3 cool Image bookmarking sites
Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
Social bookmarking applications have been a well-adopted starting point for many people to easily store, share and catalogue content. Applications like Delicious (recently redesigned), ma.gnolia.com, stumbleupon, digg and reddit allow users to share and store web pages in different ways.
What about just bookmarking images? Many of us see images we like and either bookmark the whole page or save the image – ReadWriteWeb have highlighted what they think are the 3 best Image Bookmarking sites.
Vi.sualize.us is like the Delicious for images, there is a Firefox bookmarking plugin available and each user has their own RSS feed so friends and fans can subscribe.
Ffffound! was one of the first image bookmarking services available, the only problem is that this service functions by invitation only. Unique to this service is that the more images you bookmark, the more the service will recommend personalised images for a more dynamic experience.
We Heart It is similar to Ffffound but seems to have great images, social tagging, and commenting, which Ffffound! happens to lacks. We Heart It provides a bookmarklet for saving images and videos from Vimeo or Youtube.
I never thought of bookmarking images, but I can see how neat it would be to share some really interesting images. Social bookmarking is certainly expanding to new horizons!
Social bookmarking is a worthy and powerful resource to utilize in marketing your site. By utilizing a automated bookmarking tool, a consistent promotion method and by having great unique original content you are able to maximise the gains from social bookmarking.