A social bookmarking website is a centralized online service that allows users to store and share Internet bookmarks. Such a website typically offers a blend of social and organizational tools, such as annotation, categorization, folksonomy-based tagging, social cataloging and commenting. The website may also interface with other kinds of services, such as citation management software and social networking sites.[1]
| Name | Description |
| BibSonomy | A system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature. |
| Digg | A news aggregator with an editorially driven front page. |
| Diigo | Designed to bookmark web pages and highlight key points for reference. Has both a free version and a premium version. |
| Hatena | Hatena Bookmark is a social bookmarking service by a Japanese company. It is often colloquially referred to as Hatebu. |
| Pearltrees | Collaborative bookmark exploration and curation tool organized and presented like a mind map. |
| Pinterest | A web and mobile application that offers visual discovery, collection, sharing, and storage of images. |
| Pinboard | Pinboard has a plain design and a focus on personal management of bookmarks using tags to organize them, similar to early versions of the Delicious social bookmarking service |
| Reddit | Users submit content in the form of either a link or a text ("self") post. Links and content can be voted on. |
| SiteBar | A free online bookmarking manager. It is open source software, mainly funded by authors' donations. |
| We Heart It | An image-based social network for inspiring images. |
| Plurk | A free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 210 text characters in length (previously 140). |
| Scoop.it | A content curation website that lets businesses and professionals to research and publish content. |
| Flipboard | A content aggregator website that allows users to share, group, and collect content from multiple sources. |
Defunct sites
| Name | Description |
| BookmarkSync | |
| CiteULike | A web service that allowed users to save and share citations to academic papers. |
| Clipmarks | a Delicious-like social bookmarking service, bought by Clipboard in 2012.[2] |
| Connotea | discontinued service on March 12, 2013. |
| Delicious | The site was bought by Avos Systems on April 27, 2011, though was operated by Yahoo! until July 2011.[3] On June 1, 2017, Delicious was acquired by Pinboard, and the service will be discontinued. As of March 2018, the website is read-only. |
| Faves | as of January 2012, the service is no longer active. |
| Furl | web page clipping and archiving service, founded in 2003 and acquired by Diigo in 2009.[4] |
| Gnolia | formerly Ma.gnolia |
| My Web | as of November 2005 - Internet Expert |
| oneview | |
| Pocket | Established in 2007, for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. [5] |
| Simpy | formerly de.lirio.us |
| StumbleUpon | StumbleUpon was a discovery engine that finds and recommends web content to its users. It has moved to Mix |
| Trackle | Trackle offered a variety of information categories that users could keep tabs on and share like-interests with groups of users via Twitter, SMS, and Email. |
| Twine | Twine existed from 2007 to 2010. |
| Newsvine | Owned by NBC, Community-powered which hosts content from its users and syndicated content. Discontinued on October 1, 2017, redirected to NBCNEWS web page |
| Xmarks | Syncs bookmarks (folders & sub-folders) and profiles across different browsers and platforms. Includes sharing option and possibility to access bookmarks via web-based interface. On May 1, 2018, Xmarks was discontinued after being acquired by LastPass. |
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