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Allison Kipta on 14 Aug 08Social bookmarking allows individuals to share resources and links. Del.icio.us and Digg are two prominent examples. Digg and del.icio.us are surprisingly effective at capturing the zeitgeist within a group of web users. Bookmarks grow in popularity based on how frequently they are saved. Bookmarking serves as an information filter - if thousands of individuals found a particular resource to be valuable (or at least of interest), it can be assumed to be of greater significance or originality.