Social Bookmarking sites Work
May 14th 2010 20:02
Social bookmarking sites help the cream of the Internet crop rise to the top.Our favorite Web sites get to be shared with other users, aggregated and rated.
The Top Five Social Bookmarking Site:
Digg
Digg is a powerful player on the social bookmarking scene.As its tagline says, “Digg is a place to discover and share the content on the Web.” Once a video, article or image has been “dugg,” a link and brief description is added to the Digg Web site where other members rate the content up by digging it or rate it down by burying it. Content is organized into major categories such as Technology, Science and Entertainment, so that it’s easy to browse what others have dugg.
Mixx
Mixx works very much the same way Digg does. When you register (you can use your Google, Facebook or Yahoo IDs), you’re asked for your ZIP code. Mixx Local (found under the Popular tab) serves up things submitted by people near you and content about your city.You can then rate what others have submitted and Mixx will create a YourMixx page with suggested content based on your tags and submissions.
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a personalized recommendation engine where you share your favorites and relevant content is served to you based on your interests. If you’ve got some time, either log on or install the StumbleUpon toolbar and click “stumble” (its version of browse). Random Web sites (loosely based on your activity and preferences) will be displayed for you to rate (thumbs up or thumbs down). In addition to the toolbar, StumbleUpon makes it easy to discover new sites with emailed collections of recommended sites.
Delicious
Delicious was one of the first social bookmarking sites and helped pioneer the concept of tagging (assigning keywords to content). Instead of using traditional categories to organize content, Delicious uses a collaborative index (folksonomy) based on tags users assign. Delicious is a pure, uncluttered site making it easy to explore recent or popular tags or do a search for things that interest you.
Reddit
Reddit, is an old-school social bookmarking site where users rate up what’s good and rate down what’s junk. Users accumulate “karma” based on the popularity of their submissions. Almost as important as the content are the comments, which can also be rated.
There are also niche site for blogs like Technorati, news like Newsvine and technology like Slashdot.
The Top Five Social Bookmarking Site:
Digg
Digg is a powerful player on the social bookmarking scene.As its tagline says, “Digg is a place to discover and share the content on the Web.” Once a video, article or image has been “dugg,” a link and brief description is added to the Digg Web site where other members rate the content up by digging it or rate it down by burying it. Content is organized into major categories such as Technology, Science and Entertainment, so that it’s easy to browse what others have dugg.
Mixx
Mixx works very much the same way Digg does. When you register (you can use your Google, Facebook or Yahoo IDs), you’re asked for your ZIP code. Mixx Local (found under the Popular tab) serves up things submitted by people near you and content about your city.You can then rate what others have submitted and Mixx will create a YourMixx page with suggested content based on your tags and submissions.
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a personalized recommendation engine where you share your favorites and relevant content is served to you based on your interests. If you’ve got some time, either log on or install the StumbleUpon toolbar and click “stumble” (its version of browse). Random Web sites (loosely based on your activity and preferences) will be displayed for you to rate (thumbs up or thumbs down). In addition to the toolbar, StumbleUpon makes it easy to discover new sites with emailed collections of recommended sites.
Delicious
Delicious was one of the first social bookmarking sites and helped pioneer the concept of tagging (assigning keywords to content). Instead of using traditional categories to organize content, Delicious uses a collaborative index (folksonomy) based on tags users assign. Delicious is a pure, uncluttered site making it easy to explore recent or popular tags or do a search for things that interest you.
Reddit, is an old-school social bookmarking site where users rate up what’s good and rate down what’s junk. Users accumulate “karma” based on the popularity of their submissions. Almost as important as the content are the comments, which can also be rated.
There are also niche site for blogs like Technorati, news like Newsvine and technology like Slashdot.
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