10 Bookmarking Sites Discussed

1. del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that has rapidly taken off even more in popularity since being purchased by Yahoo. I use del.icio.us probably the most out of all these top picks, particularly to post interesting sites that I've found around the Web. I also subscribe to quite a few del.icio.us tags, such as popular and reference, and I get all the sites tagged with these keywords in my RSS reader of choice, Bloglines

2. Digg.com

Digg is social bookmarking and social networking gone a little crazy due to the fact that anyone can submit a Digg (site), and then anyone can comment on those same Diggs. For me the most interesting feature of Digg has to actually be the comments on the sites and stories, since the Digg community is not shy about letting folks know how they feel about a particular Digg. Primarily focussed on geeky, technology-type items.

3. Listible

Listible hasn't been around very long, but already it's one of my must-visit sites. Probably because I have a weird thing for lists. Anyone can start a list about pretty much anything; I've seen lists for Firefox extensions, TV theme songs, and much more. Listible users can rate the items on the list and add comments.

4. Furl

Furl, a service of LookSmart, gives users the ability to save copies of any Web page, search within your own personal archive of Web pages, and share what you find. People use Furl to create their own personal shopping lists, real estate directories, job searches, student research papers, etc. This may just sound like a fancy way of saying bookmarks; but the thing about Furl is that you can access it from any computer, which means that your Favorites will go with you.

5. Yahoo My Web 2.0 Beta

Yahoo My Web 2.0 is a social search engine, which means that people and search technology are working together to create both better searches and a better search experience. From the site: "What if you could tap into a directory of favorite web content bookmarked by thousands of people? And what if that content was organized so that you could browse through it by keyword or instantly search to find content on a particular subject?" It's a great way to network and bookmark at the same time.

6. Flickr

Flickr is a social bookmarking and social networking site with a twist: it's all about photos. Users can upload and tag their favorite photos, then other users can bookmark those photos as favorites and share them with even more people. You can also comment on individual photos and share why you like (or dislike) that image.

7. Slashdot

Slashdot is the original social bookmarking site. Slashdotters can submit stories or links they find interesting and then users comment on them (usually the comments are extremely active). The only drawback of Slashdot is that stories and sites have to be pre-approved; this has actually driven a lot of very fervent Slashdot users to other social bookmark sites such as Digg.

8. YouTube

YouTube is another social bookmarking site with a twist; it's all about videos. Users upload their favorite videos and their fellow YouTube users can comment, pass these videos on around the Web, or paste them on their Web sites or blogs. YouTube is a great way to find popular homemade (mostly) videos.

9. Simpy

Simpy is a social bookmarking site that allows users to "save, tag and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other users' links and tags." There's a lot of technology-related stuff here but then again, there's also a lot of very eclectic links on here as well.

10. Popurls.com

Popurls.com is one of my must-read sites every day. Popurls is a lovely conglomeration of about 10 different social bookmarking sites, some of which I've already mentioned in this list. Popurls is a great way to get all your potential bookmarks in one place.

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'Social Bookmarking' As An Aggressive and Acceptable Blog Marketing Tactic

Social bookmarking websites are becoming more and more popular. They allow you to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite's list of yourbrowser. This is particularly useful when your browser based bookmarks have become unwieldy. It's also help since you can access your bookmarks from any computer where you have an internet connection.

I have compiled a list of Social Bookmarking websites from a number of sources. You can find it here: http://www.blogmarketingtactics.com/social-bookmarking/social-bookmarking-top-links.html

Once you have bookmarked them, you can view them, sort them by category/keyword as well as see links from others that have been categorized like yours.

You also establish RSS feeds for each category (tag) that you 'subscribe' to. This alerts you to new links in your areas of interest. Your bookmark collection/RSS Feed becomes viewable to others who can also copy your bookmarks to their own collection. So now you can aggressively promote your RSS feed to the RSS Directories and Search engines, syndicate them and make them available to a much wider audience.

Social bookmarking sites also help you to meet other people who are interested in the same topics you are and who may also have knowledge of web resources that you don't.

