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John is looking for Web site design patterns. Here's my contribution:

Pattern type: Site
Pattern name: Social Bookmarks
Also known as: Folksonomy, Shared Favorites
Examples: del.icio.us, digg, reddit, furl, jots

Description:

A shared collection of links (URLs) that, unlike in traditional categorized lists (taxonomies), the user can freely assign keywords or "tags" to each bookmark.

Comments:

Some collaborative lists are restricted to a certain subject area such as technology, while the majority are general in scope. Most bookmarking sites provide features that display link relevance by popularity (weighted lists or tag clouds) and/or front page (most popular) bookmarks, RSS feeds for each tag (and often user) and a Web service API that allows developers to tap into the datasets stored by the system.