List of social bookmarking websites

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Social bookmarking websites allow Internet users to organize and store bookmarks to online resources.

The sites provide folksonomy-based tagging, sharing features, web feeds, and bookmarklets to easily add entries.[1] Users can access their bookmarks from any computer.[1]

Name Description Web address
BibSonomy BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature. bibsonomy.org
BookmarkSync bookmarksync.com
CiteULike citeulike.org
Connotea Free reference management for clinicians and scientists connotea.org
Delicious The site was bought by Avos Systems on April 27, 2011 though was operated by Yahoo! until July 2011.[2] delicious.com
Digg digg.com
Diigo Designed to bookmark web pages and highlight key points for reference. Free. diigo.com
folkd folkd.com
GiveALink.org givealink.org
Google Bookmarks Bookmarking service By Google google.com/bookmarks
HeyStaks Social and collaborative bookmarking service for enterprise use. HeyStaks.com
Knowledge Plaza Enterprise bookmarking tool for websites, documents, contacts, e-mails, discussions, book references and wikis. knowledgeplaza.net
Licorize Bookmarking tool which integrates bookmarking with to-do management and Getting Things Done styled tools. licorize.com
Linkwad linkwad.com
Mister Wong mister-wong.com
Newsvine
Oneview
Pearltrees Collaborative bookmark exploration and curation tool organized and presented like a mind map. pearltress.com
Pinboard Social networking site with functions similar to the original Delicious. One-time signup fee. pinboard.in
Reddit reddit.com
SiteBar sitebar.org
Squidoo squidoo.com
StumbleUpon stumbleupon.com
Twine [3]
Xmarks xmarks.com

Defunct sites [edit]

name

Lamberti's Delaware

Description

Alexa Rank 30,000 the top ranked Social Bookmarking website

webaddres

http://lambertisdelaware.com

Gnolia (formerly Ma.gnolia)
Faves As of January 2012, the service is no longer active faves.com
My Web As of November 2005 - redeveloped social bookmarking website internetexpert.biz
Simpy (formerly de.lirio.us)
Windows Live Favorites

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Gilbertson, Scott (November 6, 2006). "Social Bookmarking Showdown". Wired. 
  2. ^ Guynn, Jessica (27 April 2011). "Bookmark this: YouTube's Chad Hurley and Steve Chen buy Delicious from Yahoo". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 April 2011. 
  3. ^ Erica Naone (2008-09-21). "Untangling Web Information". Technology Review. Retrieved 2008-10-21.