Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a service that allows users to create, edit, view, discover, and share bookmarks online. This term was coined by the popular social bookmarking site Delicious, which was created by Joshua Schachter in September 2003 and discontinued in 2017. On Delicious, users would maintain a collection of bookmarks, which could then be shared on the platform. Anyone who visited Delicious could browse through the bookmarks of other users by performing a search or via related tags.
What makes social bookmarking fun is the ability to discover new websites based on your interests. Unfortunately, with spammers and other abuses, and the difficulty of monetizing these services, many have closed or changed to a different type of service.
Active social bookmarking sites
Below are social bookmarking sites that are still active and used today.
- BibSonomy
- Diigo
- Hatena (Japanese)
- Pearltrees
- Pinboard
- ShareThis
- SiteBar
- We Heart It
Past social bookmarking sites
Below are social bookmarking websites once active and today are either closed or have changed to a different type of service.
- AddThis
- Backflip
- Blink
- CiteULike
- Clip2
- ClickMarks
- Connectbeam
- Connotea
- Delicious
- Digg
- Faves
- Furl
- Gnolia
- Google Bookmarks
- Hotlinks
- itList
- Mister Wong
- My Web
- Oneview
- Simpy
- Spabba
- Spurl
- StumbleUpon
- Trackle
- Twine
- Newsvine
- WebTagger
- Xmarks