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Introduction

The Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet or Intranet.Other than web page bookmarks, services specialized to a specific subject or format - feeds, books, videos, music, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. - can be found. Social bookmarking is also part of Social News Sites like Reddit.

History

The concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Within the next three years online bookmark services became competitive, with venture-backed companies like Backflip, Blink, Clip2, Hotlinks, Quiver, and others entering the market. Social bookmarking has more recently inspired the more successful social news movement which includes sites like del.icio.us, reddit, Digg and the new Netscape portal.

Functional Overview

In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists are either accessible to the public or a specific network, and other people with similar interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly. Some allow for privacy on a per-bookmark basis.They also categorize their resources by the use of informally assigned, user-defined keywords or tags (see folksonomy). Most social bookmarking services allow users to search for bookmarks which are associated with given "tags", and rank the resources by the number of users which have bookmarked them. Many social bookmarking services also have implemented algorithms to draw inferences from the tag keywords that are assigned to resources by examining the clustering of particular keywords, and the relation of keywords to one another.

Its increasing popularity and competition have extended the services to offer more than just sharing bookmarks, such as rating, commenting, the ability to import and export, add notes, reviews, email links, automatic notification, feed subscription, web annotation, create groups and social networks.

(resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking )

SocioTag Premium Joomla 1.0v

A Joomla! based module that gives a visual appeal to your site visitors and more importantly the ability to click on on an icon and be redirected to a social bookmarking site to further bookmark your site online to refer back to.  Practically your visitors can bookmark each individual content, blog post, article, etc to individual bookmarking sites i.e. del.ici.ous, furl, blinlist, etc, with descriptions and tags.   These bookmarked content can be shared with a wider audience and attract more traffic to your site.

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  • No modifications to core Joomla files required!
    Let's make the life of our users a little more easier! No patches to the core files are required now!
  • 6 more bookmarking sites added! (Premium Version)

    Hugg, Mister Wong, Profile Heaven, Slashdot, Stumble Upon, Technocrati

  • Caching is added: Sociotag 1.4 works faster than 1.3!

    xml files of bookmarking websites' configuration are now read only once and then is saved to cache

  • 3 ways to display Sociotag: before content, after content, before+after
  • it can even be displayed anywhere inside the article with the new tag
  • XHTML compliant! Can be turned on or off, (Premium Version to allow drop down box) inspired by Tibor Toth of http://joomlamagazine.eu/cms/index.php
  • Option to populate modules.
  • Pop up windows for tag icons will maximize.
  • Disables tag within static content.
  • Premium version also includes a drop-down menu layout for some of your tags giving a clean look to the site, this menu appears when the mouse hovers over the menu icon. (Premium Version)
  • Allows users to turn off the help page which directs to explanation page for social bookmarking (Premium Version)

    Premium Version is v.1.4 available for $10

    SocioFeed and SocioTag Premium versions combined $18 - $2 Saving!

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