Pandia.com has written a comprehensive article on the best social bookmarking tools that both bloggers and blog readers can use to organize their online information. The article based its rankings on a specific set of criteria, emphasizing accessibility and ease of use.

Pandia’s criteria:

The best social bookmarking tools should include the following:

• A large amount of users to boost social networking
• Lots of FAQ and help pages to inform new users
• Good import and export possibilities so users can update, change and switch bookmarks from other browsers and bookmarking tools
• The inclusion of RSS feeds and tags
• The inclusion of a blog with needs and updates relevant to the service’s functionality

Pandia’s best bookmarking tools based on this criteria were:

Furl

LookSmart’s Furl was commended for its clear tab system, a search tool that goes through your bookmarks, drop down menus and useful edit tool for storing information. Furl also lets you take a copy of the whole website when you bookmark it.

Netvouz

Netvouz offers users the option of sorting their bookmarks by ranking, date and name as well as the use of tag lists and tag clouds. You can also use Netvouz to store groups of tags in folders at the top of the page, as well as a ‘Hotpicks’ folder for your most frequently viewed bookmarks.

Del.icio.us

This service has a massive community that allows users to share their bookmarks with a wide audience. You can view your bookmarks as a tag list and a tag cloud that can be sorted according to frequency and name.

Ma.gnolia

Ma.gnolia sports a sleek design, helpful tutorials and strong community tools that list groups, contacts and discussions. Like Furl, Ma.gnolia also features a search tool and the ability to copy entire web pages in your bookmarks. Being able to rate your bookmarks is also a helpful and useful feature.

Bluedot

Bluedot is geared toward adding contacts and friends to your network and sharing your bookmarks. You can also edit your own personal profile here, like on Myspace and Facebook. You also have the ability to comment on yours or other people’s ‘dots’. To bolster your list of contacts, Bluedot allows you to import friends from your Yahoo, Gmail, MSN and AOL networks.

So there are the top 5 social bookmarking services, according to Pandia.com, that stand out among the many services to be found online. Here at Apollo Media, we believe the use of social bookmarking is an important attribute of social media in general, making the blogosphere a more interactive and accessible frontier for business, entertainment and education.