On Social Bookmarking sites, you first create an account. Then you bookmark interesting and useful things in the area of your interest or expertise. By doing so you create a useful Feed. Once you've done that you intermittently, (or aggressively), add useful and interesting items, (that could use additional exposure), from your own content. Make an honest effort to contribute USEFUL information and links. This is all about sharing and exposure. Done properly, you can be as aggressive as you want to be about sharing information. You can share your blog(s), links to your informational/resource sites etc. Think about the fact that when you share links to other's resources, you're also effectively promoting their content as well.

This is a way you can aggressively and ethically promote your content and the content of others. I personally have hundreds of gigabytes of my own information and information of others, connected to my notebook. In the final analysis, it's doing me no good what-so-ever just sitting there. But by organizing it, online, I can help myself, (getting organized, getting my content exposed, etc.) and help others at the same time.

If you spice up your feed with too much sales and marketing related or self promotional stuff, people can and will easily drop their subscription to your feed. And instead of gaining good will and doing a service to the internet community you could get labeled as a spammer and suffer the consequences.

So while being aggressive is possible and acceptable, being careful to consider the best interest of the community is certainly warranted.

Balancing being ethical and providing a useful service to others with promoting your own content enables you to be as aggressive as you like. But remember, in the final analysis, others will make the decision on whether it's ethical and useful or spam.

Some Social Bookmarking Sites with Page Rank

http://www.gravee.com/ PR5
http://www.guicookies.com/ PR4
http://www.hanzoweb.com/ PR6
http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/ PR6
http://www.i89.us/ PR3
http://www.icerocket.com/ PR7
http://www.goobtoob.com/ PR0
http://www.igooi.com/ PR5
http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com/ PR2
http://6-clicks.com PR2
http://aworldofhelp.com/home/index2.htm PR4
http://www.30daytags.com/fresh PR5
http://adoppt.com/ PR5
http://www.ambedo.com/ PR5
http://www.allmyfavorites.net/ PR4
http://articletag.com/index.php PR4
http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml PR6
http://www.beanrocket.com/ PR6

