Social bookmarking allows users to easily bookmark and share web pages with friends. It provides benefits to both users and businesses. For users, it makes bookmarking and reminding themselves of pages simple. For businesses, it leads to more external links, faster search engine indexing, higher search rankings, and increased traffic. Social bookmarking services like Delicious and StumbleUpon allow sharing bookmarks, calendar events, and RSS feeds. This new form of social networking enabled by bookmarking provides opportunities for content enrichment and personalized advertising.
5. Social aggregators
¡ñ Links
¡ñ Del.icio.us
¡ñ Stumble upon
¡ñ Events
¡ñ Facebook calendars
¡ñ Google calendar
¡ñ Updates
¡ñ RSS readers
¡ñ All above on many others
6. Example: Bookmarking
¡ñ User finds a page interesting and bookmars it
¡ñ Friends get notified of this bookmark which
takes them to our page
7. Example: Events (Facebook)
¡ñ Events can be published on Facebook via API
¡ñ User finds event on Facebook and marks his
participation
¡ñ Friends get notifed and can also mark their
participation
¡ñ Facebook offers a whole set of other features
that can attract groups of users
8. Example: Events (Calendar)
¡ñ Users can add events to their own Google
Calendar
¡ñ This way they can be reminded of the event
¡ñ They can also easely share events with other
users
9. Example: RSS
¡ñ Users can subscribe to RSS and follow updates
on the site
¡ñ RSS would be very useful if focused by artist
or venue
¡ñ This could be meaningful in connection to artist
and venue page (Landing pages)
¡ñ RSS is very general format which can be read
by a lot of web services
11. Content enrichment
¡ñ Enhance content with other social tools
¡ñ Last.FM, YouTube channels, Yahoo videos
¡ñ Adding metadata from these services (genre,
similar artists)
12. Conclusion
With social networks internet changed. New type
of business promotion emerged. This is some
kind of personalized advertising.