social bookmarking site


social bookmarking site

A website that ranks references (bookmarks) to other websites that are contributed by users who like the site. Users can add comments to the bookmarks and make them private for friends and family or public for everyone. Slashdot (www.slashdot.org), Digg (www.digg.com) and Reddit (www.reddit.com) are popular bookmarking sites. See folksonomy, page ranking, social networking and social sharing.


Tag Your Favorite Site
The Delicious site offers browser tools for tagging websites. For example, clicking Tag in the Firefox browser opens a window for adding notes and descriptive tags to the site before posting it.