Top 100 Social Media Sites

Website	Alexa	Category
1.	youtube.com	3	Videos
2.	flickr.com	39	Images
3.	digg.com	127	General
4.	metacafe.com	143	Videos
5.	stumbleupon.com	380	Cool Content
6.	technorati.com	440	Blogging
7.	scribd.com	538	Articles
8.	blogcatalog.com	784	Internet / Blogs
9.	del.icio.us	1,096	General
10.	propeller.com	1,140	News
11.	twitter.com	1,970	General
12.	fark.com	2,028	Entertainment
13.	mister-wong.de	2,242	General
14.	mybloglog.com	2,252	Blogging
15.	indianpad.com	2,577	General
16.	kaboodle.com	2,741	Shopping
17.	startaid.com	3,026	Internet
18.	i-am-bored.com	3,040	Entertainment
19.	tutorialized.com	3,214	Tutorials
20.	reddit.com	3,851	General
21.	slashdot.org	3,856	Tech
22.	care2.com	3,898	Social Action
23.	blinklist.com	4,229	Internet
24.	megite.com	5,227	General
25.	balatarin.com	5,368	Arab Digg Site
26.	killerstartups.com	5,529	Internet
27.	clipmarks.com	5,907	News
28.	leenks.com	6,014	Entertainment
29.	activerain.com	6,771	Real Estate
30.	blinkbits.com	7,354	Internet
31.	ulinkx.com	7,453	Videos
32.	good-tutorials.com	7,885	Web Design
33.	faves.com	7,984	Internet
34.	nowpublic.com	8,155	News
35.	newsvine.com	8,535	News
36.	linuxquestions.org	8,596	Linux
37.	stylehive.com	9,600	Fashion
38.	pixel2life.com	9,642	Web Design & Development
39.	gather.com	10,033	Articles
40.	ballhype.com	10,466	Sports
41.	shoutwire.com	10,625	General
42.	furl.net	10,693	General
43.	dealigg.com	13,182	Deals
44.	photoshoproadmap.com	14,058	Graphics and Web Design
45.	autospies.com	14,858	Cars
46.	swik.net	15,202	Open Source news
47.	showhype.com	15,914	Web Design
48.	mixx.com	20,536	General
49.	dzone.com	20,562	Web Design & Development
50.	uvouch.com	21,349	Videos
51.	sphinn.com	22,136	Internet Marketing
52.	clipclip.org	24,325	Internet
53.	lipstick.com	24,619	Celebrities
54.	searchles.com	25,788	World
55.	rojo.com	25,900	General
56.	citeulike.org	26,893	Academic
57.	buzzflash.com	27,335	News
58.	blogmarks.net	27,505	Internet
59.	netvouz.com	27,908	Internet
60.	rnel.net	30,120	Graphics and Web Design
61.	spotplex.com	30,959	Automatic Digg like
62.	cgtutorials.com	31,196	Graphics and 3D
63.	plime.com	31,893	News Culture
64.	Mister-Wong.com	33,172	General
65.	wists.com	34,800	Shopping
66.	linkroll.com	35,475	General
67.	ma.gnolia.com	36,035	Internet
68.	simpy.com	37,039	General
69.	bumpzee.com	37,897	Internet / Blogs
70.	corank.com	38,068	News
71.	work.com	38,415	Business & Work
72.	teenwag.com	45,916	Teens
73.	pslover.com	46,204	Graphics nad Design
74.	tailrank.com	46,365	News
75.	links.hubspot.com	52,927	Internet
76.	diigo.com	53,389	Internet
77.	spotback.com	55,256	Internet
78.	flashperfection.com	55,968	Flash Design
79.	backflip.com	59,282	General
80.	spurl.net	59,410	Internet
81.	freeiq.com	65,464	Articles
82.	smallbusinessbrief.com	70,335	Internet Marketing and Business
83.	kinja.com	71,263	General
84.	9rules.com	81,860	Internet
85.	listible.com	89,147	Lists
86.	bloggingzoom.com	91,019	Internet / Blogs
87.	connotea.org	94,104	General
88.	bibsonomy.org	102,801	Publications
89.	sk-rt.com	104,842	Lifestyle
90.	thoof.com	106,745	Internet
91.	rawsugar.com	106,940	Web 2.0
92.	zaadz.com	115,488	General
93.	wirefan.com	128,516	Internet
94.	plugim.com	132,234	Internet Marketing
95.	folkd.com	134,123	General
96.	buddymarks.com	136,480	General
97.	linkagogo.com	136,615	Internet
98.	connectedy.com	148,571	General
99.	designfloat.com	151,710	Web Design & Development
100.	a1-webmarks.com	169,060	General

Top Social-Business Networking Sites

Here is a list of social and business networking sites

• 43 People: social meeting people online
  


• Asoboo: social networking with events/places


• Blogtronix: social business networking; blogging


• Bolt: video/photo/music sharing service


• BrightFuse: business networking operated by CareerBuilder


• Collective X: group calendar, discussions, email, sharing
  


• Couch Surfing: a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit


• Dodgeball: social networking with mobile phones


• Doostang: social professional networking by invitation only
  

• Faves: build your own social network based on templates
  


• Favorville: social networking doing favors


• Hi5: Find friends in your hometown or other parts of the world; upload music, videos, photos


• HooversConnect: business, find the people you want to meet through the people you know


• iKarma: social business networking with recommendations


• Imeem: social network where millions of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends.
  


• Jambo: social networking


• Jyve: skype networking and tools


• Kaneva: social networking service


• Konnects: make connections: locally, internationally, in your industry


• Meetup: localized interest group meeting
  


• MyMapSpace: social networking site with maps


• Orkut: social networking


• RecruiterRockStar: talent generator and social network for candidates and recruiters


• ShoutCentral: social networking site; blogs, photos and fun


• TagWorld: social networking + blog + music + storage
  


• The Well: uninhibited, intelligent, and iconoclastic


• XING: business social networking; powers relationships for the world’s business professionals


• Ziki: social networking site