Posts Tagged with ‘bookmarking’

I Share, Therefore I Am (Online)

Svetlana Gladkova

I use dozens of Internet-based services daily. What about you? I'm sure you use email, instant messengers, various social networks, blogs, etc. All of these advanced services are usually terribly disconnected. But developers of the new Share2me application decided to do a good deed and bridge the gaps between them.
To start using Share2me you will need to download a Firefox extension to add a Share2me button to your browser's navigation bar. After that you will create a contact list that [...]

Raw Sugar Closes - Part of Web 2.0’s Roadkill

Robert Sanzalone

Announcement: Social bookmarking company Raw Sugar closes its doors.
The last day in December was a sad day in the Web 2.0 world. Ofer Ben-Shachar’s ambitious project - Raw Sugar - closed down its operation.
If you never had the opportunity to try it (it still is in operation as of this posting), Raw Sugar attempted to be a much more potent form of del.icio.us by not only providing the ability to bookmark and share sites, but to also categorize those bookmarks [...]

The Evolution of Social Bookmarking

Paul Glazowski

Prior to its worldwide re-introduction (itList is where it all started, circa 1996) through the underground hit, Del.icio.us, social bookmarking was – and to some, it still is – an item that puzzled many. I know I was lost for quite some time on what it even meant. Now, just a couple of years since social bookmarking walked onto the main stage to help power you and I in getting the most out of the next-generation internet, it is essential [...]

Search With The Higher Power of AdaptiveBlue

Paul Glazowski

With a phenomenal charge of good press, and over 100,000 downloads to its credit, AdaptiveBlue is likely to be the most well-known and widely adopted Firefox extension in the 2006-7 technology cycle. At first glance it doesn’t seem like much to boast about – the demonstration on AdaptiveBlue’s homepage showcases its product cataloguing releases, with its most powerful traits left for you to discover them instead through the site’s tutorials, or through real-world experience – but it’s got plenty of [...]