Saturday, 3 March 2012

Sharing is fun


Sharing is always fun. Sharing updates, pictures, videos, bookmarks and scholarly articles with friends and relatives in the virtual world is possible in many ways. You can tag your Facebook friend in your pictures and you can send links of your web albums or blogs to your group of friends or you can share your favourites such as web pages, communities and similar content available on the web with others by sending them your Delicious or Digg community. 

The process of sharing online resources with others is called social bookmarking. It is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources available online. There are many sites which provide a variety of features for sharing.

Deli.cio.us, Digg, Tumblr and Stumble upon are a few popular social bookmarking sites which allow users to save web bookmarks and access them from any computer from anywhere. People who read articles on the Internet must have seen a sharing option available below the articles in almost all popular sites. If you stumble upon an interesting content on the Internet then you can share it with others by just clicking the share button.

Pinterest is a site that allows online users to organise and share with others  things they find interesting on the web.Registered users can browse pinboards made by others. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and be inspired by people who share your interests. For example: some interior designer from Australia loves to design houses in a particular fashion and she has saved several resources such as pictures, videos and text to get help for her work. You can get help from the same resources.

Flicker and Picasa are among a few photo-sharing websites where users can share their pictures without sending them as attachments. They just need to make an album on the site and send a URL (Universal Resource Locator) link to a group of people whom they want to send. Similarly, users can send videos through video-sharing websites like YouTube and metacafe.

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