Social Bookmarking provides the ability to save your web browser's bookmarks on a website to keep them organized. It also allows you to take your bookmarks with you. Since the bookmarks aren't saved on your computer, you can reach your bookmarks from work or from a friend's computer.
But organizing your bookmarks and making them portable is only a small piece of the social bookmarking puzzle. It also allows you to share your bookmarks with others, be they friends, family, or complete strangers.
Have you ever emailed a funny article to a friend? Or come across a website that someone in your family would love? This is what social bookmarking accomplishes.
So It's Just For Bookmarking?
Even if you don't bookmark a lot of websites, you can still benefit from a social bookmarking website. The most valuable piece of information we have on any product -- be it a book, a movie, a computer, a car, or something else entirely -- is what other people have to say about it.
You probably get movie recommendations from friends. And, you've probably learned which friends you can trust, and which friends you don't quite see eye-to-eye with on movies.
Believe it or not, that is the basic concept of social bookmarking. You can add people as friends and browse through their bookmarks, or simply search through the public bookmarks for something of interest. And, because the bookmarks were added by a real person as opposed to a computer, social bookmarking sites can have an edge over traditional search engines like Yahoo or Google.
