social bookmarking

[ soh-shuhl book-mahr-king ]

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.

Other Words From

• social bookmark noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of social bookmarking¹

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

The social bookmarking site spots rising trends by tracking the ebb and flow of the most popular photos and user search words on the site.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From The Verge

Reddit has been around now since 2005, and it has come a long way since its early days as a “social bookmarking” website, where users could share and comment on links to interesting things they had found elsewhere online.

From Slate

“Tech workers are the only point of leverage on these big companies,” said Maciej Cegłowski, the founder of the social bookmarking service Pinboard.

From New York Times

“Either they are going to be the face of the industry, or someone else is,” Maciej Ceglowski, the founder and CEO of the social bookmarking website Pinboard, recalled thinking, when I interviewed him in January.

From The Guardian