why social bookmarking are important

The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the pack, including Yahoo MyWeb, appears to be substantially behind. Will they catch up? In this post we attempt to answer that question.

We also take a look at how social bookmarking has evolved since del.icio.us. (even del.icio.us itself has evolved a lot!). We compare the features and approaches of the different companies, to see which has gained popularity and what has become the norm in this space.
A short history of social bookmarking

The current social web era started with del.icio.us and the advent of social bookmarking. The simple concept of a tag has turned our interactions with the web upside down. The idea of being able to store your bookmarks online, share them with everyone and see what others have bookmarked - triggered the sequence of events that resulted in today's rich and social web ecosystem.
Popular Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is being seen as a cost effective method of augmenting distribution of content, branding and image building and marketing.

Some of the top social bookmarking websites include StumbleUpon, http://del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks and Furl. Reddit and Dig are two social news websites, which are also considered as social bookmarking sites. The idea is to create positive content about your services, products or overall business and then optimizing the content on these social bookmarking websites.

Popular Social Bookmarking Sites include:

30daytags
BlinkBits
BlogHop
BlogLot
BlogMarks
BlogMemes
BlogPulse
BmAccess
browsr
Fark
CiteULike
clipclip
clipmarks
Complore
Connectedy
Connotea
de.lirio.us
del.icio.us
digg
diigo
fantacular
Feedmarker
Feed Me Links
Furl
Gibeo
GoKoDo
Google Notebook
IceRocket
Kaboodle
linkaGoGo
linkfilter.net
linkroll
Listible
Lookmarks
ma.gnolia
Netvouz
Newsvine
openBM
RawSugar
reddit
Rojo
Rollyo
Scuttle
Shadows
Simpy
Sitetagger
Smarking
Spurl
StumbleUpon
taghop
TailRank
Ticklr
unalog
Yahoo My Web 2.0
yoonoo