Here is the information I found on social bookmarking.

• Social bookmarking is a way to share, organize, search, and manage your bookmarks with others across the world.


• Anyone can use social bookmarking as a way to find new and exciting information for a hobby, research and education, or just for fun.


• To use social bookmarking, you can sign up for a free account and start tagging your own websites that you find interesting and search other people's bookmarks, as all tags are public so a wealth of information can be shared.


• This is significant because you can share your bookmarks with others and find useful websites to help you in your field of interest, as well.


• Social bookmarking is growing each and every day as more and more people discover the usefullness of a river of knowledge flowing from one bookmark to the next. Because all of your bookmarks are stored online, you can access your bookmarks from any computer with internet access.


• This program is especially useful to students and teaschers who are doing research in their majors, or who are looking up information for homework assignments. It is easy to find a wealth of information when you look at bookmarks from your peers who are researching similar information.


• Some of the downsides of social bookmarking are that it can seem overwhelming at first and that there is no standard way of setting keywords, which makes searching other people's bookmarks a daunting task at some points.


• Benefits include the abilty to access your bookmarks from more than one computer, the ability to organize your bookmarks with keywords, and the ability to access others bookmarks, too.


• I have visited diigo, delicious, and simpy. Of these I personally like delicious the best because I didn't like simpy's interface and found that I liked the simplicity of the delicious interface. I feel as though for the amount of time I will put into social bookmarking, delicious is perfect for me. If I wanted to get more involved, Diigo would be a better match because of the ability to have online sticky notes which would be very useful in doing research. For the amount of time, though, delicious is perfectly satisfying.