Social Bookmarking - New Feature

[ScubaToys Larry]

As you go through the site now, you may have noticed some new icons that show up on posts and threads. They look like this:



They are part of what is known as "Social Bookmarking". It's a way for you to set up an account with one of these sites, Digg, Furl, Del.icio.us, or technorati.

See, what if you have some favorite bookmarks, but you get over to your friends house, or you are traveling, or your computer crashes.. How will you find your favorites?? With any one of these sites, you can set up an account, and then post your favorite bookmarks - and log in from anywhere to view them.

By using the small icons at the bottom of any post, you can bookmark that post. If you want to bookmark the whole thread, simply choose the Linkback drop down, then click on your favorite bookmark site:



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Want to share some of your favorite Bookmarks? Check out what other people have bookmarked? This is a great way to do it!

So click on the icon, set up an account, and when you have a post you want to add to your bookmarks - just click and you're done!

If you go to the home page of ScubaToys.com, you will see that we have set up the Digg and Del.icio.us links there as well... so if you get the chance - go join, and bookmark our pages! Then it will be easy for you to share them with your friends!

Check it out and let us know if you like this new feature!

[jeniferlopaz]

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
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Jenifer