Review of Social Bookmarking Services

[mandy]

The reason that social bookmarking has exploded in the last year is obvious -- storing your bookmarks online instead of in the browser just makes sense.

Social bookmarking services let you keep links to your favorite web destinations in one location that's accessible from any computer on the net. Add the ability to share your favorite web destinations and search through other users' bookmarks to discover new sites, and you've got a highly addictive and truly remarkable phenomenon.

There's a score of services out there, and no single service has it all. Some social bookmarking sites focus more closely on sharing and discovery, while others offer more options for sorting and organizing...

full article: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/int...wn_index_2

TIP: Ecommerce sites can use social bookmarking sites to their advantage.  See our ZenCart demo site for an example:
http://www.tulipstuff.com/demozen/micros...-p-25.html

[BellisimaJ.]

TIP: Ecommerce sites can use social bookmarking sites to their advantage.  See our ZenCart demo site for an example:
http://www.tulipstuff.com...et-keyboard-ps2-p-25.html

Mandy, I'm not awake yet
I looked at the demo site and don't see the example.

[BellisimaJ.]

I use del.icio.us . I love it! Much easier to find bookmarks than using a folder system in your browser. Easy to use too.

I would like more info on using it as an ecommerce tool.

[amy]

I would like more info on using it as an ecommerce tool.

1. your customers bookmark your link which increases the odds of them returning to your site.
2. your customers can make it a public link if they choose and many people will see your link.

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=amy link=topic=5813.msg31138#msg31138 date=1162857925]

I would like more info on using it as an ecommerce tool.

1. your customers bookmark your link which increases the odds of them returning to your site.
2. your customers can make it a public link if they choose and many people will see your link.
[/quote]

Thanks, Amy!

[cranky_hippie]

In the Comments part of the linked article, someone mentioned AddThis.com which allows you to use just one button and works with most (or possibly all) of the bookmarking services, as well as Google, IE Favorites & Yahoo. It allows one to choose from a list which service they want to use. 

[Kristijntje]

Another review of social bookmarking services:

Digg’s ubiquity and influence doesn’t mean it’s perfect. A number of startups are tackling the same problem as Digg - sharing of good content via link submission and some form of voting. One of them, stumbleupon, actually has more registered users than Digg. For the most part, though, these sites won’t be able to do much damage to Digg’s steady growth. But many of them are worth looking at, and they all have individual features that could, if incorporated into Digg, make it a better overall service....

full article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/16/who...g-on-digg/