social bookmarking

American  

[soh-shuhl book-mahr-king] / ˈsoʊ ʃəl ˈbʊkˌmɑr kɪŋ /

noun

Digital Technology.

1. the practice of saving bookmarked web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other internet users.

   Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.

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Other Word Forms

• social bookmark noun

Etymology

Origin of social bookmarking

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

Del.icio.us CEO Joshua Schachter reflects on selling his one-beloved social bookmarking site to Yahoo.

From The Verge • Oct. 19, 2018

Promising acquisitions, including photo-sharing site Flickr and social bookmarking service Delicious, withered on the vine.

From Reuters • Jul. 26, 2016

Having stuck doggedly with Delicious - the social bookmarking service - to store links to interesting articles, the experience became "so bad" that he fell into the arms of Evernote.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2015

URL-shortening website bitly has just revamped itself as more of a social bookmarking service, complete with a new iPhone app.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2012

The men are trying to inject new life into Delicious, a social bookmarking service that, in its time, was popular among the technorati, but failed to catch on with a broader audience.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2011