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Benefits of Social Bookmarking

Social Editors — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:01:11 +0000

Team Position2 — The Benefits of Social Book Marketing are Hugh — I am sure you know what bookmarks are – those strips of leather or crafted card used to mark a place in a book. Similarly, on the internet, users can use bookmarks to save their favorite pages to visit in future.

Personally, I have an enormous amount of important pictures, videos and documents and I save all of them in social bookmarking sites. Now, you might wonder what social bookmarking is. Wikipedia defines it as, “A method for internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of webpages on the internet with the help of metadata.”

In other words, it is a method used to save and store online information or webpages for future reference. It also helps you share links with your contacts. There are many social bookmarking sites like digg, delicious, stumbleupon, etc. you can use for this purpose.

Here are some benefits of social bookmarking you should consider…

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Google Apps Security Questioned After Twitter Leak

the Editors — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:09:50 +0000

[PC World] – Twitter uses Google Docs for information sharing. How do I know this? Well, it seems Twitter Inc. has had a pretty significant security breach which was brought on by a Twitter employee’s Google Apps account being hacked. Have a look below at one of the screenshots the hacker has sent to various news sites.

According to Twitter founder Ev Williams: “Yes, we did suffer an attack a few weeks ago and are familiar with this list of stuff. This is unrelated to the hack of Twitter where someone gained access to users’ accounts. This had nothing to do with the security of Twitter.com, and there were no user accounts compromised here…..

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Update StumbleUpon, Twitter and Facebook Simultaneously

the Editors — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:13:41 +0000

[Search Engine Watch] – Last month, StumbleUpon unveiled Su.pr, a tool that shortens URLs but also enables the submission of links to StumbleUpon while also offering the option to simultaneous update Twitter and Facebook.

Now, Su.pr has been made available to anyone. To access it, you must become a registered user of StumbleUpon. You’ll also need to authorize Twitter and Facebook to use the tool, if you plan to use the simultaneous updating. (And seriously, why wouldn’t you?)

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Yahoo widgets for the social networker

the Editors — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:21:44 +0000

[CNET] – Yahoo widgets are designed to bridge the gap between the Web and your desktop. After you search through the company’s listing of widgets and find what you like, you can download them onto your desktop.

But what if you’re a social-networking fanatic? Certainly, being on the Web works fine for you, but Yahoo widgets might make it just a little easier to satisfy your desire to stay connected. Here are some Yahoo widgets that help you network with your friends right on your desktop…..

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LinkedIn Drills Down Into People Search With New Beta

the Editors — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:57:05 +0000

[Washington Post] – LinkedIn, the online business network, earlier today quietly introduced a People Search beta. Once you opt in, a guided navigation panel appears on the right every time you search showing the breakdown of results across 11 different facets, including current company, relationship to you, location, industry, and whether or not they are looking for a job. By checking the appropriate boxes, you can narrow your search quickly and find who you are looking for…..

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Revving Up Digg

the Editors — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:50:00 +0000

[Forbes] – Digg, the five-year-old San Francisco-based social networking company. By inflated Web 2.0 standards, Digg is old news. Media critics carp that Digg, which impels its users to scour the Web to promote what’s “cool,” has lost its own cool factor: Search volume and news mentions, approximated by Google Trends, peaked in 2007 amid rumors of acquisition by companies like News Corp. and Google. The heat surrounding Digg.com is now a fraction of what it once was…..

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Tech News Video Report

the Editors — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:43:14 +0000

The latest edition of Tech Bits and Bytes video report. Keep up with the latest news and updates on all things techy. View the video now…

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