What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking, which means it is designed to allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser. This has several advantages.

First, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer.

Second, you can share your bookmarks publicly, so your friends, coworkers, and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration, or anything else. (Note that you can also mark bookmarks on some as private -- only viewable by you -- if you like.)

Third, you can find other people on respective social bookmarking website who have interesting bookmarks and add their links to your own collection. Everyone on del.icio.us chooses to save their bookmarks for a reason. You have access to the links that everyone wants to remember. You can see whether two people have chosen to remember a link, or whether it was useful enough for a thousand people to remember -- which may help you find things that are useful for you, too.

All of these sites are free to use but do require you to register. Once you have registered you can begin bookmarking.

Each of the sites works slightly differently so use the links below to find out which service best suits your needs.

You can find out more about social bookmarking on Wikipedia.

• Wikipedia article on social bookmarking

Investment Map offers following bookmarking services:

Del.icio.us

• To register, go to: http://del.icio.us/register
• For more information: http://del.icio.us/about

Digg

• To register, go to: http://digg.com/register
• For more information: http://digg.com/about

Reddit

• To register, go to: http://reddit.com/login
• For more information: http://reddit.com/help/faq

StumbleUpon

• To register, go to: http://www.stumbleupon.com/sign_up.php
• For more information: http://www.stumbleupon.com/about.html

Once an article is linked back to one of these sites, other users can then read it as well as post comments and related links. Instead of a search engine, you can find interesting links through a site's community of users, thereby transforming navigation of the Internet into a "social" experience.

We encourage everyone to visit the sites listed above to learn more about their Social Bookmarking features. Each offers a similar but distinct interface to fulfil your net navigation needs. So start sharing!