Meevy

People use online bookmarks because it stays more permanently than that of offline bookmarks. The list of bookmarks in your browser gets lost if there is a system crash or re-install. That’s not the case with online bookmarking sites. To stop loosing your bookmarks and to share them with others, Online Social Bookmarks do a great job.

Some bookmark sites offer private bookmarking while most others offer public bookmarking. Your bookmarks will remain safe until the bookmarking site remains. If you do not wish others to view your bookmarks then you can try Google bookmarks. To use this feature you need a Google or Gmail account.

Social Bookmarks could be searched and relevant results can be offered using tags. Tags are defined by people according to their own ideas. You can use your own set of tags to bookmark a URL. It is possible for any one to search your bookmarks provided you don’t bookmark privately.

A site’s popularity is determined by the number of people who recommend that particular site via bookmarks and not by search engines. This is how the Social bookmarking system works. The Wikipedia on social bookmarking says,

Social bookmarking sites are an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the practice of tagging and inferences drawn from grouping and analysis of tags.

The highest bookmarked sites are listed in the front page of the bookmarking sites. When users visit the homepage of a bookmarking site, there they could find out the most bookmarked sites of that day according to their own field of interest.

I have added online bookmarklets at the end of each post. Feel free to bookmark which ever posts you like.

If you wish to put a similar set of bookmarklets at the footer of your blog allowing your visitors to bookmark your pages then you can use the ready to use code developed by 3spots. The images are hosted at imagepile.com and links in the code have been tested at 3spots. You need to add the code as it is shown below.

Once the code is added, the bookmarklets could be seen below each and every post of your blog. The code works perfect for blogger / blogspot blogs.

Update: I have removed the social bookmark buttons as the images tend to increase the page loading time.