Tools Help Companies Find, Share Information

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to easily locate that online article you saved last week — among the hundreds of other files you’ve saved? Wouldn’t it be nice to know what articles your boss thought were interesting enough to save on the same topic?

For those whose jobs require working with lots of information, finding it and sharing it remain big headaches. And locating information you’ve found and filed is often harder than discovering it in the first place.

Now some companies, including International Business Machines Corp., are tackling the issue with new products based on a technology called social bookmarking that has been gaining adherents among the tech cognoscenti.

By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal.

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