Report on Social Bookmarking and Delicious

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a Uniform Resource Identifier that stores important links/materials for our later retrieval in various storage formats. It is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit and share bookmarking. Bookmark management services have launched since 1996.

How It Is Useful

Social bookmarking system functions as online storage device where users can save links to webpages which they want to remember/ use them for later purposes or want to share with groups etc. It allows users to organize their bookmarks as per their convenience and share their links to others. They can make their links either publicly or private,only with specified group or people.The allowed people can view these bookmarks chronologically, by categories or tags or via a search engine.Users can also add descriptions to their links in the form of 'metadata'. It not only allows users to share bookmarks but also enables them to look what other people have found interesting enough to tag. In short social bookmarking sites are used as 'intelligent search engines'.

Delicious- A Social Bookmarking Sites

Delicious is one of the popular, free social bookmarking website, founded in 2003 by Joshua Schachter. The following points are enough to justify its popularity.Delicious is used to:
-Search and browse your Delicious bookmarks
- Keep up to date on your Network and Links For You
- Access your bookmarks from any computer at any time
- Keep your bookmarks organized using tags
- Share your bookmarks with friends or anyone on the Web
- Import your existing bookmarks

In delicious users can group their links with similar topics together to form a 'stack' and can also include titles and descriptions for the stack page. Delicious also has a 'hotlist' on its home page which includes ''popular'' and ''recent'' pages that users can visit.
For the newcomers Delicious is a useful site as provides an option to import bookmarks from web browsers to its site so that new users can quickly get started with the site.

Educational Use of Delicious

Delicious, in teaching -learning can be proved helpful for both teachers and students as well.

-Having an account in delicious a teacher can bookmark important information related to particular topic/unit.

- The teacher can create students group and tag important content to them.

-It is easy to access any time and anywhere.

-Students can use delicious to share interesting content to their classmates.

It is a very useful tool to compile the similar kinds of data using tags etc.

-the teacher can tag and save bookmarks on her account and students can be asked to find her bookmarks and read them.

-Students can be asked to find information related to particular topic and bookmark the content. further they can be asked to read and comment.

In conclusion, we can say that social bookmarking not only useful for ordinary users but it is also helpful tool in the field of education.