social bookmarking
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online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents
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Encyclopedic overview
Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social bookmarking" and "tagging". Tagging is a significant feature of social bookmarking systems, allowing users to organize their bookmarks and develop shared vocabularies known as folksonomies.
Common features
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “social bookmarking” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.