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Thursday 9th February 2012

News articles on womenintechnology.co.uk include links to various social bookmarking websites.

Social Bookmarking Explained:

Social bookmarking sites allow users to bookmark, tag and share links across the Internet with friends and others with similar interests. Because bookmarked pages are stored on the Internet they are available from any computer with access to the internet.

All these sites are free to use and just require you to register. Once registered you can bookmark interesting articles on Women in technology for future reference or to share with friends. To do this just click the social bookmarking button on the article you want to bookmark.

Here is a list of the most popular social bookmarking sites:

Del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/
One of the most popular social bookmarking sites, this site uses a tagging system to enable users to highlight the subject of the article.
More information about Del.icio.us can be found on the following link: http://del.icio.us/about/

Digg
www.digg.com
This site allows users to “Digg” a story they like and “Bury” content they do not like. If a story receives enough Diggs it will be featured on the homepage.
More information about Digg can be found on the following link: http://www.digg.com/about

reddit
www.reddit.com
reddit uses a voting system so popular stories are voted onto the reddit homepage.
More information about reddit can be found on the following link: http://reddit.com/help/

StumbleUpon
www.stumbleupon.com
StumbleUpon is a browser application that allows users to submit sites they find interesting.
More information about StumbleUpon can be found on the following link: http://www.stumbleupon.com/about.html

More information about social bookmarking can be found on Wikipedia on the following link: Social bookmarking explained on Wikipedia