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List of social bookmarking websites
A social bookmarking website is a centralized online service that allows users to store and share Internet bookmarks. Such a website typically offers a blend of social and organizational tools, such as annotation, categorization, folksonomy-based tagging, social cataloging and commenting. The website may also interface with other kinds of services, such as citation management software and social networking sites.[1]
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Description
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| BibSonomy
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A system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature.
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| Digg
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A news aggregator with an editorially driven front page.
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| Diigo
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Designed to bookmark web pages and highlight key points for reference. Has both a free version and a premium version.
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| Hatena
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Hatena Bookmark is a social bookmarking service by a Japanese company. It is often colloquially referred to as Hatebu.
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| Pearltrees
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Collaborative bookmark exploration and curation tool organized and presented like a mind map.
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| Pinterest
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A web and mobile application that offers visual discovery, collection, sharing, and storage of images.
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| Pinboard
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Pinboard has a plain design and a focus on personal management of bookmarks using tags to organize them, similar to early versions of the Delicious social bookmarking service
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| Pocket
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Established in 2007, for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Requires registration.
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| Reddit
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Users submit content in the form of either a link or a text ("self") post. Links and content can be voted on.
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| SiteBar
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A free online bookmarking manager. It is open source software, mainly funded by authors' donations.
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| We Heart It
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An image-based social network for inspiring images.
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| Plurk
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A free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 210 text characters in length (previously 140).
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| Scoop.it
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A content curation website that lets businesses and professionals to research and publish content.
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| Flipboard
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A content aggregator website that allows users to share, group, and collect content from multiple sources.
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Defunct sites
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Description
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| BookmarkSync
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| CiteULike
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A web service that allowed users to save and share citations to academic papers.
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| Clipmarks
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a Delicious-like social bookmarking service, bought by Clipboard in 2012.[2]
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| Connotea
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discontinued service on March 12, 2013.
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| Delicious
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The site was bought by Avos Systems on April 27, 2011, though was operated by Yahoo! until July 2011.[3] On June 1, 2017, Delicious was acquired by Pinboard, and the service will be discontinued. As of March 2018, the website is read-only.
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| Faves
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as of January 2012, the service is no longer active.
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| Furl
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web page clipping and archiving service, founded in 2003 and acquired by Diigo in 2009.[4]
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| Gnolia
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formerly Ma.gnolia
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| My Web
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as of November 2005 - Internet Expert
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| oneview
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| Simpy
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formerly de.lirio.us
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| StumbleUpon
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StumbleUpon was a discovery engine that finds and recommends web content to its users. It has moved to Mix
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| Trackle
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Trackle offered a variety of information categories that users could keep tabs on and share like-interests with groups of users via Twitter, SMS, and Email.
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| Twine
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Twine existed from 2007 to 2010. Now shut down.
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| Newsvine
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Owned by NBC, Community-powered which hosts content from its users and syndicated content. Discontinued on October 1, 2017, redirected to NBCNEWS web page
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| Xmarks
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Syncs bookmarks (folders & sub-folders) and profiles across different browsers and platforms. Includes sharing option and possibility to access bookmarks via web-based interface. On May 1, 2018, Xmarks was discontinued after being acquired by LastPass.
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See also
Notes and references
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