Bookmark sharing and social bookmarking services do a decent job of saving and sharing bookmarks, but they are lacking in tagging and other facilities that make them useful for knowledge management. In addition, the centralized nature of these systems presents risks like data loss and makes it difficult to collaborate with colleagues.

Many people today work from multiple computers and/or devices: desktops at home and work, tablets and smart-phones. Moving bookmarks between them is tedious and often results in lost or misplaced links. Many people use social bookmarking services to synchronise their bookmarks across different locations. These can be web applications that hook into the browsers and provide a unified tagging system, or they may be standalone applications that store the bookmarks on the cloud.

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Some of these have a strong social component, with users commenting on and following each other’s bookmarks. This facilitates collaboration and also contributes to a more efficient knowledge management process. Examples include Reddit, Pinterest and Blixem.

Some of these are focused on allowing users to import and export bookmarks for ease of copying between accounts. Others are more targeted towards the enterprise, with features like private collections and public bookmarks. A good example is Bookmark Llama, which allows for seamless and continuous bookmark sharing between Chrome accounts via automatic syncing. This makes it the preferred option for ongoing bookmark sharing. Other tools, such as Method 3 in the blog post, offer a manual approach that can be effective for a one-off transfer between accounts, but Bookmark Llama is more efficient and simpler for ongoing bookmark sharing.