Facebook adds sharing features
Submitted on October 29th, 2006 by admin
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While Facebook already has had some cool social features other sites like MySpace lack (like setting relationships to other people), it had been missing any kind of sharing capabilities, until now. Users can now share links, blog posts, videos, images, and more. There is even a browser bookmarklet to make it all easier. If you’re afraid of shares showing up on your Feed, don’t worry, it won’t as all shared items appear under a My Shares link in the sidebar. By the way, if you’re on Facebook, feel free to add me as a friend.
Yahoo! updates Bookmarks and it’s delicious
Submitted on October 29th, 2006 by admin
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Yahoo! Bookmarks has been around the Yahoo! stable for quite some time now, and those of you who may have tried it may remember that it was basically simply a list of web addresses which was tied to your Yahoo! account. Not anymore, as Yahoo!’s redesigned Bookmarks into a much more feature-filled product with a completely redesigned site, the addition of tags, site thumbnails, and the ability to move bookmarks into folders. If you haven’t yet tried Bookmarks, it may be worth a look.
Why Yahoo! owns three different social bookmarking sites makes no sense to me (if you’re wondering, they own del.icio.us, MyWeb, and the aforementioned Bookmarks, but I’m hoping there’s an actual strategy here. Bookmarks is a step in the right direction though.
Monitor downed sites with L8ter
Submitted on October 29th, 2006 by admin
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As your site grows in popularity you are bound to face some downtime with your site, particularly if you end up getting dugg or slashdotted. Once your site reaches its bandwidth limit, users will start seeing error messages and may end up forgetting about your site and not coming now. There is a new service cleverly called L8ter which should help out. If you find a site that’s down, but that you’d like to come back to, simply head over to L8ter and enter the link of the site as well as your e-mail address. L8ter will then query the site until it comes back up, then inform you, via e-mail so you can go back to it and check it out. Additionally, L8ter offers a Firefox extension called Monitor with L8ter, so you can monitor a site right from your browser. Like all great things, it’s 100% free.
Keep track of your social sites w/ Profilactic
Submitted on October 28th, 2006 by admin
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As this site and many others can attest, the number of social bookmarking (social anything really) sites has grown exponentially over the past couple of years, and it can often be difficult to keep track of all the accounts you’ve created (unless you’re like me and you start canceling subscriptions left and right). Fortunately, there is a way to keep track of all those accounts with the somewhat humorously named Profilactic.
Profilactic can keep track of any social site which provides RSS feeds or unique web addresses to its users including popular ones like YouTube, Flickr, Digg, and more. The site will also allow users to post content from their Profilactic account to their blogs or MySpace accounts. The site is still in beta, but should be launching soon so enter your e-mail address to stay up to date on the launch.
[Via Folksonomy]
Deliwin, for the del.icio.us freak in you
Submitted on July 20th, 2006 by admin
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Even though the world has seen a huge explosion in the number of social bookmarking sites, many of you are probably still using one the first, del.icio.us. I’ve often stated my discontent with how tedious it can be to quickly access bookmarks off del.icio.us sometimes unless you search for the right tools (I like Flock, for example). Deliwin is definitely one of those tools. Simply install this little tool and you’ll see an icon in your system tray which lets you quickly access your bookmarks via tag. Reload times and displayed tags are pretty customizable so you can have some fun trying to get it to conform to your needs. Deliwin is for Windows only, but OSX users can use its parents application, Delibar which has the same features. Both applications are free (donations accepted).
[Via Download Squad]
Habits of successful del.icio.us users
Submitted on December 19th, 2005 by admin
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del.icio.us is probably the most popular social bookmarking site on the web today (though not the best in my humble opinion) and you’ve probably played around with it at least once or twice. If so, check out this article over at SlackerManager.com entitled The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users which highlights some of the best features of the service and how to use them effectively. Whether you’re a regular del.icio.us user or not, the article is worthwhile reading.
Export Safari bookmarks to del.icio.us
Submitted on December 16th, 2005 by admin
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I’m not going to explain what del.icio.us is, because I’m sure all of you who read this site have heard us talk about it quite a bit (or have heard about it in the media since Yahoo! acquired them this month). If you’re a Mac user looking to start using the service, you might be looking for a quick and easy way to upload your Safari bookmarks into del.icio.us and you may have an answer in Safarilicious. With Safarilicious upload all bookmarks, only those which aren’t already on your del.icio.us account, automatically tag bookmarks based on what folder they’re stored in, and more. The application is free and requires Mac OSX 10.4.3 or higher and a del.icio.us account.
[Thanks, Mune!]
TagWorld, building the social web
Submitted on December 16th, 2005 by admin
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When I first heard about TagWorld, I wasn’t quite sure what it was because the name, to me, implied that it was yet another social bookmarking service. While TagWorld does offer bookmarking capabilities (but no import or export functionality as far as I can tell), it is much more than that offering a wide range of features which in many ways makes it seem more like MySpace, particularly with the recent addition of a music section to TagWorld.
So what can you expect from the service? A little bit of everything really. TagWorld offers a pretty nice blogging platform which includes themes and widgets for various types of media, the ability to upload and share pictures a la Flickr, one gig of free file storage, and of course, the aforementioned social bookmarking and music sections, all of which can be tagged, and all of which is free. If you tend to like sites that do a bit of everything, TagWorld might be something you will enjoy.
LookLater lets you privately bookmark anything
Submitted on December 1st, 2005 by admin
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Earlier today, I mentioned my displeasure with some del.icio.us features particularly its organization in my article on Delancey. Another gripe I have, is that it’s not easy to make bookmarks private unless you use the for: tag. Other social bookmarking sites allow you to make bookmarks private, but when I checked my inbox this morning, I got a tip on LookLater from its developer, Doug Martin, and was instantly curious.
LookLater offers many of the same features as social bookmarking sites, but, for the most part, bypasses the social part. Users can sign up for an account, then quickly start bookmarking through a bookmarklet. The greatest part of LookLater is that, unlike many other services, you’re not limited to bookmarking websites. You can select links in a site, images, and even text and bookmark it right to your page. For those of you who’d still like to share bookmarks, LookLater does integrate with del.icio.us. You can view a Flash demo of how it works at the Demo page.
Delancey, an AJAX interface to del.icio.us
Submitted on December 1st, 2005 by admin
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I used del.icio.us quite a bit for some time, but became pretty disillusioned by the user interface. Fortunately, I got an e-mail pointing me to Delancey which makes browsing through all your del.icio.us bookmarks a much more pleasant experience. Delancey is done completely in AJAX so searching and sorting through your tags is nearly instantaneous, and unlike del.icio.us, Delancey keeps track of how many times you’ve clicked on a bookmark, which could be useful to track your surfing habits.
One nice thing about Delancey is that you don’t even need to log into to see your bookmarks. Simply enter your username in the form at the bottom and Delancey will present you with a list of your tags. Click on a tag, and you’ll see your bookmarks. If you want to be the only person who can edit the bookmarks, you can click on the Claim button, and enter your del.icio.us password. Additionally, Delancey offers permalinks for each tag which really makes it useful beyond social bookmarking and as a way to use del.icio.us to keep backups of your bookmarks. I’ve been playing around with it for the past few minutes and definitely like it a lot more than del.icio.us.
