The reflection of the 3rd lesson

Social bookmarking

We already use Bookmarks or Favorites in our personal browsers to save Web sites that we use frequently in class or at home. But, what if you've saved a site on our home computers and want to find that Web site while we're at school? The typical bookmark/favorite system doesn't work for these scenarios. Social bookmarking can help us in this case. That technique uses a Web-based service instead of your browser to save and organize bookmarks. Instead of individually saving the site in a variety of folders, you just type a few keywords called tags, and your sites are organized automatically with sites saved by other users, using those same keywords. For users, social bookmarking can be useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts. For us, we can share our bookmark sites to our students and colleagues easily even we are not using our personal computers.