Social Bookmarking and Crowdsourced Curation

Crowdsourcing isn't just for breaking news. In fact, the success of social media as a whole relies on the crowd to gather and archive a potpourri of information collectively so the very best online content rises to the top where the rest of us can find it. Here's a primer on how social bookmarking works and why it's become such a crowd pleaser.

A Social Bookmarking Primer

The Internet has more than 15 billion web pages—that's a lot of content to keep track of. How many times have you found a useful resource only to navigate away from the page and then never be able to find it again? That's why web browsers come equipped with a bookmark menu feature that lets you easily save and organize web pages in the ...

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