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

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social bookmarking

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

Pinterest, the online social bookmarking site, has long claimed to be a way to help people discover new things in the real world.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 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