Introduction
Social bookmarking shifts bookmarks from individual computers to a single location, accessible from any networked location. This shift allows maximizes the personal and social value of browser-based bookmarking. Users share their knowledge and reflection with others & capitalize on the knowledge and reflection of others, whether they know them or not.
Users can also consciously link thier bookmarks with those of colleagues or friends into a network of shared resources, or create a shared account for a collaborative research project. The publishing of each individual's bookmarks creates resources which everyone can use, whether you know them or not. Thus, social bookmarking builds social capital via both very weak and stronger ties.
Users organize their resources (individual or collaborative) via a taxonomy, a theory and practice of information organization, which they themselves create to suit specific purposes. Users describe each source with words or short phrases – known as tags – which users themselves choose and organize. A taxonomy created collaboratively by individuals is called a folksonomy.