Social Bookmarking Tools Comparison

World Wide Web has wealth of information within sea of interesting sites. Web surfing is now common habit for urbanites. Checking emails, messages in social networking sites, video chatting, make pc to phone call, playing online games, writing blog posts, watching streaming videos and listening to online radios. Existence of social bookmarking service helps us to save the Internet addresses of our favorite sites web sites and blogs, so we not forget about great web sites that we stumbled upon.

Online social bookmarks managers like Furl.com, Delicious.com, Diigo.com and built-in bookmarks manager within Internet browser like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome are quick, intuitive and convenient to use, which helps us remember; after a long search, the address of that crucial web page. These services help us to return to the pages without tediously typing the URL or tediously do the searching with search engine and through thousand of pages.

Using Internet browser, you can bookmark the sites. In Internet Explorer, you can save those urls in favorite. In Mozilla Firefox, you just have to click on the bookmark button. However these web browser applications have severe limitations. Such as, if you use several browsers then you have to manage the bookmark system in each one. Among important features these web browsers lacking with are ability to delete duplicate bookmarks, synchronization of bookmarks between different PCs and searching feature.

Specialist web services called online social bookmark managers are growing like wildfire on the Internet. Now there are even Pligg sites. Such sites like StumbleUpon.com, Digg.com and Sphinn.com become increasingly popular among Internet citizens. In those sites, you can share you favorite with others and vote for most popular bookmarks. The obvious difference between web-based bookmark organizers and standalone bookmark managers within Internet browsers is the way the database is accessed and location of saved bookmark database. Online social bookmark organizers help us to access to our saved favorite sites within any computer whenever we are. Unlike the standalone ones, it save your bookmarks within the hard disk of a computer only. But this problem can be solved by saving your bookmarks record within portable drives.

However there are several disadvantages using online social bookmark sites. There is risk of losing all the bookmarks when sites are close down. There is probability of unauthorized access to your online bookmarks database by hackers. So it is advisable to save your bookmarks on several online services for backup.