The following will provide tutorials, definitions and resources for Bookmark Sharing. You are not required to look at all of the material, but search it until you feel that you have a good understanding of what is required for you to fulfill the assignment.
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Browsers usually have a feature which allows you to record a website that you like. But it is a list that is resident on that computer only. Social bookmarking is a way to upload and organize the sites you normally would 'bookmark' so that they are accessible and shareable at any time from any computer. To quote D-Lib magazine: (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html) "Just as long as those hyperlinks (or let's call them plain old links) are managed, tagged, commented upon, and published onto the Web, they represent a user's own personal library placed on public record, which – when aggregated with other personal libraries – allows for rich, social networking opportunities."
Here is an extensive list (http://www.lights.com/pickalink/bookmarks/) of bookmarking services that includes a description of each
Here are a few that were not on that list: