List of social bookmarking websites
Social bookmarking websites are centralized online services which allow users to store and share Internet bookmarks. Such sites typically offer a blend of social and organizational tools, such as annotation, categorization, folksonomy-based tagging, commenting, and interface with other kinds of services like citation management software and social networking sites.[1]
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| BibSonomy | BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature. |
| CiteULike | CiteULike is a web service which allows users to save and share citations to academic papers. |
| Delicious | The site was bought by Avos Systems on April 27, 2011 though was operated by Yahoo! until July 2011.[2] |
| Digg | Digg is a news aggregator with an editorially driven front page |
| Diigo | Designed to bookmark web pages and highlight key points for reference. Free. |
| Fark | |
| GiveALink.org | |
| Google Bookmarks | Bookmarking service by Google |
| Newsvine | |
| Pearltrees | Collaborative bookmark exploration and curation tool organized and presented like a mind map. |
| Pinboard | Pinboard can automatically import your links and tweets from a number of outside services. The archive feature saves a local copy of everything you bookmark in case the original page goes offline, and offers full-text search. Currently 11 USD annual fee, with an optional 25 USD fee for archiving. |
| Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that offers a visual discovery, collection, sharing, and storage tool. | |
| Users submit content in the form of either a link or a text ("self") post. Links and content can be voted on. | |
| SiteBar | |
| StumbleUpon | StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds and recommends web content to its users. |
| We Heart It | We Heart It is an image-based social network for inspiring images |
| Xmarks |
Defunct sites
- Amplify: web clipping service, bought by Clipboard in 2012.[3] The current website, Amplify.com, runs an education service launched in 2012 by News Corp, which has no relation to the prior bookmark service.
- BookmarkSync
- Clipmarks: a Delicious-like social bookmarking service, bought by Clipboard in 2012.[3]
- Connotea: discontinued service on March 12, 2013.
- Faves: as of January 2012, the service is no longer active.
- Furl: web page clipping and archiving service, founded in 2003 and acquired by Diigo in 2009.[4]
- Gnolia (formerly Ma.gnolia)
- My Web: as of November 2005 - Internet Expert
- Simpy (formerly de.lirio.us)
- Twine
See also
- Comparison of enterprise bookmarking platforms
- List of social software
- List of social networking websites
- Comparison of reference management software
Notes and references
- ↑ Gilbertson, Scott (November 6, 2006). "Social Bookmarking Showdown". Wired.
- ↑ Guynn, Jessica (27 April 2011). "Bookmark this: YouTube's Chad Hurley and Steve Chen buy Delicious from Yahoo". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 As Social Bookmarking Reignites, Venture-Backed Clipboard Acquires Clipmarks & Amplify
- ↑ Diigo Buys Web Page Clipping Service Furl Away From LookSmart