Social BookMark traffic

Ask Jeeves is a popular search engine known for turning up just the stuff you’re looking for. Ask Jeeves also has a social bookmarking site called “Mystuff.” It allows you to store your saved sites on their server and share links with other users.

With Mystuff, you can keep your stuff organized in different folders and files, like you would on your computer. The search options make it easy and convenient to retrieve the information later. You can upload sites saved to your computer or web browser to Ask Jeeves so they can be accessed by any computer anywhere.
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CiteULike is a social bookmarking site oriented toward academics who want to save important information online. You can save and share academic papers and the search engine allows you to find information you need when you’re doing research. Your CiteULike account is available from any computer and works on any browser.

When you’re writing a paper, you have to sift through so many resources to find what you need on the internet, and CiteULike offers an easier way to do it. It takes lots of the work out of citing your sources as well.

When you save a site, it automatically saves all the details of the site, so you don’t have to worry about writing your own description and tags. You can also use programs like BibTeX or Endnote to export your links and save them in your bibliography. This means that if you are writing a research paper, you can simply choose the links you used, and it will save the source in your bibliography. This gets rid of lots of the headache of citing your sources.
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Backflip offers your own personalized webpage where you can save all your favorite links and search for sites that are interesting to you. On your page, Backflip lets you save your top ten sites, the ones you look at all the time, in an easy to find place. You can create folders and do your own personalized searches to find pretty much anything you’ve looked at before.
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Blinklist gives you your own website with your bookmarks, that you can organize and personalize however you want. It also has a button that goes onto your browser, so that you can “blink” any website that you like. The website makes the claim that it’s easier than clicking on your “add to favorites,” and I guess they would be right.

Blinklist is really easy to use, so that if you just want to save your favorite sites, all you have to do is blink what you like. There are more complex options, and of course, you can share your blinks with your friends as well. Users create profiles so that you can see what other people are blinking, and the site ranks the most blinked and most popular contributors. All of these functions are user-friendly.
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Just as the name implies, Technorati is the highest of the high tech. It’s not just a social bookmarking site, it’s a great tool for web developers and bloggers. You can keep track of your bookmarks and share them with the world. You can also get more out of Technorati’s special features.

Technorati’s main focus is blogs. You can use it to find out what people are saying about your products or websites. It offers up to date information on a wide variety of subjects, but mostly caters to high tech products.

One of the bonuses of Technorati is that it’s all in real-time. As soon as somebody says something, it’s there for you to read. You can subscribe to topics, tags and users in order to monitor the online conversations that affect you.
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Like many social bookmarking sites, Looklater was made by one guy as an attempt to save his own bookmarks. Eventually, he decided to extend the service to everybody. Looklater’s site has a blog that exhaustively documents the whole development of the site.

Looklater is a free service that is constantly backed up offsite so you don’t have to worry about losing your bookmarks. It will always be available, and has grown by leaps and bounds since it was first started. The code was written in PHP, the framework is MVC and the backend is MySQL.

Does that confuse you? No need to worry, because Looklater wasn’t designed for tech geeks. It was designed for you and me, so it is simple and easy-to-use. You don’t have to download any software. The site gives you a “bookmarklet,” which is a button that is saved on your browser. Click it and you’ve saved a site or image to your bookmarks.
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