Report On Social Bookmarking and Delicious

 Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking service is a centralized online service which enables users to add annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web document. Tagging is a significant feature at social bookmarking systems, enabling users to organize their document in flexible ways and develop shared vocabularies known as folksonomies.  

It is tagging a website and saving it for later .And because our bookmarks are online, we can easily share them with friends. The other important thing is that we can also look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag. Unlike file sharing, social bookmarking dose not save the resources themselves. Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a Public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Social bookmarking opens the door to new ways of organizing information and categorizing resources. . Because social bookmarking services indicate who created each bookmark and provide access to that person’s other bookmarked resources, users can make social connections with other individuals interested in just about any topic. One of the advantages of a social bookmarking site is that people can use them to find sites.

Delicious:

Delicious is a social bookmarking service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schechter in 2003.Delicious is an internet site designed to allow us to access to any website which we have already bookmarked. Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows a user to save their bookmarks online. By saving the websites into delicious we are directly saving them to our browser rather than to our computer. So the advantage is that we can access to our bookmarking sites anywhere and anytime with internet connection.  

How Delicious is useful for teachers and students:

Delicious can be used for educational purpose. Both teachers and students can use it for educational purpose. Teachers can store the websites which are important for them. Students can store their sites under specific tag. Students can share their sites among themselves. Whenever they want to use the sites they can directly go to delicious and use it, so they don’t have to go to goggle. Teachers can share the bookmarked sites to their students.Thus, in this way both teachers and students can use it.