The Best Open Source Social Bookmarking Platforms

Social bookmarking has become highly popular in this tech era. It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to web browser, one saves them to the web. And, because bookmarks are online, one can easily share them with friends.

One can not only save favorite websites and send them to friends, but can also look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag. Most social bookmarking sites allow browsing through the items based on most popular, recently added, or belonging to a certain category like shopping, technology, politics, blogging, news, sports, and others. In fact, social bookmarking sites are being used as  surrogate search engines.

There are some useful social bookmarking platforms available over the web. They are ---

Scuttle

Scuttle is an open source software for creating social bookmarking sites like One can create a social bookmarking site within minutes using scuttle for personal or community use. Scuttle has several AJAX features and it generates an RSS feeds.

Pligg

Pligg was created as a social networking CMS. While most content management systems are designed for only a handful of authors, Pligg CMS was designed to manage a site with an unlimited number of authors. All of these registered users are in control of the website's content. It is a user driven CMS that relies on independent authors' content and participation to manage news articles. 

The user interface gives visitors a reason to come back to a website by making them decide on the site’s content and giving them the chance to build a social network. Pligg is very similar to Digg. 

Laicos

Laicos is a social bookmarking website development application. It uses asp.net and MySQL.

ContARTE     

ContARTE is a social bookmarking multi-user engine which is used to build social bookmarking sites.

GetBoo

It is an uncomplicated Web 2.0 social bookmarking system with tags and folders. One can import and export bookmarks from Firefox, IE, Mozilla, and Netscape. It has brilliant admin section, translations, groups, book marklets, firefox extension and RSS feeds. Users can keep links to their favorite news, blogs, music, games, and more on GetBoo-powered sites and access them from any computer on the web.

Community News

This uses social marking and Bayesian techniques to provide periodic postings to blogs. Users can vote for or against RSS sources to increase the chances that the source is used again. 

Akarru

Akarru is a social bookmarking engine wherein users posts links and promote links to front page using voting system. 

Bookmark4U
Bookmark4U is a web-server application based on Apache, Php and MySQL. It provides a smooth bookmarking facility. 

Taggly

Taggly is written with usability and scalability. 

Unalog

This bookmarking software is written Python programming language. One can get an account and add links, create and join groups.