social bookmarking

September 20th, 2008 by luke | Filed under explained.

If you bookmark a page in your internet browser that you find interesting, you can only access that when you use the same machine – social bookmarking sites allow you to share that bookmark online and access it from anywhere.

Sites such as digg enable users to submit and rate stories, thereby ranking them for display on the digg homepage as well – as a user of the site, you’ll also get stories suggested to you based on the stories you have “dugg” – in effect providing you with a personalised news feed tailored to your interests.

wikipedia entry