Social Bookmarking

I guess I've been living under a rock for a while, or maybe this is an indication that I'm getting old and am no longer "with it..."

I just discovered the phenomena of Social Bookmarking.  I guess this is somehow related to Social Networking, which I also don't understand.

Anyway, there are loads of sites that focus on this including: 

http://www.blinkbits.com

http://www.blinklist.com

http://blogmarks.net

http://co.mments.com

http://www.connotea.org

http://del.icio.us

http://de.lirio.us

http://digg.com

http://cgi.fark.com

http://feedmelinks.com

http://www.furl.net

http://www.linkagogo.com

http://ma.gnolia.com

http://www.newsvine.com

http://www.netvouz.com

http://www.rawsugar.com

http://reddit.com

http://www.scuttle.org

http://www.shadows.com

http://www.simpy.com

http://smarking.com

http://www.spurl.net

http://tailrank.com

http://wists.com

http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com

WLW, in its most recent beta, has added support for tagging, which should help more easily integrate social bookmarking into more blogs.  I think I'll have to spend some more time playing with the feature, as I'd like to be able to automatically insert multiple tags as illustrated by This post on GeekCapital.com, but for a start, here's one: 

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Posted by David at November 30, 2006 10:21 AM