About Social Bookmaring
What is Social Bookmarking?
Social Bookmarking sites allow you to store, tag, and share the links to web sites and pages, news, blogs, and media you come across on the internet. You can share links with your friends and people that have similar interests to you (and they of course share their links with you). By storing links on social bookmarking sites you can access your links from any computer you happen to be using.
Social bookmarking links can be found on all of SWMAG's news and blog pages so you can easily store, tag, or share the articles you find interesting.
All of the sites we link to are free to use but you do need to register; once you have done so you can begin bookmarking.
Overview
Here's a categorised overview of the sites and services we link to. We've picked the main feature of each but many (most) provide services in other categories as well and, like everything else on the web, new things are being added all the time. We suggest you use the links on this page to find out more about them and which one(s) best suits you and your needs.
Blogs
Technorati
Technorati is an internet search engine for searching blogs.
Tumblr
Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be.
Twitter lets you answer one simple question: What are you doing?
Bookmarking
Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage, and share web pages from a centralised source.
With Delicious you can also discover what other people are bookmarking.
Google Bookmarks
Google Bookmarks allows you to bookmark favorite websites and add labels or tags, and notes.
Labels and notes are searchable and you can access yourr bookmarks from any computer by signing in to your GMail account.
Google Bookmarks is only for personal and private use with no option to share bookmarks with others, and no option to see what is popular in other pepole's bookmarks.
News
Buzz
Yahoo! Buzz is a community based news article website that also combines bookmarking and syndication.
Articles that are Buzzed Up potentially appear on the Yahoo! front page.
Digg
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web.Everything on Digg — from news to videos to images — is submitted by the Digg community. Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If a submission receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of visitors to Digg to see.
Mixx
Mixx lets you create your own mix for your home page. By voting on content you can influence and recommend relevant media to other Mixx users within categories, by tags or geography.
Mixx also allos you to follow other Mixx users and create, join and invite users to private groups to share and discuss items.
Newsvine
Newsvine is a community powered, collaborative journalism news website which draws content from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources. You can write articles, seed links to external content, and discuss news items submitted by other users and professional journalists.
reddit is a source for what's new and popular on the web. reddit democratises the traditional model by giving editorial control to the people who use the site, not those who run it. As you let reddit know what you liked and disliked your votes train a filter and you'll begin to be recommended links filtered to your tastes. All of the content on reddit is from users who are rewarded for good submissions (and punished for bad ones) by their peers; you decide what appears on your front page and which submissions rise to fame or fall into obscurity.
Page Rating
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click StumbleUpon delivers pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of over 7 million other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating the sites you like automatically shares them with like-minded people and helps you discover sites they recommend.
Social Networking
Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life.
Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Live
Live is a collection of services from Microsoft that allows to collect, store and share information from websites, news feeds, images, music, and video.
MySpace
MySpace allows you to share photos, journals and interests with your network of friends, and to grow your network by meeting new friends.