Intel® Teach Program

Thinking with Technology Course

Online Tagging and Bookmarking Sites

This page includes two categories of bookmarking sites:

Tagging/Social Bookmarking Web Sites - Social bookmarking Web sites allow you to save and annotate Web sites you want to find later, but also makes it easy to share and "tag" Web sites with key words. These tags are used to categorize and organize your favorite Web sites; then other users can take these bookmarks and add them to their own collection. A social bookmarking site is also like a search engine, except that it only searches entries on its database that other people have recommended (or tagged). Usually these resources have a toolbar you can install on your web browser for quick saving of resources.

Traditional Online Bookmarking Web Sites - Online bookmarking sites are very similar to the favorites or bookmarks you keep on your computer, except that you can access them from any Internet-connected computer. You can usually import your current computer-based favorites so you can access them online.

Tagging/Social Bookmarking Web Sites

digg

www.digg.com*

Every article on digg is submitted and voted on by the digg community. Users share, discover, bookmark, and promote the news that's important to them. Must be 13 or above for an account. Does not permit posting of content that is Content that is abusive or offensive. (See terms of use.)

del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us*

One of the more popular social bookmarking sites. The primary use of del.icio.us is to store bookmarks online, which allows access to your bookmarks from any computer, as well as the ability to add bookmarks from other users. Use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks. See links that other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. A group researching together can use a shared account, special tag, or their del.icio.us networks to collect and organize bookmarks that are relevant--and useful--to the entire group. Only allows public bookmarking (no private tags).

Diigo

www.diigo.com*

Besides saving "favorite" Web sites online, users can highlight, clip (highlighted portions of any Web page are clipped and collected centrally, which can be shared and searched), and add sticky-notes to any Web page. Users can share online findings with their friends and colleagues&emdash;complete with highlights and sticky notes as lists, blogs, albums, feeds, or via email. Great for research&emdash;highlight Web pages and add comments as you go. Comments can be private or public (anyone with Diigo can view them). Annotate Web pages and quickly turn them into blogs with a built-in blog editor or enhanced linkrolls. Accessible from any Internet-connected computer, but for full features, install a free toolbar onto your browser. If you do not want to install a toolbar, the "diigolet bookmarklet" works very well and requires only link on your browser's link bar.

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Traditional Online Bookmarking Web Sites

Backflip

www.backflip.com/login.ihtml*

As you discover interesting Web pages, use the Backflip it! button that you save to your toolbar to save them. Backflip will then organize them for you in your personal directory &endash; which you can access from any computer. You add a button to your links bar to ”backflip” any site to your favorites.

ikeepbookmarks

www.ikeepbookmarks.com*

iKeepBookmarks.com allows you to upload, and keep, your bookmarks on the web for free. You can access them from any computer. Allows you to import your Internet Explorer Favorites or Netscape Bookmarks. Easily share your favorite pages with friends and associates.

MURL

http://murl.com*

Your personal bookmarks and other information are kept secure, password-protected, and available only to you. You can use one of the ”MURL Gadgets” to upload bookmarks from a number of sources and download them to a number of destinations. A window will stay in the background as you surf the Internet allowing you instant access to MURL storage.

Portaportal

www.portaportal.com*

Use an easy URL for your bookmarks (http://my.portaportal.com). Create and then fill categories by adding bookmarks to your favorite websites (also as many as you like). Uses a small pop-up window that you can use to paste in the title, URL, and description. Keep the window open as you browse the Internet.

Yahoo! Bookmarks

http://bookmarks.yahoo.com*

Yahoo! Bookmarks allow you to store links to your favorite Web sites on Yahoo! and access them from any Internet-connected computer. In addition, you can store your Yahoo! Bookmarks in folders to better organize your favorite sites. As an option, you can use Yahoo! Companion (http://companion.yahoo.com*), a browser toolbar, to quickly add to or access your Yahoo! Bookmarks from a drop-down menu in your browser.

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