‘Social Bookmarking’ Site for Higher Education Makes Debut

For the tech-savvy, social bookmarking is old hat: Log on to a Web site like Delicious.com, save a few links, and share them with a network of friends. It’s a tool that some students and faculty members have used in the classroom for years. Now a software developer hopes that a new social-bookmarking site, designed for higher education, will become an indispensable tool for academics. Critics, however, say limiting a networks’s membership in that way actually limits the power of bookmarking and defeats its purpose. Brainify.com, the brainchild of Murray Goldberg, creator of WebCT course-management software, was quietly started in beta form last week, after more than a year in development. Like other social-bookmarking sites, it lets users save, share, and rate bookmarks on the site’s network.