Social+Bookmarking

Definitions

 * Social Bookmarking** - "Social bookmarking is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others. - a personal knowledge management tool" from Wikipedia


 * Folksonomy** - a new term for collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords, typically in public websites

Applications
[|7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking]

Benefits
Some sites (FURL) will archive the site, so you don't have to worry about the page disappearing before you need it. [|Social Bookmarking] Article from April 2006 at education-world.com

Suggested Sites
[|FURL] [|del.icio.us/]