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So what is a social bookmarking really all about? The following report includes some fascinating information about Health Social Bookmarking Sites –info you can use, not just the old stuff they used to tell you.

Health Social Bookmarking Sites continues to be one of the driving forces of this evolving web, and as we forge ahead towards the semantic web (otherwise dubbed Web 3.0) it will continue to play an important role and prove an invaluable resource for independent publishers, businesses and even casual web surfers.

Health Social Bookmarking Sites is all about labeling the web, making it easier to find the content that you’re looking for by passing on what you’ve found. The labels applied to web sites are commonly known as tags, and over time a kind of taxonomy grows, whereby persistent tags help information to be aggregated and mined for information.

Where a taxonomy was, however, the product of specialists carefully categorizing items within their area of specialism, Health Social Bookmarking Sites produces instead what has been termed a folksonomy.

A taxonomy makes claims to objectivity - it is the work of an expert scientifically cataloging the world around him. Taxonomies grew out of the natural history tradition in the sciences, and as such are imposed from above, as a top-down means of categorization.

Full article at: Health Social bookmarking

Tags: Family Health & Fitness

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