Sloog - If Social Bookmarking Meets a Virtual Community, Is It 2.0 Squared?

Web 2.0 is nearly out of new ways to bookmark and tag sites, so where would a company wanting to innovate in that area go? According to StartupSquad, they'd head to the virtual world of Second Life .

Sloog is a social bookmarking app that allows you to tag favorite places in Second Life, share them with the rest of the Sloog community, and easily access your favorite places in a tagged organizational schema that makes sense to you.

The application is a Second Life HUD which can be worn or attached to your UI. Once you download the HUD at the Mosi-Mosi offices (do your own search; I used the coordinates they provided in their FAQ and ended up in a casino that had no exit) and install it, it appears on your Second Life screen as a small green box in the upper left corner. Tagging your favorite areas is as easy as chatting; simply send a command to tag via the chat box and add your tags; Sloog does the rest for you. Your new tags appear immediately on the Sloog site unless you use the button for privacy mode.

The app itself is pretty slick, and their offices in Second Life are very pretty, even if I did have a bit of a tough time finding them. And I have to admit that I do like having the ability to tag since regular bookmark adds in Second Life seem kludgy and unfriendly. However, I'm not the biggest fan of Second Life, finding it fairly boring, so I don't spend a lot of time using it. Mainly I log in to research articles, like this one. For anyone who wishes that they could port their del.icio.us bookmark abilities to Second Life, you just got your wish.