SocialBookmarking

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Social Bookmarking is a form of SocialCollaboration, where the peers share

their work for discovering and tagging valuable webpages and
also their results in form of publicly accessible bookmarks.

This means, they give each other a

(currently) free service of searching, tagging and storing and
share their good(ie)s, i.e. collections of bookmarks freely.

Currently all service providers (known to the author) offer their Bookmarking Servers as a free service.

Read more on this topic in: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking Wikipedia:SocialBookmarking]

The problem with this kind of a "free bubble" is, that it might not stay free for all the time. The providers refinance their free service with advertisement or they credit it on the speculation, that at a later time, they can sell their complex hardware/software/service package to a big player like Google.

Now this doesn't solve the fundamental problem, but escalates it ownly.

As soon as Social Bookmarking Communities and their technology evolve to such a level of sophistication, that advertisement becomes superfluous, the bubble will burst and the illusion of a free for all paradise dissolves abruptly.

-- FridemarPache

Discussion:

What do you suggest to do? Ride it to hell or prepare a soft landing? -- [fridemar]

FreedomHosting is meant to solve this exact problem. -- PatrickAnderson