Social Bookmarking allows us to take one of our favorite browser tools and make it public. Social Bookmarking offers a way for people to share their bookmarks, mainly through websites such as Delicious. It works on a 'tag' system, in which people associate certain words or phrases with each link or resource. This is the organizational system in which people search through bookmarks. An advantage to this is that humans have a better understanding of concepts of a page, vs. a computer trying to pick out key words to use to describe a website. The words picked out by humans may be better at describing what the website is about, and therefore easier to find what you're looking for. But, it's hard to make tags uniform. For example, someone may capitalize a word, or misspell a word, and they're not always included in the search.
Social Bookmarking is a useful tool, especially if you're collaborating with others. I could see tools such as Delicious being used in psychology, especially in research. If researchers are working together, but have a bunch of different online resources, social bookmarking allows them to easily share this information, and also allows a database to find similar or new websites.
Here is a link to delicious.com. You can sign up through the site or through your Yahoo account, and start bookmarking. Delicious offers a button to install on your browser to easily and quickly bookmark sites you're on.
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